Clinic Church Homburg
The Klinikkirche Homburg is a hospital church in the south-western part of the hospital grounds of the Saarland University Hospital in Homburg . It is located in a small wooded area a little higher on a hill with no direct proximity to other buildings or roads. Inside the hospital, the building is listed under building number 55. The church offers a choir founded in the 1980s space for rehearsals and concerts that take place once a year at the end of the semester.
history
The church was built in 1906/09 together with the other oldest buildings in the clinic area, which was then called the Palatinate Sanatorium in Homburg , as a simultaneous church in the historicist style. The architect was the royal Bavarian building officer Heinrich Ullmann from Speyer .
Building description
The building is around 30 meters long and divided into a main aisle and a north aisle . The choir is asymmetrically offset from the main axis to the south and is located under the tower. The main nave has a barrel vault made of longitudinal wooden beams, the side aisle has a flat ceiling made of wood.
Furnishing
The side walls are plastered white, the wooden elements are painted a light ocher yellow. The window reveals and the partition arches of the columns between the two naves are also painted in color.
In the choir there are elaborate wall paintings in Art Nouveau style , for example frescoes in the apse of Mary with the Child, the Fourteen Holy Helpers and Anna, Petrus and Joseph. The icons of the four New Testament evangelists are immortalized in the apse arch. The man for the Gospel of Matthew , the lion for the Gospel of Mark - the bull for Luke - and the eagle for the Gospel of John . The dome is colored blue with the Pentecostal dove at its apex, from which broad golden rays emanate. From the church interior on the triumphal arch the verse “Come to me, all of you who are laborious and burdened” ( Matthew 11:28) can be read.
In the choir is the Catholic high altar , which is richly decorated and provided with tabernacles . To the left of the choir, on the front wall of the main nave, the Protestant altar stood in a gabled arched niche ( aedicula ) until the renovation in 1987/89 . Since then he has also been in the choir and is used as the main altar. At the old location of the evangelical altar stands the baptismal font that previously separated the two Christian centers of faith in this church. A sandstone ambo by Paul Schneider (1988) stands at the old location of the baptismal font .
The colorful, lively color scheme of the church fell victim to a uniform gray in the 1920s. With the renovation 60 years later, an attempt was made to restore the original tones.
organ
The first organ in the church, a single manual instrument with 8 registers , was built in 1909 by the organ builder GF Steinmeyer ( Oettingen ). In 1968 the organ had become unplayable due to damage from heating air, and was finally destroyed in a church break-in in 1971. In 1972 a single manual positive with 4 registers was set up by the organ builder Detlef Kleuker ( Brackwede ). In 1984 the Steinmeyer organ was broken off. The Kleuker organ was dismantled in 2006 and placed in the church of Katzenbach ( Association of Rockenhausen ). As a replacement, a Klais organ from 1908 from Elsdorf-Esch was installed by Peter Ohlert ( Kirkel ) in 2006, which was put into service on November 5, 2006. The instrument is single-manual and has 8 registers and pneumatic cone chests .
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literature
- Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: The churches in the Saar-Palatinate district. Saarbrücken 1987 ISBN 3-930843-23-4
- Religion concerns us 2/2005 in: Building a Church - Being a Church : Sacred Buildings, Bergmoser + Höller Verlag , 2005, ISSN 0936-5141
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Directions to the church (south above) (PDF; 159 kB), accessed on April 18, 2015.
- ^ Homburg Choir , accessed on April 18, 2015.
- ^ Homburg, Paul Schneider, Ambo , accessed on April 18, 2015.
- ↑ Organ of the simultaneous church of the university clinics ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. Info page of the Orgeln im Saarland website , accessed on April 18, 2015.
Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 20 ″ N , 7 ° 20 ′ 34 ″ E