St. Augustine (Saarbrücken)

The Church of St. Augustine is a Roman Catholic parish church of the Trier diocese in Saarbrücken . It is located in the Eschberg district and bears the patronage of St. Augustine of Hippo .

history

In the 1950s, the Eschberg was developed as a new residential area in the Saarland capital and numerous apartments were built. As a result, there was a desire for their own church building on site. First of all, the current parish center was built in 1965 and the foundation stone for today's parish church was laid on July 5, 1970. The consecration of the Augustine Church, built according to the plans of Albert Dietz, took place on June 3, 1973 by the Trier bishop Bernhard Stein .

Building description

The parish church without a tower rises on a slope above the center of the Saarbrücken district of Eschberg. Seen from above, its flat roof has the shape of a square with rounded corners.

The floor plan of the church building consists of curved walls, niches and high ribbon windows. Immediately under the roof, a light ribbon of windows runs around the entire church.

The simple interior is brightly plastered and provided with a flat wooden ceiling. To the right of the chancel is a slightly raised and separated area for church music and a choir. The church has no bells.

organ

The organ is in a prominent position to the right of the altar and creates a sculptural impression as it can be seen from all sides. A protruding upper case with stepped towers rises on a slender foot, which contains the swell positive as well as the play cupboard on the back.

The instrument was built in 1983 by the Trier organ building company Rudolf Oehms as Opus 210. It has slide chests as well as a mechanical performance and electrical stop action. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g ³
1.	Bourdon	16 ′
2.	Principal	8th'
3.	Reed flute	8th'
4th	octave	4 ′
5.	recorder	4 ′
6th	Nasard	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
7th	Flat flute	2 ′
8th.	third	1 ³ ⁄ ₅  ′
9.	Mixture V	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
10.	Trumpet	8th'
	Tremulant

II swell positive C – g ³
11.	Wooden dacked	8th'
12.	Willow pipe	8th'
13.	Praestant	4 ′
14th	Open flute	4 ′
15th	Duplicate	2 ′
16.	Fifth	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
17th	Scharff III	1'
18th	Krummhorn	8th'
	Tremulant

Pedal C – f ¹
19th	Principal bass	16 ′
20th	Sub bass	16 ′
21st	Octave bass	8th'
22nd	Dacked bass	8th'
23.	Choral bass	4 ′
24.	bassoon	16 ′

Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Playing aids : 2 free combinations, tutti, tongues down, tremulants freely adjustable

Remarks:

↑ ^a ^b Ab c ⁰
↑ Originally completely open; later the notes C – G sharp were reworked to an acoustic 16 ′: The 16 ′ pipes were cut open on the back to 8 ′ and a second row of pipes 5 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′ was added. From A the register is open.