St. Blasius and Martinus (Saarwellingen)

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St. Blaise and Martinus
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St. Blasius and Martinus is the patronage of a parish and a parish church in Saarwellingen in the Saarland . The parish belongs to the Diocese of Trier and has been the seat of the Saarwellingen parish community since September 1st, 2011 . The patronage day of the church is the feast day of the holy helper Blasius von Sebaste on February 3rd . The second day of patronage is the feast day of St. Martin of Tours on November 11th ( St. Martin's Day ).

Parish

history

The first written mention of the parish dates back to 953. In a list of the parishes of Archbishop Ruotbert von Trier (931–956) obliged to pilgrimage to Mettlach , Saarwellingen appears, at that time still under the name Wellingen or in Latin Vailingua . The St. Martin's patronage , however, indicates that the parish was older, while today's main patron, Blasius von Sebaste, came later. After various changes of territory in recent years (especially on September 1, 2007), the parish now has around 7,500 Catholics. A large part of the area of ​​the former parish of St. Pius Saarwellingen also belongs to the area of ​​the parish . The former parish church of this parish is now a branch church of the parish of St. Blasius and Martinus. On September 1, 2011, the Bishop of Trier established the Saarwellingen parish community , which includes the parish of St. Blasius and Martinus with their St. Pius branch, as well as the Saarwellingen parishes of St. Bartholomäus and St. Marien with the Maria Königin parish. The pastor's office is St. Blasius and Martinus.

Chaplain

St. Blasius and Martinus (Saarwellingen), rectory
St. Blasius and Martinus (Saarwellingen), parish home
  • Bernd Seibel, pastor
  • P. Johannes Bosco Thy OCist, Cooperator
  • Shayju Nedungattu Joseph, chaplain
  • Andreas Philipp, Deacon
  • Rainer Ney, deacon
  • Silke Höhne, community officer
  • Daniele Weber, community officer

Parish church

architecture

Exterior

The predecessor building of today's neo-Gothic parish church was a small three-axis hall building from the 18th century with a retracted, three-sided closing choir and a presented west tower with a high bent helmet on a rectangular floor plan. At the end of the 19th century the building was in poor condition and no longer sufficient for the population of Saarwellingen, which had grown due to industrialization.

First, in August 1896, the Saarlouis master builder Hermann Ballenberg was commissioned to plan the construction of a new church, but then the task was handed over to the Trier architect Ernst Brand. Brand's estimate was 110,000 marks. On September 8, 1897, the construction plan was approved by the Trier Episcopal Vicariate. The state authorities then also agreed with the reference to cost-saving changes. These planning modifications envisaged a reduction in the size of the church interior and the abandonment of the organ gallery. In addition, the tower was initially only to be covered with an emergency roof and the Eifel sandstone planned by the architect had to be replaced with sandstone from neighboring quarries. The building trades were awarded on May 8, 1898. The building was created by the Saarbrücken contractor Johann Georg Rau.

The cornerstone ceremony was celebrated on July 24, 1898. The consecration of the house of God by the Trier bishop Michael Felix Korum was already celebrated on May 27, 1900 . As a result, the previous Baroque church was torn down in 1901 and a cemetery was built in its place. The building is designed as a three-aisled stepped hall with a small, aligned north-west transept and an expansive south-east transept. The side choirs close flat and open to the choir and transept.

The apse with a 5/8 end faces northeast. The 62.10 m high tower with an accompanying stair tower is located in front of the central nave in the southwest of the building. It is considered the highest church tower in the area. The church was built from light-colored sandstone.

The entrance side is divided into the church tower and flanking transept arms with side portals and a raised hipped roof. The tower, divided by cornices, is surrounded by stepped buttresses. The high bell floor opens into three ogival arcades with two-lane neo-late Gothic tracery and each with a square dial underneath. Pointed gables rise up on all four sides of the tower and merge into the helmet zone. The corners of the tower are emphasized by four gargoyles.

The slated helmet initially rises as a steep pyramid, forms four corner turrets with pointed kinked helmets, and then merges into a tapering octagon. The decoration is limited to the side portals. These are each crowned by a rectangular tympanum with a three-passport, flowers and decorative stones decorated with leaves. Above it, larger-than-life statues of the Virgin Mary (left) and St. John the Baptist (right) rise in pointed arched niches with neo-late Gothic tracery on consoles. In 1953, the middle double entrance was given a tympanum rectangle depicting the "Good Shepherd". Up until then, a neo-late Gothic tracery arch field with Wimperg that was damaged in the Second World War had been located here.

The flat, inclined monopitch roofs on the side aisles connect to the high gable roof of the central nave. The ridge line of the central nave runs through to the choir. The transepts start a little lower with their ridge. The outer walls of the side aisles and the apse are structured by buttresses and pointed arch windows. The church windows have two-lane tracery with clover-leaf arches and neo-late Gothic tracery. On the front of the south-east transept, the two pointed arch windows and a small rose window above are combined by a large blind arch. The side portal below consists of a porch with a pointed gable. The gable of the transept is decorated with a group of three narrow lancet windows.

The parish church in Saarwellingen was affected by an earthquake caused by mining on February 23, 2008. Several stones broke out of the front gable of the church tower and fell onto the church stairs. The side gables of the tower loosened. Further cracks appeared in the interior of the church after the previous earthquakes.

  • Tower front

  • Tower portal with the relief of the Good Shepherd from 1953

  • Side portal with statue of the Virgin Mary

  • Side portal with the statue of John the Baptist

  • Side view

  • Transept

  • apse

  • Transept

Interior

The three naves are divided into four bays. While the dividing arches have rounded corners, the belt arches are decorated with throat and round bar profiles. The belt arches and ribs of the aisles end on consoles in the combat zone. The windows are flanked by flat pilaster strips and arches. The yokes are vaulted with ribs. The crossing is emphasized by bundle pillars. These consist of a round shaft that is surrounded by eight round pillars. A star vault rises above the crossing. Fighters and consoles are decorated with chestnut, oak and vine leaves.

The apse houses the high altar with tabernacle , while the celebration altar was placed in the crossing between the nave and the transept as a result of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council . In the west, the gallery for the organ and church choir extends across the entire width of the room . The organ gallery has a round arch in each aisle and three pointed arches in the central nave.

organ

View from the altar to the Walcker organ

Today's organ in the Blasius Church was built in 1995 by the organ building company Eberhard Friedrich Walcker , reusing material from two previous organs: on the one hand, an organ from 1903, built by the organ builder Gerhardt ( Boppard am Rhein ), and an organ from 1953 which was built by the organ builder Haerpfer & Erman ( Boulay-Moselle ). Today's organ was played on Palm Sunday 1995 by the Freiburg cathedral organist Ludwig Doerr and consecrated by Albert André . The then cantor of St. Blasius, Johannes Racke, played a key role in planning the renovation. The instrument has 43 registers , divided into three manuals and pedal . What is striking is the relatively high proportion of reed voices in ten registers in a total of 43 registers in the German-speaking area .

I Rückpositiv C – a 3
1. Wooden dacked 8th'
2. Quintad 8th' *
3. Principal (P) 4 ′
4th Reed flute 4 ′ *
5. Schwiegel 2 ′ *
6th Nasard 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′ *
7th Zimbel IV *
8th. Krummhorn 8th' *
9. shelf 4 ′ *
Tremulant
II main work C – a 3
10. Bourdon 16 ′ *
11. Principal (P) 8th'
12. Covered 8th' *
13. octave 4 ′ *
14th flute 4 ′ *
15th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ *
16. Super octave 2 ′ *
17th Cornet v *
18th Mixture IV-VI *
19th Trumpet 8th' *
III Swell C – a 3
20th Hollow flute 8th' *
21st Salicional 8th' *
22nd Beat 8th'
23. Principal 4 ′ *
24. Gemshorn 4 ′ *
25th recorder 2 ′ *
26th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′ *
27. Sif flute 1' *
28. Scharff V *
29 bassoon 16 ′ *
30th Trompette harmonique 8th' *
31. oboe 8th'
32. Clairon 4 ′ *
Tremulant
Pedal C – g 1
33. Principal 16 ′ *
34. Sub-bass 16 ′ *
35. Fifth bass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
36. Octave bass (P) 8th'
37. Bass flute 8th' *
38. Chorale bass 4 ′ *
39. Flat flute 4 ′ *
40. Rauschpfeife V *
41. trombone 16 ′ *
42. Trumpet 8th'
43. Clairon 4 ′
(P) = prospectus register
* = Stops from the previous organ

Chimes

The chime includes four bronze bells from 1951. They were cast by the Mabilon bell foundry in Saarburg . Their casting had become necessary because the earlier bells had been confiscated by the state during the two world wars and melted down for armament purposes.

The full bell can be heard on Sundays (outside of Advent and Lent ) and on high festivals from fifteen minutes before the beginning of the church services, partial chimes can be heard on weekdays and on other occasions. For individual bells are almost invariably Blasius bell and Marie bell used, namely the so-called. Erstläuten thirty minutes before Eucharistic celebrations . The Blasius bell is also rung individually as a death bell when a member of the community dies and when going to the cemetery, and the Marien bell as a prayer bell three times a day at 6:00 am, 12:00 pm and 6:00 pm except on Good Friday and Holy Saturday . The ringing of Sundays and high feasts the evening before is no longer practiced at the moment.

No. Nominal Surname Weight Casting year Bell caster
1 d 1 Blasius 34 Ztr. 1951 Mabilon
2 e 1 Martinus 26 Ztr. 1951 Mabilon
3 f sharp 1 Maria 15 ct. 1951 Mabilon
4th a 1 Barbara 10 Ztr. 1951 Mabilon

literature

  • Hans-Berthold Busse: Saarwellingen, Parish Church St. Blasius, in: Archive for Medieval Church History, Church Monument Preservation in the Diocese of Trier, Volume 44, 1992, p. 454.
  • Gerhard Maiworm u. a. (Ed.): 100 years of the parish church of St. Blasius and St. Martinus Saarwellingen , Merzig 2000.
  • Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, p. 215 and p. 329–330, 568 and 629.
  • Klaus Mayer: The four old Saarwellingen parish churches before 1900, in: Our homeland, vol. 27, Saarlouis 2002, pp. 53–56.
  • Parish of St. Blasius and Martinus (Saarwellingen): Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of the parish church of St. Blasius Saarwellingen 1900–1975, Saarwellingen 1975.

Web links

Commons : Saint Blaise and Martin Church (Saarwellingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Establishment deed of the parish community ( Memento from September 30, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacral Buildings of Classicism and Historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, p. 215 and p. 329–330, 568 and 629.
  3. ^ RAG Deutsche Steinkohle has opened an information and advice center in Reisbach. , accessed December 24, 2016.
  4. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacral Buildings of Classicism and Historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, p. 215 and p. 329–330, 568 and 629.

Coordinates: 49 ° 21 ′ 15.6 "  N , 6 ° 48 ′ 34.4"  E