Church of the Exaltation of the Cross (Primstal)
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The Church of the Exaltation of the Cross is a church building in the Primstal district of the Saarland community of Nonnweiler . It is a listed monument as a single monument.
history
Before 1240, the villages of Primstal were looked after by the Tholey Abbey. According to oral tradition, a small chapel is said to have stood on the "Chapel Hill " between Mettnich and Eiweiler during this time , which was consecrated to the Holy Cross and was used from 1150 to 1450. A new church was built in Mettnich around 1450. With the boom in the region through the coal and mining industry, the villages and communities grew strongly at the end of the 19th century. In 1806 the church was given a three-aisled nave, and in 1844 the nave was lengthened. After the end of the Second World War, the village church became too small and in 1951 the Trier architect F. Kleis widened it. But at the end of the 1960s this church had become too small and the building fabric was classified as inadequate. Between 1967 and 1970 the parish therefore had a new building built according to plans by the Saarbrücken architect, architect Albert Dietz . The old nave was demolished in 1981. The late Gothic choir and bell tower were preserved and restored on the outside in 1980/81 and on the inside in the 2000s.
Today the church is used as a chapel.
architecture
From the medieval church of the 15th century only the bell tower and choir in the late Gothic style are preserved. Hans Nentlen's name and stonemason's mark can be found in the ribbed vault of the tower hall . The choir has a ⅝ ending. A sacrament niche sits in the north wall. The opening to the nave was closed with a wall with an oculus .
The new church is attached to the old church with a direct passage through the sacristy . The reinforced concrete construction with ribbon windows appears to be layered from the outside and folded from the inside. The south walls behind the altar are inclined approx. 9 degrees into the room. Exposed concrete walls with a glass entrance front define the image outside. The roof rises here in steps and lets light into the interior. On the south side, the roof reaches down to the ground like a tent. Inside, the ceilings rise towards the chancel. The floor is covered with natural slate. Narrow spruce wood panels cover the walls.
The baroque side altar of St. Aloisius , the baptismal font and a large mission cross were taken from the old church in the new church. The main altar remained in the old church. The pulpit originally comes from a church in Trier, then came to Primstal and was brought to St. Hubertus in Ihn after the Primstal church was demolished . The confessional from the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross is also in it today.
literature
- 750 years of the Parish Raising the Cross, Primstal, silver jubilee of Pastor Ernst Meyer . Parish Elevation of the Cross, Nonnweiler 1990
- Hans Caspary, Wolfgang Götz, Ekkart Klinge (arrangement): Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland . (= Georg Dehio (†): Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984, pp. 830f
- Rupert Schreiber: Ecclesiastical monument preservation in the diocese of Trier: Primstal (Nonnweiler-Primstal), parish church heightened the cross . In: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History: together with reports on church monument preservation . Mainz, Vol. 59 (2007), pp. 584-586
Web links
- Raising the cross in Primstal near the Nonnweiler parish community
- Catholic churches in Nonnweiler in the Saar art dictionary
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland: List of monuments in the district of St. Wendel (PDF file; 16.81 MB), p. 19
- ↑ Harald Knitter: Iconic cult space . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , January 29, 2005 ( online as PDF )
Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '12.7 " N , 6 ° 58' 40.9" E