Mission house church (St. Wendel)

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The mission house church in St. Wendel
View inside the church
Organ prospectus

The mission house church Maria Königin der Engel is a church belonging to the Christian order of the Steyler Missionaries (SVD) in St. Wendel in the Saarland . It belongs to the building complex of the St. Wendel Mission House , which u. a. the Arnold-Janssen-Gymnasium , a senior citizens' home in the German Province and a museum . As part of the mission house, the church is listed as an individual monument in the Saarland monuments list.

history

In 1905, Father Scholl presented a first draft for the construction of the Mission House Church. Architect Ludwig Becker ( Mainz ) was then called in to the planning in 1907. Father Alfred Fraebel (SVD) ( St. Gabriel in Mödling near Vienna ), who was commissioned to design the interior, was ultimately also responsible for the overall design of the church. The construction management was responsible for r. Alexander Pyra.

The foundation stone was laid in 1910 and on June 1, 1913, the Trier Bishop Michael Felix Korum was able to solemnly consecrate the completed church.

On January 10, 1941, the mission house - not least at the instigation of the National Socialist Gauleiter Josef Bürckel - was expropriated without trial because of the order's alleged hostility towards the state , and the mission's school was converted into an NPEA (National Political Education Institute) , colloquially known as "Napola". The church was to be rebuilt, which included a partial demolition and conversion into a ballroom.

After the end of the Second World War , the church, which had been stripped of its furnishings after the expropriation, was returned by the French occupation . Since altars , benches , confessionals , sacristy furnishings, etc. were distributed among the parishes , they could be returned to the church in good condition.

Bells

In 1955 the Saarlouiser bell foundry in Saarlouis-Fraulautern, which was founded by Karl (III) Otto from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and Aloys Riewer from Saarland, cast three bronze bells for the Missionshauskirche in St. Wendel with the chimes: e '- g' - a '. The bells have the following diameters: 1240 mm, 1042 mm, 928 mm and weigh: 1200 kg, 720 kg, 500 kg.

organ

The organ of the church was built by the Stahlhuth company ( Aachen ). In 1965 the Hugo Mayer company ( Heusweiler ) rebuilt it. The Kegelladen instrument has 30 sounding stops , divided into three manuals and pedal . A manual (III positive) is vacant. The playing and stop action is electric. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Gedacktpommer 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Gemshorn 8th'
4th Dumped 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Reed flute 4 ′
7th Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Forest flute 2 ′
9. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
10. Mixture major IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Mixture minor IV 1'
12. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
13. Harp principal 8th'
14th Wooden flute 8th'
15th Quintad 8th'
16. Italian principal 4 ′
17th recorder 4 ′
18th Octave 2 ′
19th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
20th Scharff IV 2 ⁄ 3 ′
21st bassoon 16 ′
22nd Rohrschalmey 8th'
23. Clarine 4 ′
III Positive (vacant) C – g 3
Singing dumped 8th'
Pointed 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Oktavlein 1'
Sounding cymbals III 1 ⁄ 3 ′
Krummhorn 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
24. Principal bass 16 ′
25th Sub bass 16 ′
Gedackt bass (from I) 16 ′
26th Octave 8th'
Gedackt bass (from I) 8th'
27. Choral bass 4 ′
28. Zinc II
29 Mixture IV
30th trombone 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, (III / I), (III / II), I / P, II / P, (III / P),
  • Playing aids : 2 free combinations

literature

  • Barbara Janßen: The mission houses of the SVD and St. Arnold Janssen , dissertation, University of Bonn, 2017; PDF output .

Web links

Commons : Missionshauskirche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Missionshaus St. Wendel on: www.steyler.eu, accessed on April 8, 2014
  2. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments in the district of St. Wendel (PDF; 2.5 MB), accessed on April 8, 2014
  3. ↑ a b c d The history of the St. Wendel Mission House at: www.steyler.eu, accessed on April 8, 2014
  4. ↑ The church struggle in the empire. In: Free Voices. German Carinthian regional newspaper. Vol. 57. Episode 175 of August 3, 1937, p. 2 online at ANNO .
  5. ^ Johann Neuhäusler : Cross and swastika. The struggle of National Socialism against the Catholic Church and the church resistance. Vol. 1. Verlag der Katholische Kirche Bayerns, Munich 1946, p. 150 No. 13.
  6. ^ 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 in particular pp. 87 to 95, 567 .
  7. ↑ 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 pp. 102 to 112, 518 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  8. ^ Organ of the Missionshauskirche St. Wendel on: www.organindex.de, accessed on April 8, 2014.

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '50.8 "  N , 7 ° 11' 31.7"  E