St. Anna (St. Wendel)

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Entrance portal in the bell tower
Interior with a view of the altar
Entrance area with organ gallery

The Church of St. Anna is a Catholic parish church in St. Wendel in the Saarland . It bears the patronage of St. Anne and is listed as an individual monument in the Saarland list of monuments .

history

The first St. Anna Church was built in 1930/1931 according to designs by architect Hans Herkommer from Stuttgart . During the Second World War it was badly damaged in bombing raids on Christmas Eve 1944 and completely destroyed in further air raids. In the years 1948 to 1954 it was rebuilt in a simplified form by the Neunkirchen architect Josef Wilhelm Stockhausen in Romanized forms. The new building was completed in several steps. After removing the rubble from the old church, the nave was built in 1949 and designated on December 18, 1949 by Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich Metzroth . In 1951/1952 the choir was added and the tower was built in 1953/1954. In 1955 the community got an organ, the following year the bells were put into operation. In 1958 and 1961 the St. Anna kindergarten and the “home of the open door” were built.

Architecture and equipment

You enter the nave via a mighty tower with a transverse rectangular floor plan on the west side. The sound windows of the bells are located in the three wall-high niches and the simple glass doors on the ground floor. A clock hangs in front of the central sound window. One enters a tower vestibule with the baptismal font, which is separated from the nave by round arches with rectangular glass doors. The four-aisled nave forms a pillarless basilica with flat ceilings with a cross-ribbed grid. There is a gallery with an organ above the entrance. Arched windows sit in the upper cladding. A lower aisle is attached to the aisle on the south side, which was separated from the main room by arched arcades. On the west side there is a ribbon-like opening over the arcades, through which one enters the balcony-like pulpit. Arched windows with abstract motifs made of stained glass illuminate the interior of the church and were created in 1957 by Reinhard Heß and in 1964 by Father Bonifatius Köck . The walls are plastered white on the inside and the floor is covered with light ceramic tiles.

The side altars are simple and sit in wall-high arched niches. The nave ends in a rectangular choir room. The main altar is also located on the head wall in a round arch niche.

organ

The organ was built in 1955 by Michael Weise . She owns cone shop . Game and stop action are electro-pneumatic.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Coarse 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Coupling flute 8th'
4th Dulciana 8th'
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Pointed flute 4 ′
7th Schwegel 2 ′
8th. Mixture V – VII 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Trumpet 8th'
II upper structure C – g 3
10. Reed flute 8th'
11. Quintad 8th'
12. English principal 4 ′
13. Forest flute 4 ′
14th Swiss pipe 2 ′
15th Super quint 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Cimbel III  1 ⁄ 2 ′
17th Krummhorn 8th'
18th Wooden shelf 4 ′
III Swell C – g 3
19th Singing cloaked 8th'
20th Salicional 8th'
21st Far principal 4 ′
22nd Reed flute 4 ′
23. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
24. Night horn 2 ′
25th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
26th Oktavlein 1'
27. Sharp V
28. oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
29 Principal bass 16 ′
30th Sub bass 16 ′
31. Subtle bass 16 ′
32. Quintbass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
33. Octave bass 8th'
34. Choral bass 4 ′
35. Field flute 2 ′
36. Back set IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
37. trombone 16 ′
  • Pair : II / I, III / I, III / I (Sub), III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
  • Playing aids : 2 free combinations, 2 free automatic pedal combinations (1 each for II and III), tutti, general tongue storage, crescendo roller

Bells

Five new bells from the Mabilon bell foundry in Saarburg have been hanging in the tower since 1956 .

literature

  • Gerd Schmitt: Church leader of the Catholic parish church St. Anna zu St. Wendel: the veneration of St. Anna in St. Wendel; a guide to the sights of their sanctuary. St. Wendel 2000.
  • Marlen Dittmann: The building culture in Saarland 1904-1945 (= Saarland Hefte , Volume 3). Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland , Saarbrücken 2004, pp. 45–47.
  • Bastian Müller: Architecture of the post-war period in Saarland (= preservation of monuments in Saarland , volume 4). Landesdenkmalamt Saar, Saarbrücken 2011, p. 143.

Web links

Commons : St. Anna, St. Wendel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments in the district of St. Wendel , p. 38 (PDF), accessed on September 11, 2017.
  2. ^ The organ of St. Anna at organindex.de, accessed on September 11, 2017.

Coordinates: 49 ° 28 '18.9 "  N , 7 ° 9' 42.2"  E