St. Andreas (Altheim)

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The parish church of St. Andreas in Altheim
View of the church from the west
View inside the church
View from the chancel to the organ gallery

The Church of St. Andreas is a Catholic parish church in Altheim , a district of Blieskastel in the Saar- Palatinate district . The patron saint of the church is St. Andrew . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.

history

The first church was built between 1360 and 1390, and the choir tower has been preserved to this day. The basement of the tower housed the church choir . The tower was raised in 1499, which shows the year on the upper sound hole on the north side. In 1760 the nave was demolished and replaced by a baroque hall church from 1760 to 1763 . The plans for the new building came from the ducal Palatinate-Zweibrücken building director Christian Ludwig Hautt . Master builder Bastian Arnold ( Zweibrücken ) was responsible for the execution .

After being destroyed in the Second World War , the church was rebuilt between 1948 and 1949. In 1957 the tower was restored. In 1964 the church building underwent a restoration and conversion. During a renewed restoration in 1978, the church received a new altar .

architecture

The church building is a hall with five window axes . The tower with a pointed helmet is attached to the side of the nave , in the basement of which the sacristy is located, a ribbed vault can be seen. In the east wall of the sacristy there is a sacrament niche with remains of a wall painting . Until 1948/49 the church had a three-sided closed choir, which was replaced by a rectangular choir.

organ

The organ of the church was built in 1968 by the organ building workshop Hugo Mayer Orgelbau ( Heusweiler ) and has 16 registers , distributed over two manuals and pedal . The slider chests -instrument has a free-standing gaming table and is on a dais erected. The action mechanism is mechanical, the stop action is electric.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Salicional 8th'
3. Octave 4 ′
4th recorder 2 ′
5. Mixture IV 2 ′
6th Trumpet 8th'
II Positive C-g 3
7th Dumped 8th'
8th. Pipe pommer 4 ′
9. Principal 2 ′
10. Night horn 1'
11. Sesquialter II
12. Cymbel III 2 ⁄ 3 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
13. Sub-bass 16 ′
14th Octave 8th'
15th Quintad 4 ′
16. Back set III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′

literature

  • Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: The churches in the Saar-Palatinate district . Saarbrücken 1987.

Web links

Commons : St. Andreas (Altheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list Saarpfalz-Kreis (PDF; 1.1 MB), accessed on July 28, 2012
  2. ↑ a b Information on the parish church of St. Andreas at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on July 28, 2012
  3. ↑ Information on the parish church of St. Andreas on the website of the city of Blieskastel, accessed on July 28, 2012
  4. ↑ Organ of the Church of St. Andreas (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 July 11, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saar-orgelland.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 16.5 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 45.2 ″  E