Guardian Angel Church (Heimbach)

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Guardian Angel Church

View from the east of the Guardian Angel Church

Basic data
Denomination Roman Catholic
place Heimbach , Germany
diocese Diocese of Trier
Patronage Guardian Angel and Petrus Canisius
Building history
construction time 1924-1926
Building description
inauguration October 4, 1926
Coordinates 49 ° 36 '52.1 "  N , 7 ° 14' 56.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '52.1 "  N , 7 ° 14' 56.7"  E
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The Catholic Guardian Angel Church is located in the center of Heimbach in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Birkenfeld . It is best known for the expressionist wall paintings by the Silesian artist Alfred Gottwald . The Guardian Angel Church can be seen from afar and characterizes Heimbach's townscape.

location

The Guardian Angel Church is located in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Birkenfeld on a small hill in Heimbach. The church is located in the center of the village and is separated from the main street by a row of houses. Bettendorff-Platz borders directly to the east . The church can be reached via the street In der Treibe or a footbridge to the main street.

history

In Heimbach, a chapel was built on Höhklopp from 1885 to 1886 , which was also dedicated to the holy guardian angels and was demolished in 1969. Construction work on today's church began in 1924 and was completed in 1926. The consecration of the church took place on 4 October 1926th The church tower was inaugurated in the summer of 1925. The bells in the church tower were financed exclusively by the residents of Heimbach and the surrounding villages.

The Guardian Angel Church today belongs to the parish community Nahe-Heide-Westrich .

architecture

The Heimbach Guardian Angel Church is essentially a single-nave building with a directly adjoining choir . The nave is oriented in an east-west direction. The choir with altar is located to the west. The outer facade is pink, with the eastern facade adorned with black paintings above the main entrance. The church tower , which is also pink , adjoins the southwest corner of the building.

Murals

Inside the church, the expressionist church painter Alfred Gottwald made murals. He designed the paintings on the two long sides of the ship and in the choir room. They have since been completely painted over and exposed again in 1988.

organ

Sebald organ

In 1964 the first pipe organ that is still preserved today was built by the organ building company Sebald from Trier. It has 16 registers , which are distributed over two manuals and pedal , with a total of 1104 pipes. The inauguration took place on December 13, 1964.

I main work C–
Principal 8th'
Wooden dacked 8th'
Gemshorn 4 ′
Suavial 2 ′
Mixture III-IV
II breastwork C–
Reed flute 8th'
Praestant 4 ′
recorder 2 ′
Sesquialter II
Cymbel III
oboe 8th'
Pedal C–
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octavbass 8th'
Idleness 8th'
Pipe pommer 4 ′
Rauschpfeife II
  • Coupling : II / I, II / I Super, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids : 2 free combinations, crescendo roller, tremolo, piano pedal, tutti, tongues off

Personalities

The building of the Heimbach Guardian Angel Church was intensively supported by the pastor Ludwig Bettendorff . He also used his own financial resources to build the church. Bettendorf was a prisoner in Sachsenhausen concentration camp from 1940 and later in Dachau concentration camp . He was released on April 4, 1945, a few months before the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp , and initially returned to Heimbach. As a result of his imprisonment in the concentration camps , he was marked by illness and later moved to the Moselle, where he died in 1951. To commemorate and honor the former Heimbach pastor, the forecourt of the Guardian Angel Church was named Bettendorffplatz on the 90th anniversary of the church consecration in 2016 .

Web links

Commons : Guardian Angel Church Heimbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Church hiking trail VG Baumholder. (PDF) VGV Baumholder, March 22, 2016, accessed on May 31, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Heimbach. In: Hunsrück-Nahe trip. Accessed May 31, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c 90 years of the Guardian Angel Church Heimbach . In: Nahe-Heide-Westrich parish letter . tape 2016 , no. 12 , September 19, 2016, p. 8 .
  4. ↑ Churches and chapels. In: nahheidewestrich.de. Accessed May 31, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Helga Blitsch: works of the organs of Brandt-Sebald piano and organ engineering, Eduard Sebald (Trier), organ building Trier (Rudolf Oehms). (PDF) p. 6 , accessed on May 31, 2020 .
  6. ^ Memories of Ludwig Bettendorff. In: Nahe newspaper. March 13, 2014, accessed May 31, 2020 .