List of architectural monuments in Beckingen

This list of architectural monuments in Beckingen lists all of the architectural monuments of the Saarland community Beckingen and its districts. The basis is the publication of the state monuments list in the Saarland official gazette of March 14, 2007 and the current sub-monuments list of the Merzig-Wadern district in the version of August 9, 2017.

Beckingen

location	designation	description	image
Outside of the location coordinates are missing! Help.	Wayside shrine	1813, remodeled in 1926
Bahnhofstrasse location	Station reception building	The train station in Beckingen was built in the years 1858/1859 according to plans by Otto Lieber in the neo-Gothic style. Around 1890, the railway building was extended by two outer axis buildings. The building was destroyed in the Second World War and only provisionally restored in the post-war years. It was not until 2009 and 2014 that the station was extensively renovated and restored after its closure. The most striking feature is the tower with an octagonal tower. A lower building with a mezzanine connects to the two-storey reception building with battlements and stepped gables. The yellow sandstone building is accentuated by red corner blocks.
Brückenstraße coordinates are missing! Help.	Taken plates	17./18. Century, plates removed from the previous owner
Cemetery location	Pastor Leidinger's grave chapel with furnishings	The chapel is named after Franz Xaver Leidinger, the former Beckingen pastor and builder of the parish church of St. John and Paul. The open chapel was built in 1863 on the occasion of the death of Leidinger's mother. Pastor Leidinger is buried here next to his mother Katharina. The walls are painted in the upper two thirds. On the front wall there is an altar with a crucifix, flanked by a statue of Our Lady and a statue of Christ. The triangular gable in the entrance area is made of stained glass.
Herrenbergstrasse 1 location	Coming from the Teutonic Order, residential buildings, farm buildings, fountains, gate pillars by Francois Motte d'Altviller	1755
Pfaffenkopfweg location	Siegfried Line fortification Pfaffenkopfweg Bunker WH 767	The bunker of the type Regelbau 114a is the only surviving standard building with a free throat front and entrance defense in this series and was built by the Todt Organization in 1938/39 as part of the West Wall. Its reinforced concrete walls, which are 3.5 meters thick, house the gas lock, standby room, refreshment room, ammunition chamber, entrance defense and combat tower with a six-slot dome.
Talstrasse location	Catholic Church of St. John and Paul	St. Johannes and Paulus was built between 1861 and 1863 according to plans by Carl Friedrich Müller . The neo-Gothic three-aisled hall church is divided into six bays
Talstrasse 13 location	Coat of arms stone of the Deutschherrenschloss	1664
Talstrasse location	Catholic Marcellus Chapel	The chapel was built in 1634 by the Commander of the Teutonic Order. In 1858 the Beckingen parish acquired the Marcellus Chapel from private owners, but the small church fell into disrepair in the decades that followed. The first restoration work was not carried out until 1914/15. The one-bay hall construction is completed in the east by a three-sided choir. The slate hipped roof is crowned centrally by a small wooden roof turret with bells. The hall and choir sides each have a pointed arched stained glass window on both long sides.
Talstrasse / Mühlenbachstrasse location	Wayside cross	18th century
Schneiderskreuzstrasse 1 location	Heinrich Arkander's house	The two-storey house was built in 1931/32 on a rectangular floor plan with a high basement. The house entrance in the south and Auslucht in the west are connected by a shared terrace with a balustrade. The windows in this area are connected to the entrance via a cornice. The building has four axes on the ground floor, each coupled by two, while there are two axes on the upper floor. A tent roof completes the structure.

Düppenweiler

location	designation	description	image
Outside street location	Catholic Valentinus Chapel	The chapel was built in 1858/59 on the site of the old church in the destroyed village of Oberweiler. In 1922 it was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1930/31. The small hall building with a gable roof has two window axes on the long sides and on three sides. A modern relief is attached behind the simple sandstone altar.
Kreuzstrasse 24/26 location	Carl's house, farm and school house with vaulted cellar	The building was built in the 18th century and remodeled in the 19th century. It is a typical Lorraine farm with a slightly protruding farm part. The two-storey plastered building with a gable roof has three axes on the front. The farm building has two axes, one of which is a round-arched barn door.
Piesbacher Strasse location	Copper mine , tunnel mouth hole	The mine was driven by tunnel construction from 1725. As a result, the mining of copper had to be stopped again and again because too much water penetrated. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Dillinger Hütte acquired the mine, but closed it down for good in 1916.
Schlossbergstrasse location	Catholic Church of St. Leodegar	Only the four lower tower basements of the once baroque church from 1765 have been preserved. The current church building was built between 1897 and 1900 based on designs by the architect Wilhelm Hector . A modern belfry with long arcades was built on top of the baroque tower floors from 1955 to 1958. The church building, built in the neo-Gothic style, with a single nave and two-bay transept is closed off by a five-sided choir. The interior of the church is richly painted.

Provide

location	designation	description	image
Luziastraße location	Catholic branch church Luciakapelle	In the 15th century, today's choir was built as a small prayer room. A hall was added to it from 1770 to 1772, and the old chapel became a choir. The small hall building is closed in the east by a square choir. The narrow passage of the choir wall is painted with foliage. In the choir there is a round arched window on the long sides, in the hall itself a round arched and a high rectangular stained glass window. A square roof ridge sits on the slated roof.

Hargarten

location	designation	description	image
Annastraße coordinates are missing! Help.	Catholic Anne's Chapel	The Anne Chapel was built in 1771. The plastered hall building with corner blocks has a portal on the gable side, above it a gable turret. The altar from the 18th century shows St. Teaching Anna.

Home town

location	designation	description	image
Haustadter Talstraße location	St. Mauritius Catholic Church	The church building was erected between 1914 and 1920 according to plans by the architects Ludwig Becker and Anton Falkowski. The neo-baroque building was built with a three-aisled basilica with a nave, transept and choir with a semicircular apse. The church tower with the Welscher dome is flanked by two smaller towers, each with an onion dome. A semicircular portico connects both. Barrel vaults span the interior of the room.
Main street location	Bunker Siegfried Line fortification, Haustadt

Honzrath

location	designation	description	image
Merchinger Strasse location	Catholic branch church of St. Catherine	The small church was first mentioned in a document in 1569. In 1677 it was destroyed in the course of the War of the Reunion of Louis XIV. It was rebuilt in 1693. In 1863 the church was rebuilt. The small hall church is closed off by a three-sided choir. On the west side of the hall there is a defiant tower over a square floor plan with a pyramid roof.

Oppen

location	designation	description	image
Oppener Strasse 49 location	Wayside cross	18th century

Reimsbach

location	designation	description	image
Reimsbacher Strasse location	Catholic Church of St. Andrew and the Assumption of Mary	The neo-Gothic church was built as a three-aisled basilica between 1898 and 1901 according to plans by the architect Wilhelm Hector. A transept adjoins the four-bay nave with ribbed vaults, followed by a five-sided choir. To the east, the building is closed off by a square tower.
Reimsbacher Strasse 36 location	former catholic parish church with surrounding walls	1750
Reimsbacher Straße 51 location	Wayside cross	18th century
Reimsbacher Straße 79 location	Gasthof Stein	19th century, remodeled in 1914
Reimsbacher Straße 99 location	Wayside cross	18th century

Saarfels

location	designation	description	image
Barbarastrasse location	Altar sculptures St. Barbara, St. Sebastian	The modern St Barbara Church in Saarfels has two altar figures from the 18th century. Both wood carvings are on consoles in the church hall.
Wendelinusstrasse location	cath. Wendelinus Chapel	The original building dates from the 15th century and was a hunting chapel of the Teutonic Order in Beckingen, its tower is probably Romanesque. In 1821 restoration work was carried out and extensive reconstruction was carried out. The hall building has a choir with ⅝-end and ribbed vault. The portal is next to a tower that was pushed slightly asymmetrically into the west gable. Corner blocks adorn the portal side and the tower, simple buttresses support the long sides, which each have two ogival windows.

Web links

Commons : Architectural monuments in Beckingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• List of monuments of the Saarland: List of monuments in the district of Merzig-Wadern (PDF file; 2.22 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bunker 7676 , Beckingen Culture and Local History Association, accessed on September 15, 2016

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap