St. Eligius (Völklingen)

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Parish Church of St. Eligius, street front
Parish Church of St. Eligius, back side
Völklingen, Old Eligius Church, exterior, around 1900
Völklingen, Old Eligius Church, Inneres, around 1900
Inside, look at the altar

The Church of St. Eligius is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Saarland city ​​of Völklingen , Saarbrücken regional association . The patron saint of the church is St. Eligius , the patron saint of metal workers. The patronage is related to the Völklinger Hütte , which shaped the history of the city in the phase of industrialization and beyond. Church patronage day is December 1st. The church, built in the style of neo-baroque or neoclassicism with Art Nouveau elements , is listed as an individual monument in the Saarland's list of monuments . The church is assigned to the diocese of Trier .

history

The predecessor of today's church was built between 1845 and 1848 according to plans by the Trier government building council, Hoff, who was also involved in railway construction in Saarland. The on-site construction supervision was the responsibility of the Saarbrücken municipal master builder Carl Benzel. The design of the late classical sacred building showed architectural parallels to the arched style of the recently built parish church of St. Johann in Dillingen .

The inauguration of the Catholic Völklingen Church took place on July 29th, 1848, the consecration took place on October 9th, 1853. The classicistic hall church was presented with a west tower and two small vestibules with gables. The longitudinal walls of the ship were constructed symmetrically. Four large arched windows, connected by sills and cornices, formed the middle section, which was flanked by two arched windows that opened on top of each other and provided light for the space in the area of ​​the organ loft and the fore choir. The choir was drawn in strongly. The interior was simply designed and laid flat. Two secondary choirs opened for the ship and the choir. The pillars were adorned with leaf- adorned fighters in romanized forms. In the central axis of the apse, the wall opened into a round window that was flanked by two round arched windows. Cornices cranked around the three-story tower. The slated church tower roof was designed as an octagonal bent helmet.

After the church had become too small due to the strong population growth in Völklingen, a limited architectural competition for a new building was announced in 1908 . In 1912 the late Classicist building was demolished and from 1912 to 1913 a new building was built on the same site. The plans for the new church building came from the Mainz architects Ludwig Becker and Anton Falkowski. The consecration of the new building took place on July 6, 1913. The construction costs amounted to 307,000 marks and thus greatly exceeded the original cost estimate. The church was not painted until 1925.

From 1972 to 1974 the interior of the church was restored by the Trier architect Heinrich Otto Vogel . The windows were restored between 1987 and 1989 . In 2005, outdoor lighting was installed as part of the “Light Master Plan”, which Andreas Thiel and Peter Schütz from the Office for Light Design (Saarbrücken) were responsible for.

Further restoration measures took place in 2010/2011.

architecture

The current church from 1912/1913 is a three-aisled stepped hall in neo-baroque - neoclassical style with Art Nouveau elements . The two-bay transept adjoins the three-bay nave with square pillars with pilaster strips in front. The wide central nave, vaulted with a barrel barrel, is not interrupted, but is continued in its dimensions from the fore choir yoke to the choir wall. The central nave is the main room, to which the low and narrow aisle bays are subordinate as side rooms. The transverse barrel vaulted transept yokes, on the other hand, open almost at the same height to the main nave. This results in a space expansion that supports the Latin cross shape. The windowless choir, with a pressed triumphal arch, closes in plan in an arched arch inwards and outwards on three sides. In terms of height and width, it is set off and retracted opposite the ship.

The interior has a decoration close to classicism. The capital zones of the pillars and pilasters show imaginative combinations of small cartouches , volutes and Ionic kymatias . The fighters are profiled several times and load out wide. The belt and scabbard arches as well as the choir arch are coffered , whereby the coffered fields are filled with four-petalled flowers. The female head reliefs on the parapet of the organ gallery are reminiscent of Art Nouveau.

The main view of the white plastered church is the very representative and monumentally designed tower facade. The three-part by wide pilasters westwerk like Tower opens on the ground floor with two double of pillars, each flanked by a pillar, to the open porch with a balcony. The middle of the three portals was walled up with modern glass stones. The pillars, the balcony beams and the parapet are decorated in an Art Nouveau style with fluted cuffs, leaf capitals, block friezes, coffering and flowers. Low sculptures of the symbols of the evangelists rest on balustrade plinths above the pillar position. Highly oval windows with adjoining roofing ensure that the organ loft is illuminated. The tower floor above is block-like and is poorly structured by pilaster strips: A wider, rectangular central area with a clock tower is surrounded by two narrower, rectangular areas with angel reliefs. The sound openings positioned above are divided into two lanes on the outside and three on the inside by a rectangular pilaster-frieze frame.

The tower roof takes up the three-part division of the substructure. In the central axis, a figural niche in the form of a Palladian motif hides the statue of St. Eligius in episcopal robes, miter and crook. Curved side roofs lead over to the octagonal central helmet, which ends in an elaborate lantern construction with a bell roof.

Furnishing

The sculptor Inge EOQ Laurenz (Völklingen) created in 1979 from gray cast iron than-life fountain sculpture "Mother and Child", which is located in the parish garden of the Church of St. Eligius. The mural St. Francis, which was made in 1999, was made by the sculptor Nikoloz Bakhia . The painting of the church from 1925 was exposed and restored in small parts in the early 1970s after being whitewashed in the meantime. In addition, there are five magnificent altars from the period of construction in the church , a St. Eligius figure made in France around 1750 in the foyer , as well as figures of St. Barbara and St. Wendalinus .

The altar leaves of three altars and the stations of the cross were made by the Munich painter Franz Michael Ronge (1853–1925). The "Immaculata Conceptio" after Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was painted in 1920 by Ronge. In the same year Ronge created the Sacred Heart painting based on a model by Ludwig Glötzle and thirteen Stations of the Cross based on the model of Italian copper engravings from the 18th century from the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. The 14th station of the cross, Entombment, is designed as a holy grave in the high altar . Ronge created the large high altar painting of the crucifixion of Jesus in 1922.

On the balustrade of the gallery there are reliefs of King David with the harp as a psalmist (left) and Saint Cecilia with a portative (right) in canopy niches .

organ

Inside, view of the organ gallery

The organ of the church is one of the few surviving German-Romantic organs in the Saarland. The instrument was built in 1925 by the Stahlhut company ( Aachen ). In 1982 the organ was subjected to a comprehensive renovation by the company Klais Orgelbau ( Bonn ), during which the pneumatic cone chests were replaced by mechanical sliding chests. The disposition from 1925 was taken over and expanded by eight registers . A new gaming table was also built. The old pneumatic console with register keys is now in the Borgentreich Organ Museum ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

The instrument has 53 registers, divided into three manuals and a pedal . The three manuals have a dynamic gradation: forte, mezzo forte, piano. At the same time, the manuals are also different in terms of their characteristics: Hauptwerk (principal choir from 16 ′ to Mixtur); 1. Swell (flute choir from 16 'to cornett); 2. Swell: (string choir from 16 ′ to Harmonia aetheria).

From August to October 2012 the organ underwent a general overhaul and a pedestal 32 'was added. .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
01. Praestant 16 ′
02. Drone 16 ′
03. Principal 08th'
04th Fugara 08th'
05. Dolce 08th'
06th Lull major 08th'
07th Dumped 08th'
08th. Octave 04 ′
09. Octave flute 04 ′
10. Super octave 02 ′
11. Fifth 02 2 ⁄ 3  ′
12. third 01 3 ⁄ 5  ′
13. Mixture V-VI
14th Trumpet 08th'
II Swell 1 C – g 3
15th Lovely Gedackt 0 16 ′
16. Violin principal 08th'
17th Gamba 08th'
18th Salicional 08th'
19th Vox coelestis 08th'
20th Concert flute 08th'
21st Fugara 04 ′
22nd Transverse flute 04 ′
23. Piccolo 02 ′
24. Cornett III-IV
25th Scharff V
26th Tuba mirabilis 08th'
27. oboe 08th'
28. Clairon 04 ′
Tremulant
III Swell 2 C – g 3
29 Salicional 16 ′
30th violin 08th'
31. Aeoline 08th'
32. Unda maris 08th'
33. Very thick 08th'
34. Quintatön 08th'
35. Gemshorn 04 ′
36. Reed flute 04 ′
37. Flageolet 02 ′
38. Larigot 01 1 ⁄ 3  ′
39. Harmonia aetheria III
40. Cymbel IV
41. Clarinet 08th'
42. Vox humana 08th'
Tremulant
Celesta
Celesta (muted)
Pedal C – f 1
43. Pedestal 32 ′
44. Principal 16 ′
45. Sub bass 16 ′
46. Salicet 16 ′
47. Octave 08th'
48. cello 08th'
49. Super octave 04 ′
50. Hollow flute 04 ′
51. Back set IV 0
52. trombone 16 ′
53. Trumpet 08th'
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II
    • Super octave coupling: II / I III / I, III / II, III / III, I / P

Bells

In 1954, the Saarlouis bell foundry in Saarlouis-Fraulautern, which was founded by Karl (III) Otto from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and Alois Riewer from Saarland in 1953, cast six bronze bells for St. Eligius. The bell is considered to be the most beautiful ensemble of bells in Völklingen. The large belfry and yokes have been made of steel since they were first assembled. The full bells ring on high church holidays and on very special occasions. The big bell is generally used for the solo ringing of the ceremonial high mass or as a bell for funerals or similar events.

No. Surname Casting year Foundry, casting location Weight
(kg) 		Diameter
(mm) 		Chime
1 St. John 1954 Otto, Saarlouis 3849 1825 a 0
2 St. Eligius 2290 1534 c 1
3 St. Mary 1595 1366 d 1
4th St. Joseph 961 1149 f 1
5 St. Michael 680 1023 g 1
6th Guardian Angel 468 913 a 1

literature

  • Ruth Bauer: Studies on neo-baroque architecture in Saarland. unpublished master's thesis, Saarbrücken University, 1989, pp. 148–150.
  • Hans Caspary et al. a. (Ed.): Dehio Handbook of German Art Monuments, Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland. 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1984, p. 1098.
  • Gertrud P. Fels and Wolfgang Fels: Franz Michael Ronge (1853–1925), a rediscovered painter of late ecclesiastical history, in: Das Münster, magazine for Christian art and art history, 1, 2019, 72nd year, Regensburg 2019, p. 3 –24, here p. 18.
  • Festschrift and Chronik St. Eligius Völklingen, 100 Years, 1913–2013, Völklingen 2013.
  • Sigrid Howest-Uthemann (Ed.): Völklingen and its districts. Völklingen 1992, p. 49 ff.
  • Philipp de Lorenzi: Contributions to the history of all parishes in the Diocese of Trier. Trier 1887, p. 525 f.
  • Heinrich Kuhn: St. Eligius. History of the parish. Festschrift on the occasion of the restoration of the St. Eligius Church in Völklingen. ed. from the Catholic parish of St. Eligius, Völklingen 1973, pp. 89–113.
  • Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland. (= Publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland , Volume 40.) Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 3-923877-40-4 , pp. 355–356, pp. 594–596.
  • Franz Ronig: The 19th century church building in the Diocese of Trier. In: Art of the 19th Century in the Rhineland , Volume I. Düsseldorf 1980, p. 258, p. 266.
  • L. Sudbrack, A. Jakob (Ed.): The Catholic Saarland. Home and church. Volume II / III, Saarbrücken 1954, p. 66 f.
  • Willy Weyres , Albrecht Mann : Handbook on Rhenish architecture of the 19th century (1800-1880). Cologne 1968, p. 222.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list Mittelstadt Völklingen (PDF; 419 kB), accessed on September 6, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c Information on the parish church of St. Eligius at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on September 6, 2012
  3. ↑ St. Eligius Church Völklingen on: www.voelklingen-im-wandel.de, accessed on September 6, 2012
  4. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacral Buildings of Classicism and Historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 355–356 and pp. 594–596.
  5. ↑ Gertrud P. Fels and Wolfgang Fels: Franz Michael Ronge (1853-1925), A rediscovered painter of late ecclesiastical history, in: Das Münster, Zeitschrift für Christian Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, 1, 2019, 72nd year, Regensburg 2019, p. 3–24, here p. 18.
  6. ↑ Festschrift and Chronicle of St. Eligius Völklingen, 100 Years, 1913–2013, Völklingen 2013, pp. 41–45.
  7. ↑ a b c Organ of the St. Eligius Church in Völklingen On: www.festivaldorgues.org, accessed on September 6, 2012
  8. ↑ 15th Organ Festival d'orgues Forbach-Völklingen - Catholic Parish Church of St. Eligius Völklingen (page 46)
  9. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588 (especially pages 85 to 97, 306, 307, 409, 567).
  10. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, in particular pp. 105 to 112, 274, 275, 517).

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Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '59.1 "  N , 6 ° 51' 13.8"  E