St. Anthony of Padua (Niedersaubach)

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The Catholic Church of St. Antonius of Padua in Niedersaubach
View inside the church

The Church of St. Antonius von Padua is a Roman Catholic church in Niedersaubach in the Saarland , a district of Lebach , Saarlouis district . It bears the patronage of St. Anthony of Padua . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed. The church is assigned to the diocese of Trier .

history

Until today's village church was built, there had been a small, unadorned chapel in the Niedersaubacher Antoniusstraße, dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua was consecrated. It originated from the time of the four rule, which was exercised by the Electorate of Trier , the Duchy of Lorraine (from 1787 the Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken ), the Lords of Hagen and the Abbess of Fraulautern . The four gentlemen shared the exercise of jurisdiction in the Lebach High Court.

The chapel was last closed because it was in disrepair and was demolished after the current church was built. The Niedersaubach master tailor Matthias Warken was the main initiator of the new church building. After a pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Antonius to Padua , Warken had written a letter to Michael Felix Korum , Bishop of Trier , in order to obtain approval and his support for the building of the church, and organized money collections and the use of the villagers' own contributions. The Biesel and Riehm families from Niedersaubach donated the building site. The costs of the new building were raised by all the families in Niedersaubach and Rümmelbach.

Bath , Catholic parish church of St. Eligius by cathedral builder Julius Wirtz as an architectural model for St. Antonius of Padua in Niedersaubach

The church was built between 1909 and 1910 according to plans by the Trier cathedral builder Julius Wirtz . Shortly before the start of construction in Niedersaubach, Wirtz had designed the church of St. Eligius in the Eifelort bath between 1907 and 1908 , albeit a larger one, at least in terms of the architectural interior and exterior design and the style of a comparable sacred building. Master builder Friedrich Klein (Lebach) was responsible for the construction in Niedersaubach.

From 1957 to 1960 restoration and expansion measures took place . A boiler room was added and retaining walls were built on the outside. Furthermore, the church forecourt was redesigned with the entrance area.

In the years 1977 to 1980 extensive renovation and restoration work took place, which particularly affected the sanctuary . Another restoration was carried out in 1987.

architecture

Niedersaubach St. Antonius, portal facade

The neo-Romanesque sacred building is constructed as a central building on a Greek cross . The western cross arm, which houses the organ gallery, consists of two axes compared to the other arms. The cross arms are arched transversely. The wall surfaces are structured by pilasters and shield arches. This creates flat wall niches. Wide belt arches on pilasters highlight the crossing of the cross arms architecturally. It is vaulted by a dome . The eastern cross arm is narrowed by a massive triumphal arch and leads to the semicircular apse . The interior is designed symmetrically following the central axis.

The exterior of the church follows a pictorial asymmetry in that it is enlivened by a choir flank tower with a small semicircular side apse, the sacristy and an anteroom, and differently staggered components become visible depending on the viewer's point of view. The stone-faced wall surfaces are also designed differently. The main facade shows a richer structure with a stepped portal portal and pipe capitals on basalt column shafts. The arch portal is framed by an aedicula . Flanking blind arches give the rustic sandstone block facade a defiant, monumental character.

Furnishing

As part of the renovation and restoration measures from 1977 to 1980, the church's equipment was partially renewed. The new furnishings in the sanctuary, which have been redesigned in accordance with the requirements of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council , include the celebration altar in the center of the sanctuary, the tabernacle , and the ambo . Together with the new tabernacle, the retable of the Antonius altar, which was originally located in the right cross arm, replaces the previous high altar.

The furnishings also include a war memorial on the rear wall of the church that was redesigned between 1977 and 1988, and the interior was painted over in the same period.

Bells

In 1958, the  Otto (Saarlouis) bell foundry in Saarlouis-Fraulautern, which had been founded by Karl (III) Otto from the  Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and Alois Riewer from Saarland in 1953, cast four bronze bells with the chimes for the church in Niedersaubach : g sharp ′ - h ′ - c sharp ″ - dis ″. The four-part chime was consecrated on December 7, 1958 and rang for the first time on December 24 of the same year. The names, root tones, weights and inscriptions of the bells are as follows:

No. Surname Keynote Weight (kg) inscription
1 Trinity g sharp 600 “Praise God the Father - the uniform Son - and you, Holy Spirit - my metal mouth proclaim - for all eternity.
In filial devotion to the mother church - the daughter church 1958. "
2 Maria H 350 “I am the Immaculate Conception - I call out to pray the Angelus - I exhort to works of penance.
In the 100th year of the apparition in Lourdes in 1958. "
3 Joseph cis 250 “I protect the virgins - I grant help to the dying - I drive away the evil spirits.
N. Schäfer and M. Mailänder donated me in 1958 "
4th Antony dis 200 “I protect the church and village - I call the living to worship - I implore the dead to rest - I break lightning and hail.
"The civil parish donated me in 1958" "

swell

Institute for Contemporary Art in Saarland, archive, holdings Lebach, St. Antonius (Dossier K 921)

literature

  • The Catholic Saarland, Heimat und Kirche, Ed .: L. Sudbrack and A. Jakob, Volume II / III, Saarbrücken 1954, p. 39.
  • Handbook of the Diocese of Trier, 20th edition, Trier 1952, p. 287.
  • Historical Association Lebach (publisher): Catholic Filialkirche St. Antonius Niedersaubach , in: Historischer Kalender Lebach 2009, Die Lebacher Kirchen, Lebach 2009.
  • Marschall, Kristine: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland . Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 978-3-923877-40-9 , p. 666 .
  • Franz Ronig: The Church of the 19th Century in the Diocese of Trier, in: Art of the 19th Century in the Rhineland, Vol. I, Düsseldorf 1980, p. 263.
  • Werner Schmidt (Ed.): 100 Years of the St. Antonius Chapel - Niedersaubach, 1910–2010. Festschrift . Media Design, Lebach 2010 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : St. Antonius von Padua (Niedersaubach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments in the Saarlouis district  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 347 kB), accessed on July 28, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.saarland.de  
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 15, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lebach.de
  3. ↑ http://www.katholische-kirche-lebach.de/wir-ueber-uns/unsere-kirchen/niedersaubach/ , accessed on March 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacral Buildings of Classicism and Historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 150–151.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Information on the branch church / chapel St. Antonius von Padua on: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on July 28, 2013
  6. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacral Buildings of Classicism and Historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 293–294, pp. 531 and 624.
  7. ↑ 100 years of St. Antonius Niedersaubach on: www.katholische-kirche-lebach.de. Retrieved July 28, 2013
  8. ↑ Historical Calendar 2009 - The Lebach Churches (PDF; 62 MB) On: historischer-verein-lebach.de, accessed on July 28, 2013
  9. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, in particular pages 89-95, 568 .
  10. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, in particular pp. 105–112, 518 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  11. ↑ Information on the four bells on: www.katholische-kirche-lebach.de. Retrieved July 28, 2013

Coordinates: 49 ° 25 '27.3 "  N , 6 ° 55' 7.1"  E