St. Andreas (Homburg-Erbach)
The St. Andreas Church is a Catholic parish church in Erbach , a district of Homburg , the district town of the Saarpfalz district in Saarland . The patron saint of the church is St. Andrew . The St. Andrew's Church is a landmark of the place due to its towering tower crowned with a pointed helmet , which can be seen from afar and towers over Erbach . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.
history
Construction work on the church building, which was built according to plans by the architect Wilhelm Schulte from Neustadt , began in 1902. The foundation stone was laid on September 7 of the same year. Two years later, on October 16, 1904, the feast was celebrated for the benediction of the church and the consecration of the bells . On June 27, 1906, the Speyer bishop Konrad von Busch finally carried out the solemn consecration of the completed church.
In 1938 the church tower was rebuilt, where a parish hall was set up.
The first renovation of the roof area was carried out at the end of the 1950s, with the slate covering being replaced by a covering made of fiber cement panels. In the 1970s, there was another renovation measure in which repairs to the roofing and the reinforcement of the wooden structure were carried out. Since the anchoring in the old sandstone cornice caused major damage to the channels due to corrosion , they had to be replaced at the beginning of the 1990s.
In the years 2003 to 2009 there was an extensive and comprehensive restoration of the church. a. Construction errors from the period of construction from 1902 to 1906 were corrected. The executing architects were Klaus Daub and Andreas Michaeli, the planning was the responsibility of the planning office Andreas Michaeli ( Rohrbach ).
architecture
The church building is a three-aisled hall church , which was built in the neo-Gothic style. The building is completed in the west by a 64 m high tower with a pointed helmet , in the east it is completed by a three-sided choir with a reticulated vault . The nave is divided into three bays , the ceilings of which are designed as ribbed vaults . Due to the yoke division, the church building has three window axes with rich tracery . The tracery continues in the gallery .
Furnishing
The church windows , which show motifs from the Old and New Testament , come from the Voege and Kribitsch glassworks ( Mannheim ) and have been preserved in the original from the time it was built. The same applies to the richly decorated high altar (a neo-Gothic winged altar ) and the side altars for which the Mayer Art Institute ( Munich ) was responsible. The Way of the Cross , a statue of St. Andrew and the pulpit sculpture "Samson under the falling column" are also worth seeing.
In 2009 the original painting from 1906 was restored in the interior.
organ
The organ of the church was built in 1911 by the organ construction company Schlimbach ( Würzburg ) and had 23 registers , two manuals and a pedal in a free-standing console . In 1957 the company Hugo Mayer Orgelbau ( Heusweiler ) rebuilt it. Since then, the instrument, which is set up on a gallery , has 29 registers. The wind chests are electropneumatic membrane chests. The organ has 1882 pipes, 1621 made of tin and 261 made of wood. The largest measures 5.20 m, the smallest 6 cm.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : two free combinations, freely adjustable pedal, crescendo roller, hand control. Off, tongues off, Tutti
Bells
The Heidelberg bell founder Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling created a four-part chime in a prefatory motif in 1952. All bells are hung on wooden yokes in a bell cage which is also made of wood. The bells a 1 and g 1 are struck every quarter of an hour in that order. The full hours are first hit by f 1 and later by d 1 . The full bells only sound at high feasts.
| No. | Surname | volume | Casting year | Foundry, casting location |
Weight (kg) |
inscription | Symbol |
| 1 | Christ the King | d 1 | 1952 | Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling , Heidelberg | 1827 | Tu solus Altissimus, Jesus Christ - O Rex gloriae veni cum Pace. | The monogram of Christ surmounted by a royal crown |
| 2 | St. Andrew | f 1 | 982 | Beato Andreae Apostolo Ecclesia et Civitatis Erbacensis Patrono - Dum trahor audite. Voco vos ad sacra venite! | The St. Andrew's Cross | ||
| 3 | St. Mary | g 1 | 677 | Ave Maria, Dominare, Regina et Mater, in medio Populi tuo Patrocinio confidentis. | The Marian monogram surrounded by a shining crown of rays . | ||
| 4th | St. Michael | a 1 | 464 | Quis ut Deus? Sancte Michael Archangele defende nos in proelio! | The soul scale |
literature
- Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: The churches in the Saar-Palatinate district . Saarbrücken 1987.
Web links
- Website with extensive documentary material on the restoration of the Church of St. Andreas 2003-2009
- Literature on St. Andreas (Homburg-Erbach) in the Saarland bibliography
- Tower recording of the plenum in the Catholic parish church St. Andreas in Homburg-Erbach (video with sound)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Michaeli and Partners: Information on the parish church of St. Andreas. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 8, 2016 ; accessed on December 19, 2018 .
- ↑ List of monuments in the Saarpfalz district (PDF; 1.2 MB) List of monuments of the Saarland; Retrieved July 11, 2012
- ^ A b c Institute for Current Art in Saarland: Information on the parish church of St. Andreas. Retrieved December 19, 2018 .
- ^ Diocese of Speyer: St. Andreas, Homburg. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 27, 2016 ; accessed on December 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Information page of the Orgeln im Saarland website : Organ of the Church of St. Andreas (Catholic). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 11, 2017 ; accessed on December 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Description of the organ at: de.organindex.org, accessed on April 4, 2018
Coordinates: 49 ° 20 ′ 39 " N , 7 ° 20 ′ 5.7" E
Remarks
- ↑ Wind attenuation of Subbass 16 '.