St. Johannes (Rohrbach)
The St. Johannes Baptist Church is a Catholic parish church in Rohrbach , a district of St. Ingbert . Church patron is John the Baptist . In the list of monuments of the Saarland the church building is a single monument listed.
history
Before the parish of St. Johannes was founded in Rohrbach , the Catholic inhabitants of Rohrbach belonged to the parish of St. Engelbert in St. Ingbert. Efforts to leave the St. Ingbert parish developed over the course of the 19th century. The first sign of the separation from St. Ingbert was the right to create a cemetery of their own around 1819/20 . The desire for a church of their own in Rohrbach was expressed in 1849. In order to implement the project, a church building association was founded in 1863 to collect the necessary financial resources for church building. The monthly house collections that followed brought in an amount of 4040 guilders by 1868 . This was by far not enough to get permission to build a church from the government of the Rhine district in Speyer , in which Rohrbach was located at that time, which resulted in the construction project stagnating. Due to the steadily increasing number of the population towards the end of the 19th century, things got moving again, as the Engelbert Church in St. Ingbert , built in 1755, no longer offered enough space for the parishioners of St. Ingbert and Rohrbach. Initially, Rohrbach was given the status of a branch of the St. Ingbert parish, and a church service room was set up in an empty hall of the Wiesental School built in 1880 . The first service in Rohrbach took place there on January 15, 1885. But in order to become an independent parish, one still needed a church of its own. A building site for the church had already been acquired in 1870 and in 1884 a building was bought to serve as the future rectory . When sufficient financial resources were available for the construction and the building permit was available, architect Karl August Barth ( Kaiserslautern ) prepared the plans for the church building to be erected, for which master builder Christian Hocke (Kaiserslautern) was responsible. The foundation stone was laid on October 18, 1891, and the shell was completed in autumn 1892 . But on October 16, 1892, the tower that had just been completed collapsed. After the tower had been rebuilt, on December 24, 1893, the benediction of the branch church could be carried out by Pastor Zimmer from St. Ingbert.
The elevation of the Rohrbach branch to its own parish now also took on concrete forms. A petition for parish elevation, submitted in 1893, received the support of the Bavarian-Palatinate government on February 5, 1895, and on April 23, 1895, Prince Regent Luitpold, as the ruling head of state of Bavaria, signed the parish elevation document. The canonization of the new parish by the Speyer Ordinariate under Bishop Joseph Georg von Ehrler took place on May 11, 1895. The branch church had thus officially become a parish church.
In 1992–93 the church was restored .
Buildings and equipment
The church building was built in the style of historicism . This architectural style is characterized by the use of older styles. In the case of St. John, the neo-Romanesque formal language dominates . The church is divided from north to south into a tower with a pointed helmet , a five-axis nave with double arched windows and a five-sided polygonal choir . The tower, which is built in front of the northern narrow side of the nave in the longitudinal axis, is flanked on the side by two two-storey stair towers.
Inside there are works by the sculptor Metzler (Mohrbach), who created a Way of the Cross in 1932 , the sculptor Helmut Schollenberg (Speyer), who created an altar , an ambo and a tabernacle , each made in bronze from 1992–93 , and the sculptor Eduard Spohn (Ensheim), who created a marble block in 1992–93 on which the tabernacle rests.
organ
The church's equipment also includes an organ that was built in 1912 by the Johannes Klais Orgelbau company . In 1980 the organ was rebuilt, which was also carried out by the Klais Orgelbau company. The instrument has 25 registers spread over two manuals and pedal . The disposition is as follows:
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Sub-octave coupling: II / I
- Super octave coupling: II / I, II / P
- Playing aids : two free combinations, tutti, freely adjustable pedal combination, crescendo, individual tongue storage
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list Saarpfalz-Kreis (PDF; 1.2 MB), accessed on June 20, 2012
- ↑ a b The emergence of the two Catholic parishes and churches in Rohrbach. On: www.rohrbach-nostalgie.de, accessed on April 27, 2014
- ↑ a b Information on the parish church of St. Johannes at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on June 16, 2012
- ↑ Organ of the Church of St. John (Catholic) ( Memento of the original from April 27, 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. Info page of the Orgeln im Saarland website , accessed on June 16, 2012
Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 59.2 " N , 7 ° 9 ′ 51.5" E