St. Barbara (Stennweiler)
The Church of St. Barbara and St. Isidor is a Catholic parish church in Stennweiler in Saarland , a district of the municipality of Schiffweiler , Neunkirchen district . Church patrons are St. Barbara and St. Isidore . In the list of monuments of the Saarland the church building is a single monument listed.
history
After a sharp increase in population in the late 19th century, as a result of which Stennweiler's population doubled from 445 to almost 800, the Stennweiler Catholics wanted their own place of worship in the 1890s. To realize this wish, a church building association was founded in 1901 . Initially, it was planned to build a joint church with the Catholics of the neighboring village of Welschbach (since 1974 part of Illingen ), but discussions about this later failed, and so a separate church building was built in Stennweiler.
Before today's church was built, a rented inn hall was used for Sunday services from 1905 .
The construction costs were originally supposed to be 78,000 marks , but then rose to 83,000 marks in the course of the construction work, of which the Stennweiler Catholics raised 70,000 marks. After the construction work had been awarded in the winter of 1911/1912, the foundation stone was laid on May 19, 1912 for the church, which was built in neo-Gothic style according to plans by the architect Moritz Gombert ( Saarbrücken ) . The completed church was inaugurated on November 17, 1912.
Stennweiler received the status of a vicarie in 1921 and a chapel parish in 1922 . In 1926 the place was finally raised to an independent parish .
In the years 1977 to 1989 the church underwent several renovations and restorations . In 1989 the interior was restored, in which the company Philipps ( Bernkastel-Kues ) carried out the interior painting and the church painter Günter Daniel ( Geisenheim ) took over the artistic design of the painting.
Furnishing
The high altar , which was built in the 1920s, is located in the choir of the church . It is decorated on the right and left with the two patron saints . The celebration altar in front of it was created from parts of the former communion bench . To the right of the choir, in the corner of the epistle page , is the restored pulpit . On the right-hand side in front of the central nave is a mural entitled “St. Barbara as the protector of the miners and their families from the Schiffweiler shafts ”, which was uncovered, documented and preserved. In addition, the church is equipped with a baptistery , a war memorial, a chapel dedicated to the Holy Family , to the side of the choir, and a side altar on the Gospel side . On the outside of the main portal there is a mosaic with a portrait of the Virgin Mary and a stone that points to the builder, the architect Gombert.
organ
The organ of the church was built in 1953 by the French organ builder Haerpfer & Erman ( Boulay ). The cone shop instrument is set up on a gallery and has 18 stops , divided into 2 manuals and pedal . The game and stop action is electro-pneumatic. The disposition is as follows:
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Super octave coupling: I / I
- Playing aids : 1 free combination, tutti, tongue down, register crescendo kick
literature
- Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland . Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 3-923877-40-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list district Neunkirchen (PDF; 1.3 MB), accessed on May 7, 2013
- ^ A b c Purper, Rolf: 100 years of consecration in Stennweiler . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , November 24, 2012, accessed on May 7, 2013.
- ↑ a b c Information on the parish church of St. Barbara Stennweiler at: www.kunstlexikonsaar, accessed on May 7, 2013
- ^ Organ of the parish church of St. Barbara Stennweiler On: organindex.de, accessed on March 6, 2015
Coordinates: 49 ° 23 '18.6 " N , 7 ° 6' 49.2" E