St. Barbara (Blickweiler)
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The St. Barbara Church is a Catholic parish church dedicated to St. Barbara in Blickweiler , a district of Blieskastel in the Saar- Palatinate district of Saarland .
history
The first church building dedicated to Saint Romaricus was probably built in Blickweiler around the year 1000, as the Dagstuhl family, who owned property in Blickweiler, inherited this first church around 1050 and had a new building built in 1163. Countess Elisabeth von Blieskastel obliged the newly founded Wilhelmitenkloster Gräfinthal , the Blickweiler parish and the associated Blieskastel branch to be provided in 1242 .
During the Thirty Years War the nave was destroyed in 1633, only the tower remained. In 1690 the church was rebuilt. In 1733 the current nave was built and consecrated , and in 1774 it was enlarged.
The parish in Blickweiler was provided by the lords of the canons of St. Sebastian in Blieskastel until 1785 and belonged to the diocese of Metz until 1803 , then came to Trier and finally to Speyer in 1817 . Since 1822 the church and parish have had the patronage of St. Barbara. This happened at the request of the miners from Blickweiler, whose patron saint is Saint Barbara.
In 1928 the church was expanded according to plans by the architect Carl Miltz ( Munich ), with a new nave being added to the north of the 18th century nave . An organ gallery was built in the previous nave . In the course of the expansion measures, the confessional chamber built by Friedrich von Eltz on the north side of the tower in 1540 was demolished and rebuilt as a warrior chapel. After being severely damaged in World War II , the church was restored and restored in 1948 and 1949 . Further restorations took place in 1964, 1985–88 and most recently in 2005.
During the restoration work in 1964, the painter Ernst Alt from Saarbrücken created the altarpiece of St. Barbara on the back wall of the choir room .
Tower and bells
The tower from the 12th / 13th centuries Century is the oldest part of the church building and is a listed building . It belongs to the group of so-called "Hornbacher Towers", which are characterized by a double-sided gable roof . The tower is divided into two parts by bevels. In the lower part, in which the main entrance portal is located , two floors rise above a base , in the upper part there are adjoining sound openings with pointed arches , separated by a simple profiled rod.
There is a bell in the tower consisting of three bells that were cast in 1964 by the Paccard bell foundry in Annecy .
| No. | Surname | volume | Weight (kg) |
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| 1 | St. Joseph | g 1 | 770 |
| 2 | St. Mary Rosary Queen | b 1 | 385 |
| 3 | St. Barbara | c 2 | 280 |
organ
The organ of the church was built in 1964 by the organ building workshop Hugo Mayer Orgelbau ( Heusweiler ) and has 21 registers , distributed over two manuals and pedal . The instrument is set up on a gallery .
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : two free combinations, tutti, crescendo, crescendo starting
- Slider drawer .
- Game table : free-standing.
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Action :
- Electric sound tract.
- Electric stop action.
literature
- Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: The churches in the Saar-Palatinate district . Saarbrücken 1987.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d History of the Cath. Parish Church of St. Barbara Blickweiler on the website of the Catholic Parish Community of St. Sebastian Blieskastel and St. Barbara Blickweiler ( Memento from September 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c Information on the parish church of St. Barbara at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on August 22, 2012
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list Saarpfalz-Kreis (PDF; 1.2 MB), accessed on August 22, 2012
- ^ Organ database , accessed on July 29, 2016
Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′ 46 " N , 7 ° 15 ′ 11.3" E