St. Albert (Saarbrücken)
The St. Albertus Magnus Church is a Catholic parish church in Saarbrücken .
location
The church is located in the Rodenhof district on the corner of Obersteiner Strasse and Heinrich-Köhl-Strasse.
history
The first brick church built in 1938/39 according to plans by the architect Reinhard Güthler was a single-aisled hall with a turret and was bombed in 1944. Only the crypt including the tabernacle and a bronze cross have been preserved. Between 1944 and 1949 the crypt, private apartments and a parish hall served as an emergency church . The parsonage was built from the stones of the first church. In 1952 the crypt was finally used as an emergency church.
In 1950 the architects Dominikus and Gottfried Böhm presented a design for a new church, which was realized between 1952 and 1954. An extensive restoration of the church took place between 1982 and 1985. From 1994 to 1999 the roof and facades were repaired and in 2005 the interior painting was renewed true to the original.
architecture
The structure of the church consists of three elements: the church itself, a campanile in front and an atrium . The shape of the church building is not uniformly elliptical, but egg-shaped and consists of 70,000 bricks from the previous church. A glass dome towers over the building, which is held in place by massive concrete buttresses .
In the center of the almost round interior of the church is an altar on an island under the glass dome. The floor is designed with black stone tiles and the walls are painted in a warm salmon color. In the bulges of a wave-shaped wall, niches were created with figures of saints. In the baptistery under the bell tower there is a baptismal font made of red sandstone. Most of the works of art date from the 1950s.
The sacrament chapel dates from 1951/52. The closing wall, made of rubble from the previous church, bears fragments of inscriptions from the old church.
There is a rectory and a parish hall on the site of the parish. The church, including the outbuildings and the garden, is a listed building as an example of sacred post-war architecture.
organ
Main organ
The organ of the church was built in 1956 by Michael Weise ( Plattling ). The instrument has 30 registers , divided into three manuals and pedal, and is placed on the wall to the left of the altar. The playing and stop action is electric.
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- Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Playing aids : hand register, three free combinations, free automatic piano pedal on II and III
Crypt organ
Since about 1998 there has been an organ in the crypt , which was bought by the organist of the church at the time and placed there on loan. The instrument is a house organ of unknown origin, which was built around 1900. The windchests are pneumatic.
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- Remarks
- ↑ also playable as 4 ′ and 2 ′
Bells
The free-standing, approximately 30-meter-high bell tower houses one of the largest open-hanging bells in Saarland. In 1958, master Wolfgang Hausen-Mabilon created five bronze bells in his Saarburg bell foundry. The ceremonial inauguration of the bells took place in the same year. The yoke suspension is made of steel. Because of the open hanging, the bells are loud; For this reason, the full bell only rings on the highest religious holidays such as Christmas, Easter and Pentecost.
| No. | Surname | Chime | Weight | diameter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christ | h 0 | 2800 kg | 164 cm |
| 2 | Mary Mother of God | dis 1 | 1350 kg | 132 cm |
| 3 | Saint Albert | f sharp 1 | 850 kg | 111 cm |
| 4th | Saint Matthias | g sharp 1 | 580 kg | 98 cm |
| 5 | Saint Heinrich | as 1 | 400 kg | 88 cm |
literature
- Oranna Dimmig: Catholic parish church St. Albert Saarbrücken. (= Saar Art Lexicon, Architecture and Space .) Institute for Current Art, Saarbrücken 2015, ISBN 978-3-9817447-0-5 . ( online as PDF; 2.63 MB)
- Bastian Müller: Post-war architecture in Saarland. (= Preservation of monuments in Saarland , Volume 4.) Saarbrücken 2011, p. 147.
Individual evidence
- ^ Bastian Müller: Architecture of the post-war period in the Saarland . Preservation of monuments in Saarland Volume 4, Saarland Monuments Office, Saarbrücken, 2011, ISBN 978-3-927856-14-1
- ^ A b c St. Albert , Saar Art Lexicon
- ↑ The Catholic Parish Church of St. Albert in Saarbrücken - Malstatt , Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Transport, State Monuments Office Saarland
- ↑ St. Albert (PDF; 653 kB) in the list of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments of the state capital of Saarbrücken, Saarland monuments office, p. 37
- ↑ Main organ of the Church of St. Albert (Catholic) ( Memento of the original from May 8, 2016 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. Info page of the Orgeln im Saarland website , accessed on October 21, 2012
- ↑ Crypt organ of the Church of St. Albert (Catholic) ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. Info page of the Orgeln im Saarland website , accessed on October 21, 2012
Web links
- Full bells of the Catholic parish church St. Albert in Saarbrücken-Rodenhof
- Parish Church of St. Albert Saarbrücken - Website of the parish of St. Albert
- Strasse der Moderne - St. Albert, Saarbrücken
Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 53.6 ″ N , 6 ° 59 ′ 31.2 ″ E