St. Eligius (Saarbrücken-Burbach)

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Burbach, St.Eligius, tower facade
Carl Friedrich Müller (born June 14, 1833 in Hersfeld; † August 1, 1889 ibid.), Master builder of the Saarlouis district, architect of the St. Eligius Church in Burbach, photo from 1870

The Catholic Church of St. Eligius is the parish church of the Saarbrücken St. Eligius parish in the Saarbrücken deanery of the Trier diocese and is located on Bergstrasse in the Saarbrücken district of Burbach . It bears the patronage of St. Eligius , the patron saint of metal workers and miners , and thus refers to the history of Burbach, which was shaped by mining and smelting. The church is assigned to the diocese of Trier . Church patronage day is December 1st.

history

Burbach, St. Eligius, choir view with rectory
Burbach, St. Eligius, interior of the church with a view of the apse
Burbach, St. Eligius, interior of the church with a view of the gallery

The church was built in the years 1868–70 and 1871–73 by the Saarlouis master builder Carl Friedrich Müller under the local site management of Hugo Dihm (Saarbrücken) and his technical building supervisor and deputy building inspector Lieber and Julius Garisch von Culmberger. The foundation stone was ceremonially laid on May 23, 1869. Construction work had to be interrupted by the Franco-German War . During the construction work, Dihm and Lieber made changes to Müller's original plan. At first, Dihm designed the bell cage incorrectly, so that it had to be rebuilt again.

The Eligius Church was completed in the summer of 1873. But it could not be inaugurated directly because the Trier bishop Matthias Eberhard had not named a pastor. According to the May Laws of 1873, which had been promulgated shortly before, the diocese should have proposed a candidate to the Prussian authorities, who would then have been examined by the government for reliability and qualifications. Since the German bishops rejected this procedure as the submission of the Catholic Church to Otto von Bismarck's anti-Catholic policy , the Burbach pastor could not be filled. When, in June 1873, important Catholic notables from Burbach called on the residents to oppose Bismarck's religious policy, the situation escalated. One of the main initiators was sentenced by the authorities in Saarbrücken to three weeks in prison and a fine of 100 thalers. Saarbrücken's liberal newspapers, loyal to the Reich, unanimously condemned the resistance of the Burbach Catholics and described them as "enemies of the Reich" and "dark men", referring to the letters from the 16th century.

When, on October 28, 1874, the Eligius Church in Burbach could finally be consecrated by the Trier auxiliary bishop Johann Jakob Kraft , this was celebrated like a victory by the Burbach Catholics. The Catholic houses were festively decorated. There were pictures of saints and of Pope Pius IX. set up. A banner with a provocative inscription had also been unveiled, referring to the Jesus rock word ( Mt 16:18  EU ): “Whether angry hell goes to battle, whether wickedness, lies and deceit raise the voice, whether storms and waves hits the rock, the ninth Pius stands and does not waver. "

The state authorities, which had tried to prevent the inauguration of St. Eligius, demonstratively stayed away from the celebrations. Only when the disputes of the Kulturkampf had subsided did St. Eligius receive a first pastor - 10 years after the inauguration. In 1892, the "Burbach Catholic Association" was established, which developed into an important parish hall and functioned as a meeting place for Burbach's Catholic associations (workers' association, youth association, congregation of young women, rosary association). The Catholic associations should help preserve denominational and social identity. However, numerous Catholic officials have been pressured by their superiors to stay away from such activities.

The parish of St. Eligius was established on May 8, 1885.

In the years 1890 and 1914 restoration measures , especially on the tower , had to be initiated. In 1950, when war damage was repaired, the Trier architect Heinrich Schneider had to expand the building. In the years 1958–1960 the church was also rebuilt: the interior was redesigned and the church received a larger Marienkapelle. The architect Fritz Thoma from Trier was in charge of the redesign.

On October 1, 2004, the then Bishop of Trier Reinhard Marx established the parish and parish Saarbrücken St. Eligius , in which the previous Burbach parishes of St. Eligius , Herz Jesu and St. Helena were merged and united.

In April 2014, a newly laid out and publicly accessible garden was opened south of the church. At the same time a new parish hall was inaugurated.

architecture

The church building was built as a neo-Gothic new building. It is a three-aisled hall church , which from north to south in an outline church tower with spire , nave , transept and five-sided polygonal abschließendem choir has.

Exterior

The neo-Gothic hall church has a three-aisled nave, which is divided into four bays. A choir bay and a three-sided choir closure are connected to the projecting transept. The church tower in front of the nave is provided with buttresses placed across the corner on the two lower floors. A large pointed arch window opens above the stepped pointed arch portal of the original entrance. The bell storey of the tower opens in large, also ogival sound openings. It is set back behind a parapet decorated with glare passes with corner pinnacles. A pointed arch frieze leads to the tower roof, which ends in an octagonal bent helmet. The exterior of the church is sparingly designed with neo-Gothic elements. Only the transept gables are more richly decorated with rising pointed arch friezes and finial finishes.

Interior

The interior of the church is structured by high and wide, pointed arched pillar arcades that open to the narrow aisles. The unadorned pillars have an octagonal design in the shaft and transom zone. The dividing arches are strongly profiled: a central rib is flanked by round bars. The individual yokes have a six-part arch. The diagonals are highlighted by four-part sharp-edged pear - shaped ribs . In the central axis of the vault, the caps meet at the apex like a pointed barrel . Ribs and belt arches have the same cross-section. In the side aisles, slim round services take up the ribs and belt arches. The window walls of the transepts are chamfered.

The choir opens in the width of the central nave and is only slightly narrowed by the triumphal arch. The garments of the triumphal arch are strongly grooved. The concave semicircle is accompanied by pear sticks.

Furnishing

The glass windows were designed in 1954 by the Hungarian-German architect and church window painter György Lehoczky (Saarbrücken). The Saarbrücken sculptor and painter Ernst Alt designed the altar cross . The altar was erected in 1960 and is listed as a historical document.

organ

The organ of the church was built in 1959 by Michael Weise ( Plattling ). The cone shop instrument with free pipe prospect has 34 stops , divided into 3 manuals and pedal, and is set up in the choir behind the altar. The game and stop action is electro-pneumatic. The disposition is as follows:

I positive C-g 3
1. Dumped 8th'
2. Principal 4 ′
3. Quintad 4 ′
4th recorder 2 ′
5. Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Cimbel III
7th musette 8th'
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
8th. Dumped 16 ′
9. Principal 8th'
10. Wooden flute 8th'
11. Reed flute 4 ′
12. Octave 4 ′
13. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
14th Octave 2 ′
15th Mixture V 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Trumpet 8th'
III Swell C – g 3
17th Dumped 8th'
18th Salicional 8th'
19th Prefix 4 ′
20th Flute 4 ′
21st Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
22nd Principal 2 ′
23. Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
24. Scharff V 1'
25th Dulcian 16 ′
26th shawm 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
27. Principal 16 ′
28. Sub bass 16 ′
29 octave 8th'
30th Bass flute 8th'
31. Choral bass 4 ′
32. Field flute 2 ′
33. Back set IV 4 ′
34. trombone 16 ′

Pastor

The following pastors worked in the community:

  • Heinrich Assenmacher: 1884–1909
  • Michael Bengert: 1909–1920
  • Michael Kinzinger: 1920–1922
  • Nikolaus Schellenbach: 1922–1954
  • Heinrich Schmitz: 1954–1981
  • Klaus Konstroffer: 1981–2011
  • Klaus-Peter Kohler

Chaplains

The following chaplains worked in the community:

  • Paul Junker: 1898–1900
  • Theodor Acker: 1899–1902
  • Nikolaus Johannes Christ: 1900–1902
  • Nikolaus Wiltz: 1902–1906
  • Matthias Buchholz: 1902–1903
  • Friedrich Wessel: 1903–1906
  • Karl Peter Patenburg: 1906–1908
  • Lorenz Buhr: 1906-1910
  • Michael Schneider: 1906–1910
  • Heinrich Chardon: 1908–1911
  • Anton Krieger: 1910–1912
  • Nikolaus Thiel: 1910–1911
  • Otto Veith: 1911-1915
  • Peter Schmitt: 1911–1912
  • Philipp Maass: 1912–1920
  • Josef Knichel: 1912–1913
  • Johannes Luxem: 1912–1915
  • Hilarius Wilscheid: 1913-1918
  • Leo Schilken: 1915-1916
  • Jakob Jakoby: 1915–1920
  • Ignaz Fuhrmann: 1916–1921
  • Andreas Schorr: 1920–1924
  • John's Truth: 1920–1922
  • Christoph Schmitz: 1920–1924
  • Jakob Arenz: 1921–1923
  • Josef Stinner: 1922–1922
  • Otto Euskirchen: 1923–1932
  • Clemens Schumann: 1924-1926
  • Friedrich Dethier: 1925–1931
  • Adolf Hoffmann: 1926–1930
  • Nikolaus Schneider: 1930–1936
  • Josef Guldner: 1931-1936
  • Johannes Wagner: 1933–1935
  • Johann Lönard: 1935–1937
  • Josef Mörsdorf: 1936–1939
  • Josef Strassfeld: 1936–1938
  • Josef Weiten: 1937–1937
  • Eduard Arens: 1937-1938
  • Alois Knichel: 1938-1949
  • Karl Stein: 1938–1942
  • Theodor Gräf: 1939–1945
  • Wilhelm Becker: 1947–1949
  • Berthold Hasenfratz: 1949–1955
  • Matthias Prinz: 1951–1954
  • Alfred Kleinermeilert : 1954–1957
  • Heribert Schmitz : 1955–1958
  • Franz Scharmann: 1957–1961
  • Ernst Haag : 1958–1959
  • Christoph Stein: 1959–1961
  • Johannes Flöck: 1961–1965
  • Gerold Rosenthal: 1963–1967
  • Jürgen Middel: 1965–1969
  • Werner Becker: 1966–1971
  • Herbert Lonquich: 1969–1974
  • Alfons Krupp: 1974–1977
  • Heinz Günter Schöttler: 1977–1980
  • Gerd Kiefer: 1980–1982

literature

  • Hans Berthold Busse: Saarbrücken-Burbach, Parish Church St. Eligius , in: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History , vol. 41 (1989), pp. 516f.
  • The Catholic Saarland, Home and Church, ed. by L. Sudbrack, A. Jakob, Volume I, Saarbrücken 1954–1956, p. 22.
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments - Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland , edited by Hans Caspary u. a., 2nd edition, Munich and Berlin 1984, p. 902.
  • 100 years of the Catholic parish of St. Eligius Saarbrücken-Burbach , Saarbrücken 1985.
  • Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland . Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 3-923877-40-4 .
  • György Lehoczky working group (ed.): György Lehoczky, 1901-1979 . St. Johann GmbH, Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken 2010, ISBN 3-938070-49-8 , p. 176 ( galerie-st-johann.de [accessed on September 7, 2012]).
  • Rudolf Saam: Contribution to the building history of neo-Gothic churches on the Saar. On the life and work of the builder Carl Friedrich Müller. In: Saarbrücker Hefte. Issue 48, pp. 17-51, Saarbrücken 1978.
  • Willi Weyres and Albrecht Mann: Handbook on Rhenish Architecture of the 19th Century (1800–1880) , Cologne 1968, p. 75f. and 211.
  • Hilarius Wilscheid: Parish history of the Catholic parish St. Eligius Saarbrücken-Burbach , Saarbrücken 1930.

swell

  • Institute for Contemporary Art in Saarland, archive, holdings Saarbrücken, St. Eligius (Dossier K 46)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of parishes and parish communities in the dean's office in Saarbrücken at: cms.bistum-trier.de, accessed on September 10, 2014
  2. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland, Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, p. 318.
  3. ↑ a b c Information on the parish church of St. Eligius at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on September 5, 2014.
  4. ↑ Hilary Wilscheid: Pfarr history of the Catholic Parish St. Eligius Saarbrücken-Burbach, Saarbrücken 1930, p 13, p. 28
  5. ↑ Rolf Wittenbrock: The three Saar cities (1860-1908): School system, culture and religious life, in: Rolf Wittenbrock: History of the City of Saarbrücken, Vol. 2, From the time of stormy growth to the present, Saarbrücken 1999, p. 98 –113, here p. 111.
  6. ↑ Hilary Wilscheid: Pfarr history of the Catholic Parish St. Eligius Saarbrücken-Burbach, Saarbrücken 1930, p 13, p. 28
  7. ^ Saarbrücker Zeitung of October 31, 1873.
  8. ↑ Rolf Wittenbrock: The three Saar cities (1860-1908): School system, culture and religious life, in: Rolf Wittenbrock: History of the City of Saarbrücken, Vol. 2, From the time of stormy growth to the present, Saarbrücken 1999, p. 98 –113, here p. 112.
  9. ↑ St. Eligius celebrates new unity On: cms.bistum-trier.de, accessed on September 10, 2014
  10. ↑ Martin Rolshausen: Burbach has a new piece of jewelry . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , March 7, 2014. Accessed September 10, 2014.
  11. ↑ Church with “wide windows into the world” - inauguration of the parish hall and district garden in Burbach St. Eligius On: www.bistum-trier.de, accessed on September 10, 2014
  12. ^ Quartiergarten with St. Eligius meeting place in SB-Burbach 2014 ( Memento from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) On: www.aksaarland.de (Chamber of Architects of the Saarland), accessed on September 10, 2014
  13. ↑ Saarbrücken-Burbach district development concept ( Memento from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) On: www.isoplan.de, accessed on September 10, 2014
  14. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland. Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 318–319.
  15. ↑ a b St. Eligius on: orgel-sb.kopp-sb.de (organs in Saarbrücken), accessed on September 10, 2014.
  16. ^ Organ of the parish church St. Eligius Saarbrücken-Burbach On: www.organindex.de, accessed on September 10, 2014
  17. ↑ 100 years of the Catholic Church Community of St. Eligius Saarbrücken-Burbach, Festschrift, ed. from the Catholic parish of St. Eligius Saarbrücken-Burbach, Saarbrücken 1985, pp. 118–119.
  18. ↑ https://www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/saarland/bischof-entlaesst-missrauchs-iester_aid-566881 , accessed on August 29, 2019.
  19. ↑ 100 years of the Catholic Church Community of St. Eligius Saarbrücken-Burbach, Festschrift, ed. from the Catholic parish of St. Eligius Saarbrücken-Burbach, Saarbrücken 1985, pp. 112–118.

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 30 ″  N , 6 ° 56 ′ 31.7 ″  E