St. Antonius (Werbeln)
The Church of St. Anthony of Padua is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua in Werbeln , a district of the Saarland community of Wadgassen , Saarlouis district . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.
history
Before today's church was built, the Catholics from Werbeln had to make the way to Wadgassen to attend the service . First concrete considerations to tackle the construction of a church in Werbeln were ruined by the outbreak of the First World War . But as early as 1919, the deliberations were brought back to life with the establishment of a church building association . In the period from 1920 to 1923 managed a club assets of 77,513.10 Friday to earn.
In order to advance the planning for the church building, on March 10, 1923 the church council of Wadgassen applied for the "elevation of the Werbeln branch to a chapel parish" and the "preliminary work for the construction of a chapel" was decided.
As a result of a donation , the building site for the church building to be erected had been in possession since 1912 , the plans for which architect Peter Marx ( Trier ) was responsible. The foundation stone was laid on June 17, 1923 , and the shell of the church was completed by the end of the same year . The masonry work, which was completed in August 1923, was carried out by the contractor Schneider ( Schaffhausen ). In addition, the population of Werbeln took part. B. by bringing building materials in their own wagons to the construction work. The solemn inauguration of the completed church took place on Trinity Sunday in 1924. The interior, which was very modest after the inauguration, was not completed until the following years.
On March 3, 1929, the Wadgassen parish council decided to raise Werbeln to a chapel parish . It took until January 29, 1937, before the decision was taken up again and Werbeln should become an independent “pastoral care center”. On March 20, 1938, Kaplan Manderscheid was the first pastor of the branch office in Werbeln. Before that, Werbeln had finally been elevated to a chapel parish by a document dated March 1, 1938. The state confirmation of the survey took place on August 2, 1938. The next step towards independence took place on March 19, 1941, when Werbeln was elevated to a vicariate with its own asset management .
During the Second World War , the church was largely destroyed by artillery fire, but it was poorly restored by the end of 1945. In 1952 the parsonage in Kohlenbauerweg above the church was completed. After various renovation and reconstruction work in and around the church during the 1970s, the parish council decided on May 17, 1979 to renew the church tower . This then happened in 1981, with a new exterior paint being applied as part of this construction project. In 1992 and 1993, the church was extensively renovated, including the plastering and large parts of the roof and the roof beams.
In 1997 the church underwent an interior restoration. In 2010 restoration and reconstruction work took place again, during which a new organ was installed.
With effect from September 1, 2011, the parish of St. Antonius became part of the newly established parish community of Wadgassen in the Wadgassen deanery . The parish community also includes the parishes of the Visitation of Mary in Wadgassen, the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Hostenbach , the Guardian Angel in Schaffhausen and St. Gangolf in Differten .
Furnishing
The furnishings of the church include a baroque high altar , which was previously located in the Catholic church in the Saarlouis district of Beaumarais . Before the altar was installed in the Werbeln church, the Mettler artist workshop carried out a restoration . In 1971 the altar was removed from the church and placed in the parish garage. After a renovation, the altar was placed in the church again in 1981. In 1928, the artist workshop Mettler, responsible for the restoration of the altar, also supplied the pulpit and the wooden parapet of the gallery with a representation of St. Cecilia , which was no longer in existence .
Further items of equipment could be acquired from the former parish of Heckenbach an der Ahr . Including z. B. a high Gothic monstrance . The windows with saints were made in 1942 by the art workshop Angel ( Saarbrücken ). The wall paintings that were created shortly after the construction of the church , in the style of expressionist church painting , were whitewashed in 1939.
There is a bell in the tower of the church, consisting of three bells in the sizes 480 kg (tone a), 280 kg (tone c) and 200 kg (tone d). They were cast by the Mabilon company ( Saarburg ).
organ
The church received the first organ in 1925. It was an instrument made by the organ building workshop Friedrich Weigle ( Echterdingen ).
Up until the present organ was installed in 2010, there was only one electronic instrument in the church in the previous three decades, the condition of which was getting worse and worse, so that an imminent failure was in sight.
The current organ, an instrument by the organ builder Michael Weise ( Plattling ), was built in 1955 for the parish church of St. Helena in Saarbrücken-Burbach , which had to be closed in 2009 for structural reasons. Due to its good condition, the Werbeln board of directors decided to buy the Weise organ. The Hugo Mayer company ( Heusweiler ) took over the reconstruction of the instrument in the Werbeln church and expanded the organ with an 8 ′ trumpet.
The Kegelladen instrument has 16 registers , divided into two manuals and a pedal . The action mechanism is electro-pneumatic, the stop action is electric. The disposition is as follows:
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Sub-octave coupling: II / I
- Playing aids : 2 free combinations, tutti
Web links
- Parish of St. Antonius Werbeln
- Catholic parish community Hostenbach - Schaffhausen - Werbeln
- Tower recording of the full bells in the Catholic Church of St. Antonius in Wadgassen-Werbeln
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list of the Saarlouis district ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), accessed on July 7, 2014
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Chronicle of the Church and the Parish of Werbeln On: www.werbeln.de, accessed on July 7, 2014
- ↑ according to the decision book of the Wadgasser church council
- ↑ Information on the parish church of St. Gangolf at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on July 7, 2014
- ↑ Establishment of the parish community Wadgassen in the deanery Wadgassen On: cms.bistum-trier.de, accessed on July 7, 2014
- ↑ a b History of the Organ On: www.werbeln.de, accessed on July 7, 2014
- ↑ a b The organ of the parish church St. Antonius von Padua in Werbeln On: www.organindex.de, accessed on July 7, 2014
Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 37.8 " N , 6 ° 47 ′ 48.2" E