St. Antonius (Saarhölzbach)
The St. Antonius Church is a Catholic church in Saarhölzbach . The church is a listed building as an individual monument.
history
Saarhölzbach received a small chapel as early as 1290, which belonged to the nearby Mettlach Abbey . In 1430 the place received its first Antonius Chapel, which stood on the site of today's church. In 1792 the chapel was torn down and a single-nave classicist church was built. In 1848 the sacred building was expanded for the first time according to plans by the factory builder Karl August von Cohausen . From 1930, the church was extensively enlarged by the architect Peter Marx : the building received two aisles. The present church was consecrated on January 20, 1934. The roof, ceiling and windows were badly damaged in the Second World War . The war damage was repaired between 1945 and 1950. In 1973 the church was extensively renovated, including the valuable pulpit by Mrziglod-Leiß ( Tholey ). In 2006 the organ was extensively restored.
architecture
The building runs in a west-east direction. The entrance portal is in the west. In the south-west, the church building surrounds a square bell tower on two sides, the facade of which is interrupted by two cornices .
Furnishing
The most important work in the interior is the wooden pulpit in Louis-Seize style, which probably comes from a palace chapel. It originally stood in the St. Johann church in Mettlach and was bought by the Saarhölzbach community in 1810. In 2002 the church received a new sandstone altar in front of the choir . The vault of the choir is painted with a portrait of Christ by the Bonn church painter Alfred Gottwald (Bonn). In the choir there is a high altar with baroque forms from 1793. It was built by the Mettlach monastery carpenter Johannes Grim. The church also has four large figures of saints of St. Nicholas , St. Hubertus , St. Eligius and St. Michael from the 18th century.
The organ of the parish church was built in 1903 by the Späth brothers for the St. Sebastian Church in Oberkirchberg ( Illerkirchberg municipality ) and transferred to Saarhölzbach in 2006.
local community
The parish with 1400 Catholics belongs to the parish community of St. Lutwinus Mettlach .
literature
- Ruth Wagner: A pulpit as a piece of jewelry . Saarbrücker Zeitung , November 16, 2013
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich, 1984, p. 904
Web links
- Antoniuskirche in the Saar Art Lexicon
- St. Antonius Saarhölzbach , City of Mettlach (PDF; 81 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments in the district of Merzig-Wander (PDF; 320 kB), p. 31
- ↑ The organ on OrganIndex
- ↑ Die Organ on Saar-Orgelland.de ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 49 ° 30 '55.1 " N , 6 ° 36' 26.9" E