Kuchling Chapel
The Kuchlinger Chapel , also St. Wendalinus and St. Agatha , is a Roman Catholic chapel in the Auersmacher district of the Kleinblittersdorf community . It is a listed monument as a single monument.
history
As early as the 7th century, a first church was built on the site for the surrounding settlements, primarily for the "Bliederstorff" (today Kleinblittersdorf and Grosbliederstroff ) located on both sides of the Saar , the largest in the (now submerged) village of "Cochling / Kuchling (en)" the chapel that is preserved today. In addition to Blittersdorf and Auersmacher, the parish in Kuchlingen at that time included the desert area "Gungling (en)" (still the name for an industrial area on Route nationale 61 ) and "Lüxinga" on the left bank of the Saar.
Abbot Fulrad bequeathed the place and chapel along with other riches to his abbey in Saint-Denis in 777 . In the 13th century the property came to the Wadgassen Abbey , and church supervision moved to Grosbliederstroff in the diocese of Metz . After it was destroyed and rebuilt as a result of the Thirty Years' War , the Kuchlinger Chapel was rebuilt as a small church for the population of Auersmacher in 1797, after Kleinblittersdorf had its own parish church (the "cathedral" , which was profaned at the beginning of the 20th century ). At the beginning of the 1840s the chapel had already become too small. The Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary was therefore built in 1843 . The Kuchlinger chapel lost its importance as a parish church. It was rebuilt in 1850 and restored several times in the 20th century, most recently in the 1990s.
architecture
The baroque plastered building faces east and closes there with a three-sided choir with an oculus in the back wall. On the west side sits a simple portal with a round arch, above it an octagonal slate roof turret on a hipped gable roof. A fragment of a sacrament niche with tracery from the 15th century was walled in above the portal , and above it sits a small oculus. The long sides each have three window axes with round arches and soffits made of yellow sandstone.
Furnishing
The altar dates from 1797 and shows the figures of Maria , Wendelin , Hubertus , Josef , Petrus and Paulus . The communion bench also comes from the year the church was built.
Surroundings
The wayside cross in front of the chapel on the church courtyard wall was built as early as 1791. The crucifixion group opposite the Kuchlinger chapel with a 5 meter high cross with the body of Christ and the figure of Mary comes from the sculptor Franticek Hladky .
literature
- Hans Caspary, Wolfgang Götz, Ekkart Klinge (arrangement): Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland . (= Georg Dehio (†): Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ), Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984, p. 48
Web links
- Kuchlinger Chapel in Kleinblittersdorf , Saar Art Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sub-monument list of the Saarbrücken regional association ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , List of monuments of the Saarland, Landesdenkmalamt, p. 17
- ↑ Michel Mohr: Chronicle of the Saar-Blies-Winkels , Vol. II, p. 13ff .; Self-published, Sitterswald 1988–1989
- ↑ Flyer of the parish community Kleinblittersdorf
Coordinates: 49 ° 8 '49.4 " N , 7 ° 2' 47.9" E