St. Anthony of Padua (resting place)

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Former monastery church of St. Anthony of Padua, Malstatt-Rastpfuhl

The Catholic Church of St. Antonius of Padua is a church building of the three parishes (St. Antonius, St. Paulus and St. Josef ) united since January 1st, 2006 in the upper and lower Malstatt in the pastoral care unit St. Josef (Saarbrücken) in the deanery Saarbrücken of the Diocese of Trier and stands in the Saarbrücken district of Malstatt on the Rastpfuhl . It bears the patronage of St. Anthony of Padua .

history

St. Anthony of Padua (Rastpfuhl), interior in the original expressionist design; Marien Altar (left), high altar with crucifixion scene in the apse, Antonius-von-Padua-Altar (right)

In 1920 the Franciscan order bought the Rastpfuhl 12 house at the end of the upper Malstatt at that time. On April 21, 1929 the construction of today's church of St. Anthony of Padua and the monastery buildings began. The plans came from the Saarbrücken architect Moritz Gombert. The solemn laying of the foundation stone took place on June 9, 1929, and the church was consecrated on December 15, 1929. The construction of the monastery had to be interrupted for a long time due to lack of funds and was only completed in 1930.

The Bishop of Trier, Franz Rudolf Bornewasser, set up the pastoral care district of St. Antonius without its own asset management, dependent on the mother parish of St. Josef in Malstatt. He entrusted the pastoral care of the young community on the Rastpfuhl to a member of the monastery . After war damage and changes in reconstruction, a parish home with a kindergarten was built in Lebacher Strasse in 1953. In 1954, St. Antonius was officially raised from a vicarie to a parish. In 1965 the Franciscans sold the monastery church and the monastery to the diocese of Trier and the parish and established a Franciscan educational facility in the nearby Rhönweg. The parish opens a kindergarten and a parish office. The parish home with kindergarten on Lebacher Strasse was rented to Caritas in 1981 and sold in 1997. As a result, extensive renovation work was initiated on the former monastery building and the Catholic University of Applied Sciences for Social Work began its activities here. The technical college was closed in 2008. The course was relocated to the University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Saarbrücken .

In 1999 the Franciscan order gave up its educational establishment in the Rhönweg and ended its pastoral work in Saarbrücken. In 2002 the parish built a new meeting place for the parish on the Malstätter Rastpfuhl with the reconstruction of the parish office and parish rooms.

architecture

The church was built in the style of abstraction historicism . The original crystalline expressionist forms of the windows, portals and large-format altar structures were replaced by arched forms after severe damage in the Second World War . The barrel vault was replaced by a flat wooden ceiling. Between 1970 and 1971 the church was restored and the chancel rebuilt. In 1984 the interior was restored.

Furnishing

  • The St. Wendel sculptor Heinz Heuer created the St. Antonius statue on the church facade in 1929. It was originally located above a round window on the church facade. After the round window had been bricked up during the reconstruction phase, the statue was put back a little deeper than before.
  • The Trier sculptor Anton Nagel created a protective coat Madonna in 1939 .
  • The sculptor Paul Schneider from Merzig - Bietzen created a baptismal font with symbols of the 4 evangelists in 1952 .
  • In the years 1955–1956, the glass painter Emil Probst designed a window cycle with 11 windows depicting Franciscan saints: The rose miracle of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia , The Stigmatization of St. Francis of Assisi , King Louis the Saint in adoration of the crown of thorns of Jesus, St. During an attack by the Saracens in 1240, Clare of Assisi confronts them with the monstrance , St. Doctor of the Church Bonaventure as theologian at the writing desk, Maria Immaculata with the baby Jesus, Johannes Duns Scotus in adoration of the Blessed Mother, St. Anthony of Padua with the baby Jesus, Francis of Assisi preaches to the birds, Anthony of Padua helps the poor, Anthony of Padua preaches to the fish in Rimini because his attempt to offer the townspeople a sermon against the teachings of the Cathars had failed.
  • The Düsseldorf sculptor Otto Brissmann created a statue of Antonius in 1956.
  • Josef Höttges ( Mönchengladbach ) created Stations of the Cross using the linocut technique in 1958 .
  • The sculptor Albert Erny from Colmar in Alsace created the main altar with cross in 1961.
  • The Christmas altar cloths were created in 1976 by the textile artist Dorothea Zech ( Heusweiler ).
  • In 1984, the Trier artist Willi Hahn created the altar plate with a frieze and the ambo with an inscription from Job 4:12: "A word stole from me, it whispered to my ear". In 1988 he also made the tabernacle .
  • The Antonius reliquary dates from 1929.
  • The painting “Maria Hilf” in the entrance area was made in 1931.
  • The wooden portal dates from 1929.
  • The starvation kerchiefs were made in 1975.
  • The altar cloth dates from 1978, the amboantependium from 1979.
  • In 1984 new bronze stations of the cross and a new wooden crucifixion group were made.
  • The Franziskuskapelle serves as a weekday church.

Peal

In the bell room of the roof ridge turret there is a bronze bell with the disposition d ". It was cast by the Saarburg bell foundry Mabilon in 1929 and is consecrated to St. Francis of Assisi . The bell weighs 190 kg and has a diameter of 67 cm The Antonius bell, which was also cast in 1929, was removed and melted down for war purposes in 1940. The bell has a striking mechanism.

literature

  • St. Antonius, Catholic parish Saarbrücken-Rastpfuhl, 1937–1987, Rhenania Franciscana, family sheet of the Cologne Franciscan Province of the Three Wise Men, Supplement 6, ed. v. Otho Gimmnich (OFM) and Bernward Kliewer (OFM), Saarbrücken 1987.

swell

  • Institute for contemporary art in Saarland, archive, holdings Saarbrücken, St. Antonius (Dossier K 900)

Web links

Commons : St. Anthony of Padua  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.stjosef-saarbruecken.de/ , accessed on September 26, 2014.
  2. ↑ St. Antonius, Catholic parish Saarbrücken-Rastpfuhl, 1937–1987, Rhenania Franciscana, family sheet of the Cologne Franciscan Province of the Three Kings, Supplement 6, ed. v. Otho Gimmnich (OFM) and Bernward Kliewer (OFM), Saarbrücken 1987.
  3. ↑ http://www.stjosef-saarbruecken.de/index.php?id=123
  4. ↑ http://www.kunstlexikonsaar.de/architektur/artikel/-/kirchenbau-und-kunst-im-sakralen-raum-nach-1945-im-saarland-katholische-kirchen-regionalverband-sa-11/ , accessed on September 26, 2014.
  5. ↑ St. Antonius, Catholic parish Saarbrücken-Rastpfuhl, 1937–1987, Rhenania Franciscana, family sheet of the Cologne Franciscan Province of the Three Kings, Supplement 6, ed. v. Otho Gimmnich (OFM) and Bernward Kliewer (OFM), Saarbrücken 1987.
  6. ↑ St. Antonius, Catholic parish Saarbrücken-Rastpfuhl, 1937–1987, Rhenania Franciscana, family sheet of the Cologne Franciscan Province of the Three Kings, Supplement 6, ed. v. Otho Gimmnich (OFM) and Bernward Kliewer (OFM), Saarbrücken 1987.
  7. ↑ http://www.kunstlexikonsaar.de/architektur/artikel/-/kirchenbau-und-kunst-im-sakralen-raum-nach-1945-im-saarland-katholische-kirchen-regionalverband-sa-11/ , accessed on September 26, 2014.
  8. ↑ Measurement from March 9, 2019 by Patrick Sycha in contrast to the information from Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: Die Glocken des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken 1997, p. 137: 150 kg, Ø 57.5 cm.

Coordinates: 49 ° 15 ′ 9.1 ″  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 46.3 ″  E