Huguenot Church (Ludweiler)
The Huguenot Church is a church of the Evangelical Parish Völklingen-Warndt in Ludweiler , a district of Völklingen in Saarland . The parish is assigned to the Saar-West parish of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.
history
The Huguenot Church , built in 1786 according to plans by architect and builder Balthasar Wilhelm Stengel ( Saarbrücken ), son of Friedrich Joachim Stengel , was the fourth Protestant church at the time of its construction, although Ludweiler was only founded in 1604. The reasons for the repeated church building are v. a. based on the political and denominational conditions of the 17th century.
The first church was built shortly after Ludweiler was founded by Huguenots in 1604. It was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War , which lasted from 1618 to 1648 . From 1660, a second church was built by refugees from Metz , but it was destroyed again in 1685. The reason for this was the repeal of the Edict of Nantes on October 18, 1685 by the French King Louis XIV. Previously, the county of Nassau-Saarbrücken , to which Ludweiler also belonged, had been annexed by France in 1680 as part of the reunification policy . The repeal of the edict that granted religious freedom led to attacks by French troops and the complete destruction of the church.
The third church building was rebuilt in 1720 in the form of a simple rectangular building in the same place, but a few decades after its completion it was already in such poor structural condition that even two renovation attempts could not change anything that the current church building was finally built in 1786 . The construction time for this was eleven months.
In the years 1864 to 1872 the church underwent a restoration . The church tower was built from 1876 to 1877, and the architect Carl Benzel (Saarbrücken) was responsible for the design. Further renovation and expansion measures took place in the years 1939/40 and 1945 to 1954.
A major expansion, combined with a restoration, took place from 1959 to 1961 based on designs by the architect Waltraud Winz (Völklingen). A transept and a sacristy were added. As part of the EU funding program LEADER (French: Liaison entre actions de développement de l'économie rurale , English: connection between actions for the development of the rural economy ), the tower room was restored in 2009.
architecture
The church building is a baroque hall church , in which, in contrast to the previous buildings, only bricks were used as building material instead of mainly wood . The later before the main portal set steeple , one roof skylights replaced, has neo-Gothic and neo-Romanesque in style characteristics.
The interior in the simple Reformed architectural style is determined by a U-shaped gallery and the pulpit altar opposite .
Furnishing
The church's furnishings include concrete glass windows from Chartres on both sides of the transept, which represent crosses that are shrinking in perspective and symbolize the expulsion of the Huguenots all over the world. Other windows are u. a. Lead glass windows without motif with bright rectangular windows from 1939/40, windows with ornaments reminiscent of the French Reformed tradition, as well as a lead glass window of the old Catholic Sacred Heart Church of Ludweiler, which was demolished in 1999 and can be seen in the restored little tower room. Above the portal there are two windows from 1950 that were made by the J. Wenzel glazier (Saarbrücken).
On the front wall to the right of the pulpit is a Huguenot cross , and to the left of it a sgraffito drawing by Wolfram Huschens (Saarbrücken), which depicts the port city of Aigues-Mortes , in which the Calvinist Marie Durand for 38 years because of her faith in the Tour de Constance ( Tower of Fortitude ) was held. In connection with the Huguenot cross, Durand's slogan "Resistez" is still a symbol of faith.
At the top of the church tower there has been an iron Huguenot cross decorated with gold leaf since 1969 instead of a weathercock .
Other pieces of equipment include a pewter chalice and jug from the 17th century, which were brought to Ludweiler by Huguenots, and an 18th century tombstone of the de Guiffardierre family.
organ
The organ was built in 1857 by the Stumm brothers ( Rhaunen / Hunsrück ) and installed in the church from April 24 to May 14, 1857 by the older of the fifth generation of the Stumm brothers, Friedrich Stumm. Pastor König from Sulzbach / Saar was responsible for examining the finished work, which was favorable and praiseworthy . The disposition at that time was as follows:
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In 1950 the organ was completely rebuilt by the Oberlinger company ( Windesheim ), in which the Stumm's game mechanics were replaced by an electropneumatic game control and an electric game table was connected outside the organ . Furthermore, a second manual was built and the disposition was expanded to 18 registers . The modifications, which also affected the wind supply , led to a reduction in the sound image to what was known as the "Middle Rhine organ sound", which was modern at the time. In 1994 the instrument had to be decommissioned because it was in a desolate condition.
In 1998 the decision was made to restore the organ from the point of view of monument preservation and to restore it to its original condition. The organ building workshop Rainer Müller ( Odernheim / Glan ) was responsible for this. As part of the restoration, the organ was expanded from 18 to 22 registers, which are divided into two manuals and pedal . The abrasive loading -instrument has a mechanical play and stop action .
The current disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
literature
- Marschall, Kristine: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland . Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 978-3-923877-40-9 , p. 666 .
Web links
- Evangelical parish Völklingen-Warndt
- Literature on Huguenot Church (Ludweiler) in the Saarland Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ^ Church districts of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland On: www.ekir.de, accessed on March 31, 2014.
- ↑ parishes on: www.evks-data.de ( Evangelical Saarland ), accessed March 31, 2014.
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments Mittelstadt Völklingen ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), accessed on March 31, 2014.
- ↑ a b c d e The Huguenot Church in Ludweiler-Warndt On: www.stumm-orgel-ludweiler.de, accessed on March 31, 2014.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Information on the Huguenot Church in Ludweiler at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on March 31, 2014.
- ↑ a b c d The Stumm organ of the Huguenot Church in Ludweiler On: www.stumm-orgel-ludweiler.de, accessed on March 31, 2014.
- ↑ a b c d Organ of the Huguenot Church in Ludweiler On: www.organindex.de, accessed on March 31, 2014.
Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 18.8 ″ N , 6 ° 48 ′ 29.2 ″ E