Heart of Jesus (Hassel)
The Herz Jesu Kirche Hassel is the Catholic parish church in the St. Ingbert district of Hassel .
history
The church was built in 1928/29 with the help of the Hassel population. The bricklaying and concrete work for the church and parsonage was carried out by the Peter Gross assembly group from St. Ingbert, Wilhelm Schulte II ( Neustadt ad W. ) and Hubert Groß ( Speyer ) acted as architects, and the construction management was head building officer Hans Merl (St. Ingbert) . Red sandstone from the nearby Kahlenberg served as building material . On June 23, 1929, the church was consecrated by Bishop Ludwig Sebastian , in that year Hassel was elevated to a parish.
On November 9, 1944, the church windows and the roof of the church were badly damaged by three bombs in the immediate vicinity, but repairs began as early as April 1945. In 1956 five new bells were installed. In 1963 a new high altar and two side altars, the communion bench, the ambo, the baptismal font, the altar cross and the figures of Mary and Joseph were erected. At Christmas 1964 an illuminated crib from the same workshop was added. In 1988 a new organ with 23 registers by the master organ builder Klaus Scherpf (Speyer) was installed. The windows have also been redesigned.
Rectory
The rectory was built at the same time as the church and is connected to it by a covered bridge.
Furnishing
The interior continues the functional line of the overall structure. The colors white and gray dominate.
The altar is 2.6 meters long and 1.5 meters wide and contains relics of the martyrs Florentius and Aquilinus . Like the two side altars, the baptismal font and the communion bench, it is made of marble from the Aosta Valley .
The 2.5 meter high altar cross, the Way of the Cross and the figures of Our Lady of Sorrows and Joseph of Nazareth are made of limewood and were made in the workshop of Alfred Zwink ( Oberammergau ).
The enamel pictures of the gold-colored tabernacle were designed by the Dominican sister Moneta Schwab from St. Ingbert.
The church windows were designed by Michael Mannel from Ettlingen and show biblical motifs.
organ
The organ of the church was built in 1988 by the company Wolfgang Scherpf Orgelbau Owner: Klaus Scherpf ( Speyer ). The instrument, with 23 registers , is set up on a gallery and has a free-standing console . The wind chests are mechanical sliding chests with an electrical register action .
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : 16 electronic typesetting combinations, pleno, tutti
Bells
There are five bells:
- The Sacred Heart Bell (tone: h °, weight: 3,010 kg) bears the inscription “St. Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us! "
- The Joseph bell (tone: d ′, weight: 1,740 kg) bears the inscription “St. Joseph, pray for us! "
- The bell of the Mother of God (sound: f sharp ′, weight: 850 kg) bears the inscription “St. Our Lady, pray for us! "
- The Barbara bell (tone: a ′, weight: 640 kg) bears the inscription “St. Barbara, please for us! "
- The Archangel Michael Bell (tone: h ′, weight: 470 kg) bears the inscription “St. Archangel Michael, pray for us! "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Organ of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Catholic) ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Information page of the Orgeln im Saarland website , accessed on July 1, 2012
Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '59.76 " N , 7 ° 9' 34.81" O