St. Corpus Christi (Homburg)

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The Catholic parish church of St. Corpus Christi in Homburg
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Church window
Organ prospectus

The Church of St. Corpus Christi is a Catholic parish church in Homburg , the district town of the Saarpfalz district in Saarland . It is dedicated to the festive mystery of Corpus Christi , the bodily presence of Christ in the form of the Eucharistic bread. In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed. The sacred building is assigned to the diocese of Speyer and thus to the church province of Bamberg .

history

On June 20, 1961, the Speyer bishop Isidor Markus Emanuel officially established the St. Corpus Christi Curate in Homburg, which was subordinate to the parish of St. Michael . On November 12th of the same year the parish of St. Michael decided to establish an independent parish of St. Corpus Christi . The Bishop of Speyer implemented this resolution in a document dated November 17th.

Construction work to build a church for the newly founded parish began on May 13, 1962, after the foundation stone had been laid on May 1 by Domkapitular Schwartz from Speyer just two weeks earlier . The church was built according to plans by the architect Herbert Lück (Homburg-Beeden). The construction work was the responsibility of Dyckerhoff & Widmann. On the 1st Sunday of Advent , November 29, 1964, the church was inaugurated by Bishop Emanuel. The parsonage was built in 1963, the parish center with attached kindergarten and youth rooms in 1972 and 1973.

In an arson attack on February 23, 1974, the church was so badly damaged that a demolition of the church could not be ruled out. But the church building could be saved and after a successful restoration the church was put back into service on the 1st Sunday in Advent 1974.

Another restoration took place in 1999. In 2008 and 2009 the church was expanded with the addition of a parish hall, a sacristy and a youth room.

Building description

The church building is a modern round church with a separate tower . The dome of the building rests on 12 pillars. The 12 semicircular concrete glass windows were designed by the artist August Deppe from Homburg. The mosaic floor was laid in 1964 by the company Villeroy & Boch ( Mettlach ).

The memorial cross, hanging in the center of the church above the altar, is the work of the artist Gernot Waldner .

organ

The organ of the church was built in 1984 by the organ building company Hugo Mayer Orgelbau ( Heusweiler ). The instrument has 20 stops on two manual works and a pedal . The built-in play cupboard is designed with three manuals. The 1st manual is a coupling manual. During the construction, the pipe work of the former organ in the auditorium of the Homburger Johanneum was reused. The instrument is set up on a gallery behind the altar. The wind chests are slide chests with mechanical play and electrical stop action.

II Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Tube bare 8th'
3. Principal 4 ′
4th Flutdacked 4 ′
5. Field flute 2 ′
6th Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Trumpet 8th'
III Swell C – g 3
8th. Lead-covered 8th'
9. Willow pipe 8th'
10. Venetian flute 4 ′
11. Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
12. Principal 2 ′
13. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
14th Sharp 1'
15th Rohrschalmey 8th'
16. Clairon 4 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
17th Sub-bass 16 ′
18th Octave bass 8th'
19th Octave 4 ′
20th bassoon 16 ′

Bells

A four-part bell from 1988 hangs in the free-standing bell tower. The casting was carried out by the Karlsruhe bell and art foundry. The chime is structured in such a way that the ringing for mass or high mass begins with the two small bells. Afterwards the full bell can be heard on almost every Sunday. During Advent and Lent there is no big Corpus Christi bell on this occasion. The Elisabeth bell rings as a soloist for the angelus.

No. Surname volume Casting year foundry Weight
(kg)
1 St. Corpus Christi cis 1 1988 Karlsruhe bell and art foundry 1600
2 Heart of jesus dis 1 1130
3 Edith Stein f sharp 1 740
4th St. Elisabeth as 1 425

literature

  • Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: The churches in the Saar-Palatinate district . Saarbrücken 1987.

Web links

Commons : St. Corpus Christi (Homburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sub-monument list Saarpfalz-Kreis. (PDF; 1.11 MB) List of monuments of the Saarland; Retrieved July 11, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c St. Corpus Christi - Homburg / Saar. pg-fronleichnam.de; Retrieved July 12, 2012
  3. ↑ a b Information on the parish church of St. Corpus Christi. kunstlexikonsaar.de; Retrieved July 12, 2012
  4. ↑ St. Fronleichnam, Homburg ( Memento from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) cms.bistum-speyer.de; Retrieved July 12, 2012
  5. ^ Gernot Waldner: Memorial cross, Church of St. Corpus Christi, Homburg. Online in a catalog raisonné at www.gernot-waldner.de, pp. 130–133 (accessed April 11, 2017)
  6. ^ Organ of the Church of St. Corpus Christi (Catholic) ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Information page of the website Orgeln im Saarland ; Retrieved July 12, 2012

Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 42.3 "  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 29.4"  E