St. Hildegard (Neuweiler)
St. Hildegard is a Catholic church in Neuweiler , a district of Sulzbach , Saarbrücken Regional Association , Saarland . It bears the patronage of Saint Hildegard von Bingen . In the list of monuments of the Saarland is as since 2010 single monument listed.
history
The church was built between 1954 and 1957 according to plans by the architect and sculptor Gottfried Böhm ( Cologne ). In the 1970s there was a renovation in the area of the chancel .
In 2005 the bell tower was demolished because of its dilapidation. As early as 1999, the bells in the tower were stopped. In collaboration with the architecture firm Krüger & Krüger ( Saarbrücken ), Gottfried Böhm, who was already responsible for the design of the church building in the 1950s, designed a new tower that was built in 2009.
The church building
Exterior construction
The elongated structure of the church is located on a sloping slope between two streets in the middle of the built-up area. In the entrance area, the church has been withdrawn from the front of the street at this point, so that a forecourt could be created and it looks rather flat and small here. In contrast, the church building appears almost monumental in size and height when viewed from the lower street, from which the curved choir wall can be seen.
The external shape of the church results from the construction of the ceiling, for which the architect Böhm designed an innovative solution using a wide reinforced concrete frame . V-shaped supports that widen upwards and taper downwards, which are connected with beams to form rigid frame corners and are articulated on an immovable foundation , form the framework on which the ceiling rests. The 30 meter high bell tower, which was demolished in 2005 for structural reasons, was originally attached to the sacristy attached to the side . As a replacement, Böhm designed a new free-standing tower. The campanile , designed as an open steel construction , stands on the forecourt in front of the entrance to the church. The basement is designed as a portal , above which there are four stepped bell rooms.
The inner
The interior of the church forms a trapezoidal hall, the side walls of which narrow from a distance of 18 meters at the entrance to 14 meters at the choir, thus creating a targeted perspective towards the altar . This is traced by the slightly curved ceiling supported by arched supports that swings high above the altar . The room height rises continuously and strongly from the very low entrance area to the concave curved end wall of the chancel made of red natural stone , which emphasizes the importance of the chancel accordingly. In the chancel there are room-high glass surfaces to the left and right and a ribbon of windows directly under the ceiling, which let light flow into the room. The altar was originally located further back in the choir, but was replaced by a new, smaller one as part of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council and placed further forward in the church. Two flights of stairs lead down to the left and right of the altar into a room that was previously used as a baptistery , but was originally planned as a crypt .
Furnishing
The equipment of the church, the altar is one from the 1970s, consisting of 12 marble stones of the former communion rail is that the 12 tribes of Israel and the apostles symbolize a crossroad with glass mosaic, and the large cross without body, with instruments of torture and golden crown of thorns made made of former timber, which is attached to the rear wall of the choir room. Further items of equipment are the tabernacle from 1957 in the form of a bread basket with a spike-shaped lid as a top and a grape pieta from 1980 made of bronze , both created by painter and sculptor Ernst Alt (Saarbrücken). Furthermore, a relic of St. Hildegard, which is designed as a tree of life and 7 candlesticks in the chancel as a symbol of the " Secret Revelation ".
The glass window above the entrance, installed in 1964, was designed by architect and glass artist Rolf Link (Cologne). The bronze doors of the main portal, which replaced the original church doors in 1966, were made by the sculptor Georg Probst ( Munich ). In 2010, Böhm's son Markus was responsible for painting the side walls of the new bell tower, which are clad in wood for noise protection reasons.
The clay figures of the Christmas crib , which an unknown Tuscan artist created, date from 1902.
Part of the church is also a burial chapel with the grave of Vicar Friedrich Klein, which was originally planned as a baptistery by the architect Böhm . Klein had made a decisive contribution to the building of the church and suddenly died in the middle of the construction phase in 1956.
literature
- Müller, Bastian: Architecture of the post-war period in Saarland . Saarbrücken 2011 (Preservation of monuments in Saarland 4), p. 158
- Parish Sankt Hildegard <Sulzbach, Saar>: 50 years of St. Hildegard Neuweiler . Neuweiler 2007
- Quack, Brigitte: The Neuweiler parish church of Sankt Hildegard . Sulzbach [approx. 2002]
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bell bearer of the Church of St. Hildegard 2010 ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. From: www.aksaarland.de, accessed on January 7, 2014
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments Regional Association Saarbrücken ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), accessed on January 7, 2014
- ↑ a b c d e f Information on the St. Hildegard Church at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on January 7, 2014
- ↑ a b c d e Böhm, Gottfried On: www.kuenstlerlexikonsaar.de, accessed on January 7, 2014
Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 7 ″ N , 7 ° 4 ′ 19.6 ″ E