St. Hildegard (St. Ingbert)
The Church of St. Hildegard in St. Ingbert is the Catholic parish church of the same parish .
history
After the St. Engelbert Church had become too small due to the strong population growth and the associated increase in the number of Catholics in St. Ingbert, the St. Joseph Church was built at the beginning of the 1890s . The St. Ingbert parish now had two church buildings at its disposal, but soon this was no longer enough.
Therefore, as early as 1915, Prelate Josef Goebel (pastor of St. Josef) was considering the establishment of a subsidiary parish. In January 1917, the parish council of St. Josef decided to set up an independent foundation , which was named "Roman Catholic Church Foundation St. Hildegard" , named after the popular saint and mystic Hildegard von Bingen . St. Ingbert was then in the Bavarian Palatinate and so it was necessary according to the provisions of the Concordat , the consent of the ruling monarch of Bavaria , King Ludwig III. to catch up. However, due to the First World War , the establishment of the new parish of St. Hildegard had to be postponed.
It was not until 1927 that the establishment could be realized. The parish of St. Hildegard was by then on May 28, 1927 Speyer Bishop , Ludwig Sebastian , canonically erected. The next step was to implement the plan to build a parish church for the new parish. There were three designs, of which the one by the architect Albert Boßlet was chosen. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on September 28, 1928 and two months later, on November 28 of the same year, the foundation stone was laid . The construction time was only 12 months, and so the church was inaugurated on September 22, 1929.
The church is listed as an individual monument in the Saarland's list of monuments and is considered by experts to be the most successful church building in Boßlet.
description
The church is built in a modern , simple, expressionistic design language. The building has three naves : a broad central nave under a hipped roof and two low aisles under pent roofs . The north aisle is shorter than the south and merges into the church's bell tower , which is attached to the central nave. The exposed brickwork is particularly striking .
Part of the church is a Lady Chapel, which is located on the ground floor of the bell tower.
Furnishing
In the choir there is a high altar , which was designed by Albert Boßlet, the architect of the church, and executed by the silversmith Franz Mayrhofer ( Munich ). The artist duo Goosens - Biehler (Munich) created the bronze relief on the front of the altar, as did the two figures Herz Jesu and Immaculata on the choir arch. The figures of Saint Joseph , Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus , Saint Wendelinus , Saint Anthony and those of the Apostle Princes Peter and Paul in the pulpit are also by Goosens and Biehler. The pulpit cross is also a work by Goosens and Biehler.
The figure of Holy Brother Konrad comes from the sculptor Vogel ( Bergzabern ), that of Saint Barbara from the sculptor Dell ( Boßweiler ).
The Way of the Cross was created in 1929 by August Weckbecker (Munich) from terracotta .
Franz Mayrhofer (Munich) made the lid of the baptismal font .
The stained glass windows are the work of Felix Baumhauer (Munich), who designed them in the years 1927–29. Particularly noteworthy is the large pointed arch window in the choir behind the high altar. The Bockhorni company (Munich) was responsible for the execution of the windows. Baumhauer also made the large picture of the Virgin Mary above the altar in the Lady Chapel.
The stone altar and ambo are made by the sculptor Willi Hahn ( Trier ) and were made in 1984.
The figure of Saint Hildegard from 1929 above the main portal , made of sheet copper , was made by the sculptor Josef Henselmann (Munich).
Bells
Three of the four bells in the church were confiscated and melted down in February 1942 as war material. The church was only allowed to keep its smallest bell. On January 4, 1953, the city council under Mayor Georg Bleif passed a resolution , according to which the bells confiscated during the war were replaced in the St. Ingbert parishes. In addition, St. Hildegard's ringing has been extended from four to five bells. The bells for the St. Ingbert churches were cast by the Saarlouiser bell foundry , which was founded in early 1953 by Karl (III) Otto from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and Aloys Riewer from Saarland. On October 3, 1953, the bells, which were cast by the Otto foundry from Saarlouis, were ceremoniously handed over to the parishes. All 5 bells ring on Saturdays at 6:00 p.m., together with the other city-center bells, to ring in Sunday and on very special occasions such as solemn celebrations on major religious holidays.
| No. | Surname | volume |
diameter
(in mm) |
Weight (kg) |
| 1 | Christ the King | g sharp 0 | 1976 | 4870 |
| 2 | St. George | h 0 | 1640 | 2780 |
| 3 | St. Mary | dis 1 | 1310 | 1391 |
| 4th | St. Hildegard | f sharp 1 | 1092 | 830 |
| 5 | St. Barbara | g sharp 1 | 1016 | 595 |
organ
The Church of St. Hildegard has two organs , a main organ and another, which is located in the Marienkapelle.
Main organ
The organ on the large gallery was built in 1933 by the organ builders Gebrüder Späth ( Mengen ) with 41 registers . In the course of time the instrument has been worked on several times by the organ building company Hugo Mayer Orgelbau ( Heusweiler ). 1978 Mayer rebuilt the organ; individual registers were replaced and shut down; the instrument was brightened in line with the neo-baroque sound ideals. In 1995 Mayer restored the instrument and equipped it with an electric setting system in 2000 . In 2004 the changes made in the meantime were largely reversed and the disposition was reduced to the original state. In the course of this, the organ was extended by a horizontal trumpet and received a four-manual console . The cone shop instrument today has 42 stops. The game and stop action is electro-pneumatic. The disposition is as follows:
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, IV / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Sub-octave coupling: II / I, III / I
- Super octave coupling: II / I, III / I
- Playing aids : electronic typesetter with 3072 combinations, sequencer, crescendo
- Remarks
- (R) = reconstructed register (1995)
- (N) = 1995 addition
- (E) = 2004 addition
Organ of the Lady Chapel
The instrument was built in 1949 by the organ builder Paul Ott ( Göttingen ) as a house organ for the hymn poet and composer Erhard Quack , who worked in Speyer . In the 2000s the organ was installed in the Marienkapelle of St. Ingbert's Hildegardskirche. The instrument has 9 registers, divided into 2 manuals and pedal. The wind chests are mechanical slide chests . It is possibly the oldest mechanical slide chest organ in Saarland since the cone chest was introduced.
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P
literature
- Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: The churches in the Saar-Palatinate district . SDV Saarländische Druckerei und Verlag, Saarbrücken 1987, ISBN 978-3-925036-15-6 , p. 164 .
- Groh, Marianne: The St. Hildegard Church in St. Ingbert: the time it was built and its patron saint . Ed .: Catholic Parish Office St. Hildegard, St. Ingbert. St. Ingbert 1998, p. 145 .
- Catholic Parish of St. Hildegard (Ed.): 75 years of the parish of St. Hildegard: 1927–2002 . St. Ingbert 2002, p. 63 .
- Literature on St. Hildegard (St. Ingbert) in the Saarland Bibliography
Web links
- Parish of St. Hildegard
- Church choir St. Hildegard
- Tower recordings of the bell ringing of the Catholic parish church of St. Hildegard in St. Ingbert from May 2015 and August 2018 , as well as for the bell concert on September 22, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d History of the parish of St. Hildegard ( Memento of the original from April 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. Information on the website of the parish of St. Hildegard, accessed on June 7, 2012
- ↑ List of monuments and database of the Saarland PDF file, accessed on April 28, 2012
- ↑ a b c d e f g Information on the St. Hildegard Church at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on July 30, 2012
- ^ 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 87 to 95, 368, 369, 566 .
- ↑ 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 105 to 112, 328, 329, 381, 517 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud University Nijmegen).
- ↑ a b http://organindex.de/index.php?title=St._Ingbert,_St._Hildegard , accessed on January 2, 2020
- ↑ Organ of the Marienkapelle of the Church of St. Hildegard (Catholic) ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2013 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. Info page of the Orgeln im Saarland website , accessed on June 7, 2012.
Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 58 ″ N , 7 ° 6 ′ 41 ″ E