St. Helena (elections)

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The parish church of St. Helena in Wahlen
View from the gallery
High altar from the 18th century

St. Helena is the Catholic parish church consecrated to St. Helena in Wahlen in Saarland , a district of the municipality of Losheim am See in the Merzig-Wadern district . In the list of monuments of the Saarland the church building is a single monument listed.

history

The original church building was erected in two stages. The nave was built in 1747 and the tower in 1750 . In the middle of the 19th century there was an expansion by enlarging the nave by half. In 1887 the church underwent an interior restoration .

According to plans by the architect Moritz Gombert ( Saarbrücken ), the church was expanded or rebuilt again between 1927 and 1928. The transepts , the choir , the sacristy , the parish hall and additions to the baroque tower were built. Another expansion measure in 1932 led to the tower being increased by one storey. In addition, the tower received an onion roof .

From 1956 to 1957 a restoration took place under the direction of the restorer Voitié ( Trier ). In the mid-1960s, the interior of the church was renovated. An altar island and a new floor were created. In 1979 the church was restored by the restorers Günter and Arnold Mrziglod ( Tholey ).

Furnishing

The church's furnishings include the pulpit from 1630 with a figure of St. Michael and the four evangelists sitting on the sound cover , the high altar with rotating tabernacle from the 18th century and the altarpiece from 1920. These were made in 1956/57 by the restorer Voitié (Trier) restored.

Further items of equipment are a picture panel made in 1972 by the painter Walter Persy (Trier), which adapts itself to the color of the high altar and pulpit thanks to the predominantly blue coloring and shows an illustration of the prayer for the consecration of baptismal water, also by Persy and as a hanging cross executed altar cross and the radiation Madonna and St. Joseph -Figur the far side altars on two Baroque - pillars just this side altars, which were in 1979 reorganized by Günter and Arnold Mrziglod (Tholey).

organ

Prospectus of the Hock organ

The organ of the church was built in 1908 by the organ building company Mamert Hock ( Saarlouis ). In 1996 the Trompete 8 ′ register was supplemented by Hugo Mayer ( Heusweiler ). The pocket shop instrument set up on a gallery has twelve registers, distributed over two manuals and pedal . The playing and stop action is pneumatic. The disposition is as follows:

I main work C – f 3
1. Drone (from c) 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Gamba
(CH from violoncello) 		8th'
4th Octave 4 ′
5. Octave 2 ′
6th Cornett III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Trumpet 8th'
II Manual C – f 3
8th. Lovely Gedackt 8th'
9. Salicional 8th'
10. Transverse flute 4 ′
Pedal C – d 1
11. Sub bass 16 ′
12. violoncello 8th'
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
    • Sub- octave coupling: II / I (Sub)
    • Super octave coupling: II / I (Super)
  • Playing aids : Piano, Forte, Tutti, Alles Ab, automatic piano pedal for II

Bells

In 1957, the Saarlouiser 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 two bronze bells for the St. Helena Church in elections the beat notes: d ′ - a ′. The bells have the following diameters: 1412 mm, 942 mm and weigh: 1717 kg, 593 kg.

literature

  • Marschall, Kristine: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland . Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 978-3-923877-40-9 , p. 666 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments in the district of Merzig-Wadern ( Memento of the original dated May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), accessed on March 18, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarland.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e Information on the parish church of St. Helena at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on March 18, 2014
  3. ^ Organ of the parish church of St. Helena Wahlen on: www.organindex.de, accessed on March 18, 2014.
  4. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 87 to 95, 568 .
  5. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 105 to 112, 518 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 13.5 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 56.2"  E