St. Johann (Dillingen)

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The listed church of St. Johann in Dillingen , built between 1844 and 1845 in the style of late classicism , is a Catholic church and belongs to the parish community of Dillingen , which is divided into the five parishes of the Holy Sacrament , St. Josef , Maria Trost and St. Maximin and St. Johann subdivided. It is the mother church of the Dillingen inner city parishes and is popularly called Alt Kirch . The church is assigned to the diocese of Trier . Patron's Day is the solemn feast of the birth of St. John the Baptist ( June 24th ).

History and architecture

One can probably speak of a functioning parish system in Dillingen only since the early Middle Ages . As the first pastor known in writing in Dillingen, Philipp Schmitt mentions a clergyman named Gerardus who died in 1317. Among the patrons and tithe lords in Dillingen, the gentlemen von Siersberg appear first. Knight Arnold von Siersberg donated his rights to the Mettlach Abbey on July 21, 1262 , which still presented a pastor for Dillingen in 1389. In 1427 the abbot of Wadgassen Abbey in Dillingen was Kollator and presumably occupied the parish of Dillingen with Wadgasser monks as pastors. But when, after 1554, the Barons von Braubach followed the Lords of Siersberg in the rule of Dillingen, they acquired the right of collation of the Wadgassen Abbey in 1595. From this point on it was the respective Lords of Dillingen who appointed the pastors.

A previous building for today's parish church of St. John the Baptist , mentioned for the first time in 1150 , was built in 1450 by Seigneur Johann von Dillingen. The church, built in the late Gothic style, had a cross vault , a double window in the choir and only four windows in the nave . In the visitation record of 1618 three altars are mentioned.

When the church was demolished in 1729, a coat of arms stone of the von Hagen family and fragments of the coat of arms of those of Siersberg-Dillingen were found, which indicate burials of members of the families. The damage caused in the war times of the 17th century, especially the Thirty Years' War , was repaired in 1676. The sacrament house was integrated into the successor building built in 1728. Parts of the old tower were also used for a new Greek portal .

Franz Xaver Leidinger: Pastor and local researcher Philipp Schmitt (3rd from left), the initiator of the new church building in Dillingen during a conference with his colleagues in the neighboring parishes (1843, 84 cm × 63 cm, Beckingen rectory)

The consecration by the Trier auxiliary bishop Lothar Friedrich von Nalbach took place on August 25, 1732. The high altar was the patron saint of the Church of St. Lucia , the side altars were consecrated to Our Lady and St. Sebastian . In 1775, Cardinal Georgius de Lacaris gave the community the relics of St. Lucia. This was enclosed in a larger capsule and offered to the believers for a kiss. The capsule disappeared in the revolution , the bones were still used in the following century. The building, which took four years to build from 1728–1732, was again too small, as the population had grown rapidly with the development of the hut .

Cemetery chapel and body house (morgue) of the new cemetery built in 1872

The builder of today's church, Pastor Philipp Schmitt , still found u. a. the hat of a pointed arch and three keystones from the previous building. During the construction process that began in 1844 and ended in 1845, only one accident occurred. The planned construction costs of 9,000 thalers (1 thaler = 3 francs and 75 centimes) grew to 14,000 thalers . The pastor brought in his income and personal work equivalent to 1000 thalers. Philipp Schmitt documented the genesis of the new church building rather carelessly. The architect of the new building is so far unknown. The change of the previous patronage from St. Lucia to John the Baptist is also a mystery. Perhaps the deviation from the previous patronage of the Dillinger Church is due to the nearby former hermitage on the Limberg, which had joined the rule and way of life of the German congregation of the Hermit Brothers of St. John the Baptist. A certain proximity of the new church building to the architectural design language of the Koblenz architect Johann Claudius von Lassaulx , who shortly before in the years 1840/1841 had built the Hospitienhaus (today Canisianum ) in nearby Saarlouis , is conceivable. The blind arches used by St. Johann on the outside and inside also appear in Lassaulx's parish church St. Martin in Valwig (1824–27). The blind arch structure of the walls of St. Johann could also be inspired by the design of the late antique Trier Constantine Basilica, the reconstruction of which was initiated with the support of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. In 1844, when the construction of St. Johann began.

Johann Claudius von Lassaulx : St. Martin in Valwig
Trier, Basilica of Constantine

A design by the Trier government building officer Hoff, who planned the also late classicist Eligius Church , which was demolished in 1912, is also conceivable . Both churches had similar design features.

The simple hall construction in Dillingen was consecrated on November 9, 1845 by the Trier Bishop Wilhelm Arnoldi .

St. Johann from the southeast
inside view

The rectangular hall structure, structured in six axes, in the late Classicist arched style with a long choir and semicircular apse has a single- tower facade with a western tower that protrudes only by the thickness of the wall . The sparse relief of the light-colored and reddish outer walls made of sandstone with arches that frame the window openings of the nave wall creates a monumental effect. The plinth is cranked around the wall templates, which thus receive bases. This wall template system creates the impression of the arcade zone of a multi-nave church. The external structure of the wall is repeated inside. A small ornamental cornice under the roof zone creates a classicistic "frieze zone". The cornices are crooked around the tower. In this way, the west tower is optically firmly integrated into the facade. The slated church tower roof is designed as an octagonal bent helmet.

Around 1913, as part of restoration work, the main facade was given two side entrances with arched windows above, and the rectangular window above the central portal was bricked up.

The church was equipped with three altars, a silver chalice and a ciborium with silver domes. In 1847, three new bells were consecrated on the feast of the Assumption of Mary (August 15). Pastor Philipp Schmitt designed a sandstone baptismal font in the form of a stylized calyx, which is carried by a kneeling angel figure.

A figure of the patron saint of the church, St. John the Baptist , is attached to the wall to the left of the retracted choir . To the right of this is a crowned radiant Madonna with child. It was created around 1720 by the Guldner family of sculptors from Berus . The figure originally stood in the St. Maximin Church in Pachten , then came into private ownership and was donated to the parish of St. Johann in 1948. (The arrangement has been reversed since the last renovation: the Madonna was placed on the left, the church patron Johannes was positioned on the right of the choir.) The strong growth in the population of the community of Dillingen at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century prompted the building of the so-called Saardomes (actually church "(Holy Sacrament)"). In 1914 the parish rights of St. John were transferred to the new Church of the Holy Sacrament. After that, St. Johann was only used as a cemetery chapel. But already in 1935 the community was so numerous that a new pastoral care area St. Johann was established again and in 1942 the old parish was rebuilt.

During the Second World War, the church was so badly damaged that the service was held in an emergency church until September 5, 1948 . The neo-Gothic furnishings from the late 19th century were destroyed. With great effort, the previous shape was restored by the architect Heinrich Latz from Saarbrücken in 1947/1948 under the aegis of Pastor Mathias Weiland. The parishioners volunteered and donated money during the reconstruction. The original flat ceiling with large, concave fillets was not reinstalled. The room is now closed by a flat-arched, coffered barrel vault, which is accompanied by half-barrels and gives the room a cool, sublime effect. The church was consecrated on September 5, 1948. In 1959 the dilapidated belfry was renewed. High arched windows with modern glazing illuminate the room.

The imposing new high altar of the reconstruction phase made of greenish marble with white veins from Northern Italy was manufactured by the Dillingen company Oswald Sommer according to the design by Heinrich Latz. The cafeteria weighed 38 quintals and rested on four blocks (18 quintals) positioned next to each other, in which impressive symbols of the four evangelists were carved. During the renovation in the late 1970s, the marble altar was completely changed and repositioned: the high altar was to be converted into a people's altar. The cafeteria was reduced in size and the four pedestals with the evangelist reliefs were reassembled so that the reliefs are no longer fully visible. The communion bench with six wooden reliefs designed by Latz was also removed. At the end of February 1956, the Saarbrücken master goldsmith Karl Mittermüller completed the tabernacle with his angel figures wearing palm fronds in rectangular fields. It is currently inserted in a baroque high altar structure.

In 1978/1979 the interior of the church was extensively renovated according to the plans of the architect Heinrich Gellenberg. White spherical lights in the style of the 1970s, which, due to their offset hanging, looked like an installation made of bouncing balls of light, now illuminated the late classicist room. The pulpit from 1948 with the relief carving "Jesus preaches to industrial workers and farmers" and the communion bench with Eucharistic motifs have been removed. The pulpit was made into an altar-like table under an icon of Mary. The icon is a copy of the miraculous image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help . The original from the 14th century probably comes from the island of Crete ( Cretan School ). After changing locations, the original was in 1867 by Pope Pius IX. entrusted to the Redemptorist Order for its Roman church of Sant 'Alfonso , where it has since adorned the high altar. The Redemptorists contributed significantly to the spread of the image through their popular missions .

The Mother of God is shown on the icon inside the church in front of a gold background , which is supposed to symbolize the heavenly sphere. She wears a red undergarment and a dark blue, shiny upper garment with painted gold hatching. The veil of the Madonna is adorned with a golden star at the forehead level, which refers to the invocation of Mary as " Stella maris " (German sea star) of the Latin hymn Ave maris stella or as the morning star in the Lauretanian litany . The hint of nimbus adorned Mary's head is flanked by Greek abbreviations that identify her as "Mother of God". On her left arm Mary carries the baby Jesus, dressed in green and red and gold . The head of the child is surrounded by a nimbus , to the right of it the name "Jesus Christ" is abbreviated in Greek letters.

The buttocks of the baby Jesus are held in the mother's left hand and grab her right hand with both hands. His head, nestled in the crook of Mary's neck, is turned away from his mother. The gaze of little Jesus turns to a cross that the floating Archangel Gabriel carries with his hands covered as a sign of awe. As if by a gesture of anticipatory shock, the little sandal has come off one of the child's feet and is about to fall to the ground.

On the other side of the head of Mary hovers the archangel Michael , who also holds up the instruments of Christ's passion with covered hands . Greek letters mark the names of the two archangels depicted, which, according to the rules of the perspective of meaning , are depicted by the icon painter much smaller than the virgin with the child.

During the renovation work in 1978, a Gothic-looking, clover-leaf-shaped window niche was opened in the apse above the high altar and a round window was inserted. The round stained glass window depicts the apocalyptic lamb and was designed by the Saarbrücken artist Ernst Alt . In the vicinity of Dillingen, Ernst Alt also designed the church portal of the St. Johann Basilica in Saarbrücken in the years 1980–1986 and the cycle of stained glass windows in the Church of St. Ludwig in Saarlouis from 1980–2006 . During the renovation in the 1970s, white spherical lights that defined the space were installed, which were replaced with simple wheeled lights during a renewed renovation in 2008. The yellowish tint of the room from the 1970s was also replaced by a greenish one.

Dillingen, Schwedenkreuz on the outer wall of the Johanneskirche

On the east side of the church, the Dillinger Schwedenkreuz stands today in place of the chapel of the old cemetery . It is also called the plague cross or the Bodinets cross. Bodinet was the owner of the house where the cross originally stood. The baroque cross made of light sandstone bears the date 1771 and had to be extensively restored after severe damage in the war winter of 1944/1945. Two small putti float in the niche flanked by C-curves above the plinth canteen . The skull of Adam from Mount Golgotha appears in a shell above , because according to Christian tradition Adam was buried there. The paradise sin on the tree of knowledge is here, according to the artist, canceled by the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.

In the new cemetery, which was laid out in 1872 directly behind the church, there is the listed Defrance crypt , in which Charles-Nicolas Peaucellier was buried, and the Hill's cross .

In the wall of the tower hall of the church is the grave slab of Albert de Lasalle, which previously marked his burial place in the old Luzienkirche. The son of Georges Theodore and Ursule Catherine Lasalle, Albert de Lasalle (born May 11, 1722 in Saarlouis, † June 26, 1769 in Wallerfangen / Niederlimberg), took over the parental estates in together with his wife Charlotte (née d'Osquet) Bettingen, Limbach and Saarlouis, was a councilor and alderman in Saarlouis and increased his fortune as an army supplier. In 1755 he is mentioned as "avocat en Parlement" and as a fiefdom holder in Berus, Berweiler, Edelingen and a Schmittenburg Unterlehens. From 1757 he was Inspector General of the Three Bishoprics ( Trois-Évêchés et de la Lorraine). As a result of the acquisition of the Dillingen rule, he succeeded on July 11, 1763 on the recommendation of the Trier Elector Johann IX. Philipp von Walderdorff was raised to the German nobility by the German Emperor Franz I. Stephan as a baron . This title was recognized as a hereditary title of nobility after Lorraine was annexed to France in 1766. In the same year, the imperial city of Cologne granted him its council and citizenship rights. When he died in 1769 in the Saarengt Castle in Wallerfangen-Niederlimberg (today Villeroy Castle), he was buried at his own request in the old Luzienkirche in Dillingen.

A Latin inscription in the successor building of the Luzienkirche, today's Dillinger parish church St. Johann, reminds of him:

"D (EO) O (PTIMO) M (AXIMO) HIC JACET ALBERTUS LASALLE DE DILLING UNUS E REI FRUMENTARIAE CURATORIBUS. OFFICIO HAUD IMPAR INTEGRITATE, DOMINO FIDELIS, HONESTOQUE DEVINCTUS EXTITIT. LAUDIS AVIDIOREM QUAM PECUNIAE, SENATUS POPULUS QUE COLONIENSIS CIVITATE DONAVIT. QUIN ET IPSOMET SERENISSIMO ELECTORE ADNITENTE, SACRA CAESAREA MAIESTAS AD ORDINEM NOBILIUM TRADUXIT. PAUPERUM AMANTEM PAUPERES REDAMAVERE. SUPLICATIONIBUS SUO NOMINE AC SUMPTU FACTIS. MORTEM ILLIUS NEQUIQUAM DEPRECATI, CONJUGIS INSOLABILITER MOERENTIS, LUCTUM ET DESIDERIA PROPE AEQUAVERE. HAY PRISCA FIDES. HAY MORUM LENITAS. HAY VITAE HONESTE ET ELEGANT ACTAE PERPETUUS TENOR. UTINAM OLIM FILII PATERNARUM LAUDUM AEMULI EXTANT. OBIIT DIE XXVII JUNII ANNI DOMINI M DCC LXVIIII AETATIS VERE SUAE XLVII ORATE DEUM PRO EO. "

The Latin inscription reads in German translation:

“To the best and highest God. Albert Lasalle from Dillingen rests here. As an army supplier, he served his office with honesty. He was faithful to the Lord and entirely devoted to the honorable. He, who was more concerned with honor than money, gifted the Senate and the citizens of Cologne with citizenship . On the recommendation of the most noble elector (meaning the elector of Trier ) even the Holy Imperial Highness raised him to the nobility . Him who loved the poor, the poor loved again. Intercessions were made in his name and at his expense. Since they had pleaded in vain to avert his death, they almost made up for the grief and pain of the grieving wife. Oh venerable belief! Oh calm being of his manners! What an honorable and brilliant life uninterrupted. May the sons also seek paternal praise one day! He died on June 27, 1769, the year of the Lord, aged 47. Pray to God for him. "

It remains unclear whether Lasalle's bones were exhumed and buried in today's church, or whether they are still in the leveled area of ​​the old church.

  • Sacred sculptures in the church of St. Johann in Dillingen / Saar

  • Dillingen, St. Johann church, high altar with clover leaf window

  • Dillingen, St. Johann church, baroque radiant Madonna, side altar

  • Dillingen, St. Johann church, parish patron Johannes the Baptist (historicism), side altar

  • Dillingen, Church of St. Johann, Saint Wendelin as shepherd and abbot (baroque)

  • Dillingen, St. Johann church, Maria with the baby Jesus (baroque)

  • Dillingen, Church of St. Johann, Saint Sebastian (Baroque)

  • Dillingen, Church of St. Johann, Saint Joseph with baby Jesus (baroque)

  • Dillingen, St. Johann church, baptismal font by Philipp Schmitt (1st half of the 19th century)

organ

Organ loft

The organ of the church was built in 1957 by the organ building company Orgelbau Romanus Seifert & Sohn ( Kevelaer ). The instrument was inaugurated on January 3, 1957 by the Dillinger dean Alois Molter (1905–1984, dean: 1957–1969). The Kegelladen instrument has 24 (25) registers , divided into 2 manuals and pedal . The action mechanism is electro-pneumatic, the stop action is electric. The pitch is 440 Hz. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Quintadena 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. recorder 4 ′
6th Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Night horn 2 ′
8th. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
9. Mixture IV-VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Shawm Trumpet 8th'
II positive and swell C – g 3
11. Lovely Gedackt 8th'
12. Willow pipe 8th' +
13. Sing. Principal 4 ′
14th Pointed flute 4 ′ +
15th Principal 2 ′ +
16. Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Sharp III 1' +
18th musette 8th'
tremolo
Pedal C – f 1
19th Sub-bass 16 ′
Soft bass (wind reduction No. 19) 16 ′
20th Principal bass 8th'
21st Thought bass 8th'
22nd Chorale bass 4 ′
23. Quintad 2 ′
24. trombone 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids : 2 free combinations, single tongue storage, tutti, roller
  • Remarks
+ = Register in swell box

Bells

In 1913 the St. Johann church had already received a bell from the Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen / Bremen. But it was melted down during the war. In 1959, the  Saarlouiser bell foundry in Saarlouis-Fraulautern, which had been founded by Karl (III) Otto from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and Alois Riewer from Saarland in 1953, cast two bronze bells with the striking tones for St. Johann for St. Johann: it ' and b '. The bells have the following diameters: 1374 mm, 877 mm, and weigh: 1445 kg, 420 kg.

Pastor of the parish of Dillingen (today St. Johann)

  • 1317: a pastor Gerardus is mentioned
  • until 1389: Pastor Nikolaus
  • from 1389: Arnold von Wallerfangen
  • + 1427: Wilhelem Peysgeys
  • + 1480: Nicholas
  • from 1480: Peter von Vianden
  • until 1531: Wendalinus von St. Wendel
  • from 1531: Thilmann von Dillingen
  • until 1543: Jakob von Diedenhofen
  • from 1543: Johann Hirzich von Arlon
  • 1569: Johann Syranus (mentioned)
  • 1612, 1618, 1626: Cornelius Fusmann of Cologne
  • 1647, 1632, 1660, 1662: Martin Hecker of Saxony
  • around 1670 - 1713: Theodor Kestenbach von Euren
  • 1713–1732: Johann Leonhard Flock (Luxembourg)
  • 1732–1753: Johann Baptist Weber
  • 1754–1766: Johann Weisgerber von Fraulautern
  • 1766–1804: Johann Michael Theis (Saarlouis)
  • 1804–1807: Michael Dusable v. Bouzonville
  • 1807–1818: Anton Pontry von Saarlouis
  • 1818–1819: Philipp Christoph Grandeler
  • 1819–1826: Robert Billen
  • 1826–1832: Nikolaus Steinbacher
  • 1833–1848: Philipp Schmitt
  • 1848–1868: Johann Baptist Ehl
  • 1869–1907: Dean Johann Peter Hillen
  • 1907–1913: Dr. Matias Prior
  • 1913–1935: Dissolution of the St. Johann parish, Dr. Prior became pastor of the Holy Sacrament in Dillingen. St. Johann was a side church
  • 1935–1946: Friedrich Busch (with the re-establishment of the parish)
  • 1946–1959: Mathias Weiland
  • 1959–1967: Mathias Röder
  • 1967–1968: Schommer religion teacher as administrator
  • 1968–1981: Wilhelm Heckmann
  • 1981–1982: vacancy; Parish administration by Dean Thomas Kopp
  • 1982–1994: Heinz Barth
  • 1994–1995: vacancy; Parish administration by Father Paul Hoffmann
  • 1995–1998: Pastoral care unit with Holy Sacrament, Pastor Dean Warnfried Bartmann
  • 1998–2005: Pastoral care unit with Holy Sacrament, Pastor Ottmar Dillenburg
  • 2005–2006: vacancy; Parish administration by Pastor Patrik Schmidt, St. Maximin
  • 2006–2011: Pastoral care unit with Holy Sacrament and St. Josef, Diefflen; Pastor Gerhard Jacob
  • September 1st, 2011: Foundation of the pastoral care district “Parish Community Dillingen” together with Maria Trost and St. Maximin. Leading priests: Patrik Schmidt and Gerhard Jacob. All parishes still have parish rights.

literature

  • Günther Bellmann, Armin Jost; History workshop Dillingen / Saar e. V. (Ed.): The old parish - history of the parish of St. Johann Dillingen . Dillingen 2010.
  • Philipp de Lorenzi: Contributions to the history of all parishes in the Diocese of Trier, Trier 1887, pp. 329–332.
  • Handbook of the Diocese of Trier, 20th edition, Trier 1952, p. 280.
  • Katholisches Bildungswerk Dillingen-Nalbach e. V. (Ed.): 100 years of Saardom Holy Sacrament Dillingen, 1000 years of Dillingen parish, commemorative publication for the anniversary of the church consecration on April 25, 2013, Dillingen 2012.
  • Aloys Lehnert: History of the city of Dillingen / Saar . Dillingen 1968.
  • Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 216–217, images p. 445.
  • Parish Leader St. Johann Dillingen-Saar, ed. v. Catholic rectory St. Johann Dillingen / Saar, Stuttgart 1962.
  • L. Sudbrack et al. A. Jakob (Ed.): The Catholic Saarland, Home and Church, Saarbrücken 1954–1956, II / III, 1954, p. 28f.
  • Michael Tritz: History of the Wadgassen Abbey, At the same time a cultural and war history of the Saar region, unchanged reprint of the 1901 edition of Wadgassen with an introduction by Hans-Walter Herrmann and a register, Saarbrücken 1978, 417-418.
  • Willi Weyres / Albrecht Mann: Handbook on Rhenish Architecture of the 19th Century (1800–1880), Cologne 1968, p. 158.
  • Walter Zimmermann: The art monuments of the Ottweiler and Saarlouis districts, edited by Walter Zimmermann, 2nd edition, Saarbrücken 1976, p. 176.

Web links

Commons : St. Johann (Dillingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list of the Saarlouis district ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), accessed on May 23, 2014
  2. ↑ Dillingen-Saar parish community at: www.pfarierendengemeinschaft-dillingen-saar.de, accessed on May 23, 2014
  3. ↑ Manfred Kostka: History of the Parish Dillingen from its beginnings to the division in 1935, in: Katholisches Bildungswerk Dillingen-Nalbach eV (Ed.): 100 years Saardom, Holy Sacrament Dillingen, 1000 years Parish Dillingen, commemorative publication for the anniversary of the church consecration on 25. April 2013, Dillingen 2012. pp. 17–65, here p. 27. with reference to: Jakob Marx: History of the Parishes of the Diocese of Trier, Volume I, General, Trier 1923, pp. 102–119.
  4. ↑ Manfred Kostka: History of the Parish Dillingen from its beginnings to the division in 1935, in: Katholisches Bildungswerk Dillingen-Nalbach eV (Ed.): 100 years Saardom, Holy Sacrament Dillingen, 1000 years Parish Dillingen, commemorative publication for the anniversary of the church consecration on 25. April 2013, Dillingen 2012. pp. 17–65, here p. 37. with reference to: Philipp Schmitt: Geschichtsbuch von Dillingen, I, p. 7.
  5. ↑ Michael Tritz: History of the Wadgassen Abbey, Simultaneously a cultural and war history of the Saar area, unchanged reprint of the 1901 edition of Wadgassen with an introduction by Hans-Walter Herrmann and a register, Saarbrücken 1978, pp. 417-418.
  6. ↑ Günther Bellmann, Armin Jost: The old parish, history of the parish St. Johann Dillingen, ed. vd history workshop Dillingen / Saar e. V., Dillingen 2010, p. 18.
  7. ↑ Oranna Elisabeth Dimmig: Saarlouis Stadt und Stern / Sarrelouis - Ville et Étoile, translation into French: Anne-Marie Werner, ed. v. Roland Henz and Jo Enzweiler Saarbrücken 2011, p. 118.
  8. ↑ Art Guide Dillingen / Saar, ed. from Kunstverein Dillingen im Alten Schloss, Saarbrücken and Dillingen 1999, pp. 14-16.
  9. ↑ The Beruser Baroque is shaped by the sculptor brothers Peter (* 1725), Adam (* 1731; † 1810), Christian († before 1793) and Georg (* 1736; † 1808) Guldner, whose works are also in the Beruser St. Martin (Berus) can be seen.
  10. ↑ Art Guide Dillingen / Saar, ed. from Kunstverein Dillingen im Alten Schloss, Saarbrücken and Dillingen 1999, p. 16.
  11. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacral Buildings of Classicism and Historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 216–217, images p. 445.
  12. ^ Father of the landscape architect Peter Latz
  13. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacral Buildings of Classicism and Historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, p. 217, pictures p. 445.
  14. ↑ Hans Peter Buchleitner: Cultural Reconstruction in the Saarland, 1945–1955, A text and picture work, Volume I, Reconstruction, new and extension of churches, chapels, monasteries, parish and youth homes, community houses etc. in the state capital as in the districts of Saarlouis and Merzig-Wadern, Saarbrücken 1955, pp. 62–65.
  15. ↑ Hans Peter Buchleitner: Cultural Reconstruction in Saarland, Text and Image, Volume II, additions to the church structure in Saarbrücken and in the parishes of both Christian denominations of the Saarlouis and Merzig-Wadern districts, Saarbrücken 1959, p. 52.
  16. ↑ Art Guide Dillingen / Saar, ed. from Kunstverein Dillingen im Alten Schloss, Saarbrücken and Dillingen 1999, pp. 14-16.
  17. ↑ Margarethe Thinnes: Crosses and wayside shrines in Saarland, Saarbrücken 1985, p. 46.
  18. ^ Aloys Lehnert: History of the City of Dillingen / Saar, Dillingen 1968, p. 156.
  19. ^ Theodor Liebertz: Wallerfangen and his story, Wallerfangen 1953, p. 354.
  20. ↑ Günther Bellmann and Armin Jost: The old parish, history of the parish of St. Johann Dillingen, ed. from the history workshop Dillingen / Saar e. V., Dillingen 2010, pp. 56-57.
  21. ↑ http://www.saarland-biografien.de/frontend/php/result_detail.php?id=1484 accessed on July 12, 2017.
  22. ↑ Hans Peter Buchleitner: Cultural Reconstruction in Saarland, Text and Image, Volume II, additions to the church structure in Saarbrücken and in the parishes of both Christian denominations of the Saarlouis and Merzig-Wadern districts, Saarbrücken 1959, p. 29.
  23. ↑ The organ of the parish church St. Johann Dillingen on: www.organindex.de, accessed on May 23, 2014
  24. ↑ Original data sheet of the organ consecration
  25. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, in particular pages 352, 519, 568 .
  26. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, in particular pp. 483, 519 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  27. ^ Günther Bellmann / Armin Jost; History workshop Dillingen / Saar e. V. (Ed.): The old parish - history of the parish of St. Johann Dillingen, Dillingen 2010.
  28. ↑ Lehnert-Aloys in saarland-biografien ( Memento from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '1.7 "  N , 6 ° 43' 37.6"  E