Assumption of Mary (Geislautern)
The Catholic parish church Maria Himmelfahrt is located in Geislautern / Völklingen . It was built in the years 1906/1907 according to the plan of the architect Wilhelm Hector in neo -Gothic style.
Building history
The initiative for the construction took over citizens who had founded a church building savings association. The village teacher at the time, Weiler, to whom the choice of location is attributed, can be described as its spokesman.
On October 27, 1907, the Church dedicated to the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Hubertus is consecrated by dean Keil from St. Johann-Saarbrücken. In the original Latin text, the church is consecrated to ASSUMPTIO BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS and Saint Hubert.
building
The church was built on a hill in the village. The asymmetrical neo-Gothic style building has a very wide transept and a slender tower next to the choir . In addition to the wide entrance front, there is a small stair tower on the right-hand side.
The new neo-Gothic high altar was only erected with great effort the night before the inauguration . It was made in the workshop of the sculptor Karl Frank (1868–1942) from Kaiserslautern and resident in Trier . It shows episodes from the life of Mary starting with Isaiah's prophecy ( Isa 7,14 EU ) up to the Ascension.
In 1911, the high altar was consecrated and the church consecrated by the Trier bishop Michael Felix Korum .
On the left front side there is currently the figure of Mary , which formerly formed the top of the high altar. It replaces the side altar. On the right front side there is a statue of Hubertus with deer antlers with the cross at his feet; this statue was inaugurated in 1988.
Today the church is registered as an individual monument in the Saarland list of monuments.
Bells
The bells of the church were replaced for the second time after losses in the war in 1953 by bells from the Saarlouiser bell foundry in Saarlouis-Fraulautern, which was founded by Karl (III) Otto from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and Alois Riewer from Saarland in 1953 . Alois Riewer ran a sawmill and a timber shop in Geislautern. For the Church of the Assumption of Mary five bronze bells with the striking notes: h 0 - dis '- f sharp' - g sharp '- h'. The bells have the following diameters: 1656 mm, 1314 mm, 1105 mm, 984 mm, 820 mm and weigh: 2810 kg, 1410 kg, 805 kg, 579 kg, 350 kg.
organ
The church's current organ was built in 1951 as Opus 31 by the Sebald Orgelbau company ( Trier ) and goes back to an instrument made by the organ builder Heinrich Wilhelm Breidenfeld , which was originally built for the Fraulautern monastery in 1874 . This organ came to the newly built Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Fraulautern in 1895 , before it was finally installed in the church of Geislautern in 1926. When today's Sebald organ was built in 1951, some registers and the wind chest of the main work were taken over from the Breidenfeld organ .
The instrument has 35 (37) registers , distributed over 3 manuals and pedal . The wind is supplied by cone chests , in the main plant by slider chests . The game and stop action is electro-pneumatic. In the main work the action mechanism is electric. The disposition is as follows:
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Sub-octave coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II
- Playing aids : 2 free combinations, 1 free pedal combination (pedal switching), tutti, crescendo roller, individual tongue storage
literature
- Article: Old churches in new splendor , part 9, renovation of "Maria Himmelfahrt" in Völklingen-Geislautern completed, in: Paulinus, Trierer Bistumsblatt , 110 (1984), 4, pp. 26-27.
- Hermann Bauernfeind: Parish Maria Himmelfahrt Vk-Geislautern , in: Mini-click, contributions to local history , Schloßparkschule, Völklingen-Geislautern, February 1990.
- Hermann Bauernfeind: Chronicle of the parish "Maria Himmelfahrt" Geislautern , in: Schloßjournal, Geislauterner Geschichte (n) , special edition October 1999, pp. 7–32.
- Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, p. 238 u. P. 470 and P. 616.
- Article: Consecrated 90 years ago, Maria Himmelfahrt in Geislautern, The history of its construction, teacher decided on location , in: Saarbrücker Zeitung: Newspaper for Völklingen and the Köllertal, August 12, 1997, p. 185.
- Peter Wagner: Article When building a church, luck also helped, large and yet cozy, Maria Himmelfahrt in Völklingen-Geislautern , in: Saarbrücker Zeitung from 24./25. September 2005, p. 223, p. E1 [1] .
Web links
- Website of the parish community Warndt
- Völklingen in change - building history and photos of the church
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on Karl Frank in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on March 19, 2017 .
- ↑ 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 June 15, 2014.
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here especially 87 to 95, 566, 572 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular 105 to 112, 517, 526 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
- ↑ a b The organ of the parish church Maria Himmelfahrt in Geislautern On: www.organindex.de, accessed on June 15, 2014
Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '14.4 " N , 6 ° 50' 9.5" E