St. Barbara (Dudweiler)

The parish church of St. Barbara in Dudweiler

The St. Barbara Church is a Catholic parish church dedicated to St. Barbara in Dudweiler , a district of the Saarland capital of Saarbrücken . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.

history

Due to the increasing importance of coal mining in Dudweiler from the second half of the 18th century, the population of the place steadily increased, and with it the number of Catholics in the parish of St. Maria Himmelfahrt ( St. Marien Dudweiler ). In 1954 the parish had around 12,000 Catholics. For this reason, and also because the parish church of St. Marien no longer offered enough space, two new pastoral care districts, St. Barbara and St. Bonifatius, were separated from the mother parish of St. Mary in April 1954 and two new parish churches were planned. Due to the large number of miners' families, it made sense to dedicate one of the new parish churches to be built to St. Barbara, the patron saint of miners. An emergency church was built in 1950 on the corner of Rentrischer Strasse and Gerstnershaus .

The construction plans for the new church were drawn up by Saarwellingen architects Heinrich Latz and Anton Laub . On December 4, 1954, the groundbreaking ceremony took place and the foundation stone was laid on 27 May 1956. Two years later, on 20 July 1958 the church could benediziert be, and the first services were held in the shell. In October 1959, the Rudolf Cons company received the order to build the entrance hall and the bell tower . On January 1, 1961, the parish of St. Barbara was raised to an independent parish. The interior of the church was not completed until 1977 with the completion of the organ. The parish of St. Barbara belonged to about 3300 Catholics at that time. In 2011 there were around 1,800 parishioners.

architecture

The patronage of St. Barbara, the patron saint of miners, is also evident in the architecture of the church building, which has the features of a mine . The actual church building resembles a lecture hall in which the tasks and the results of each working group in the mine are read out. The bell tower is modeled on a mine winding tower . The church building is a hall church with a floor plan that tapers slightly towards the choir . Inside the church, the reinforced concrete pillars of the side walls protrude into the room, on which cross steel beams rest, on which the flat vaulted ceiling rests.

Furnishing

The church windows , which were designed in 1957 by the French artist Gabriel Loire ( Chartres ), who also created the windows in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin , are worth seeing .

Also noteworthy components of the equipment inside the church are mainly the work of the sculptor Hans Scherl ( Wittlich ), of the Tabernacle (a gift from the former Saarland Prime Minister Franz-Josef Röder ), which in bronze cast altar cross with full sized Corpus (1967) and the protective mantle Madonna made of limewood (1962) over the right side altar.

At the beginning of the 1990s, the vestibule was equipped with a statue of Barbara by the sculptor Horst Schmidt ( Illingen ).

Bells

After completion of the bell tower, the first and largest bell, the Barbaraglocke, could be consecrated on December 11, 1960. In the next two years, three more bells were added. The bells were cast by the Saarlouiser bell foundry in Saarlouis-Fraulautern, which was founded in 1953 by Karl (III) Otto from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and Aloxs Riewer. The bells ring freely in the open tower.

No.	Surname	volume	diameter (in mm)	Weight (kg)
1	St. Barbara	c ¹	1563	2540
2	St. Karl	d ¹	1357	1700
3	St. Mary	e ¹	1209	1200
4th	St. Joseph	g ¹	1030	720

organ

Organ loft

The organ of the church was built from 1958 to 1977 in several stages by the Hugo Mayer Orgelbau company ( Heusweiler ). The purchase of the instrument was only possible because many parish members, especially the parish church choir, organized festivals and bazaars, the proceeds of which secured the financing of the organ. In the meantime the organ was cleaned and overhauled by Werner Rohé ( Eschringen ).

The instrument, which is set up on a gallery , has a free-standing and mobile console and has 36 registers , divided into 3 manuals and pedal , as well as an electric playing and register action .

I Hauptwerk C – g ³
1.	Pipe pommer	16 ′
2.	Principal	8th'
3.	Coupling flute	8th'
4th	Octave	4 ′
5.	Open flute	4 ′
6th	Nazard	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
7th	Octave	2 ′
8th.	Mixture major III-IV	2 ′
9.	Mixture minor III – IV	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
10.	Trumpet	8th'

II Positive C-g ³
11.	Dumped	8th'
12.	Salicional	8th'
13.	Principal	4 ′
14th	Night horn	4 ′
15th	Sesquialter II
16.	Principal	2 ′
17th	Night horn	1'
18th	Cymbel IV
19th	Krummhorn	8th'

III Swell C – g ³
20th	Metal dacked	8th'
21st	Wooden flute	8th'
22nd	Violin principal	4 ′
23.	Reed flute	4 ′
24.	recorder	2 ′
25th	Fifth	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
26th	Scharff III – V	1'
27.	Dulcean	16 ′
28.	Schalmay	8th'

Pedal C – f ¹
29	Principal bass	16 ′
30th	Sub bass	16 ′
31.	Octavbass	8th'
32.	Wooden dacked	8th'
33.	Chorale flute	4 ′
34.	Back set IV	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
35.	trombone	16 ′
36.	Hautbois	8th'

Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
Playing aids : two free combinations, tutti, individual tongue storage, roller, roller off

literature

The church window of St. Barbara Dudweiler. Photos by Gerd Gombert. Editor Jürgen Kunz. Saarbrücken 1985.
Festschrift: 50 years of the parishes of St. Barbara and St. Bonifatius. 1954-2004.
Bastian Müller: Post-war architecture in Saarland. Saarbrücken 2011, p. 152. (= Preservation of historical monuments in Saarland, 4.)

Web links

Commons : St. Barbara - collection of images, videos and audio files

Saarbrücken, Dudweiler (Dudweiler) district, Catholic parish church of St. Barbara. Kunstlexikon Saar - Institute for contemporary art in Saarland
Full bell of the Catholic parish church St. Barbara in Saarbrücken-Dudweiler on YouTube
Literature on St. Barbara (Dudweiler) in the Saarland Bibliography

Individual evidence

↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments state capital Saarbrücken (PDF; 653 kB), accessed on November 6, 2012

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Information on the parish church of St. Barbara at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on June 6, 2020.

^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular 569 .

↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular 519 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (PhD thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).

↑ Organ of the Church of St. Barbara (Catholic) ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. Info page of the Orgeln im Saarland website , accessed on November 6, 2012 @1@ 2

49.272539 7.05222Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 21.1 ″ N , 7 ° 3 ′ 8 ″ E

[denkmal-1] List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments state capital Saarbrücken (PDF; 653 kB), accessed on November 6, 2012

[info-2] Information on the parish church of St. Barbara at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on June 6, 2020.

[3] Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular 569 .

[4] Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular 519 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (PhD thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).