St. Jakobus (Keßlingen)
St. Jakobus is a Roman Catholic church in the Keßlingen district of the Saarland community of Perl .
history
The small church is mentioned for the first time in an episcopal visitation report from 1569. However, late Gothic frescoes in the choir show that the church is much older and probably dates from the 14th or 15th century. In 1796 a master builder Ternes extended the small chapel. A sacristy was added behind the choir, the nave and a tower with a slate spire on the west side were also rebuilt. In the 19th century the church received a neo-Gothic portal.
St. James was destroyed in World War II. The reconstruction took place in the 1950s. From 1977 to 1980 a restoration was carried out by the architect A. Löwenberg under the technical direction of the diocese conservator. The last renovation work was carried out between 2005 and 2008 under the direction of the Losheim architect Siegbert Barth.
architecture
St. Jakobus is a simple, flat-roofed rectangular hall with two window axes on the long sides. In front of the nave was a square tower with a baroque dome, in which a round arched portal with a wooden door sits.
Furnishing
High altar
The baroque columned altar dates from 1724. In the richly carved high altar made of wood, a Roman tombstone found in the area with the inscription P. SINCOR DUBITATO ET MEMORIALIAE SACRILLAE PARENTIB DEFUNCT DUBITATI MENSOR ET MORATUS ET SIBI VIVI ( the Publitius Sincorius and the Memorialia Sacrilla, the deceased parents, (sons) Dubitatus' Mensor and Moratus (set) (set this tombstone, also for themselves during their lifetime ).
Figure decorations
In the main niche of the high altar there is a figure of St. James as a pilgrim with a pilgrim's staff in his right hand and a book in his left hand. In the niche above is St. Gangolf holding a sword in his left hand. In the left side altar stands a Madonna and Child, on the right side altar St. Anna with her daughter, the Mother of God Maria.
The group of figures of the Seven Sleepers from Ephesus made of oak is a sculptural work from the 17th century. It is located in the central nave in a wall niche. On the opposite side, another niche houses a recent Pieta.
Frescoes
During repairs between 1977 and 1979, a tetramorph from the 14th or 15th century was discovered. It shows the symbols of the four evangelists in the vault of the choir. The bull (Lukas) is missing in the north field because the plaster was renewed here over the centuries. Jesus is depicted on the medallion at the intersection of the cross ribs.
literature
- Hans Caspary, Wolfgang Götz, Ekkart Klinge (arrangement): Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland . (= Georg Dehio (†): Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ), Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984, p. 445
- Festschrift 700 years of Kesslingen . Perl-Kesslingen, 2009
- Josef Ollinger: A little church with four treasures In: Saarbrücker Zeitung, No. 50, February 28, 2009, p. E1
Web links
- Ferdinand Luxenburger: Chapel St. Jakobus Keßlingen , saarland-lese.de, Bertuch Verlag Weimar
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Catholic churches in the Merzig district , Saar Art Lexicon, accessed on September 8, 2016
Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 48.1 ″ N , 6 ° 29 ′ 1.5 ″ E