St. John and Paulus (Beckingen)

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The Catholic parish church of St. John and Paul in Beckingen

The Church of St. John and Paul is a Catholic parish church in Beckingen , Merzig-Wadern district , Saarland . The church bears the rare patronage of the two imperial palace officials, early Christian martyrs and weather saints John and Paulus of Rome and is listed as an individual monument in the Saarland's list of monuments . The church is assigned to the diocese of Trier and the dean's office in Merzig. The Church's patronage is celebrated on June 26th.

history

Franz Xaver Leidinger (1810–1890), builder of the neo-Gothic Beckinger Church: picture no. 35, “A conference of six pastors”, v. l. No. Pastor Goebel von Serrig; Pastor German, former royal Prussian school inspector and director of the agricultural school in Merchingen, pensioner in Menzlich near Konz; Pastor Philipp Schmitt von Dillingen, later Trier St. Paulin; Pastor Franz Xaver Leidinger von Beckingen; Pastor Herber von Kastel near Saarburg, later Leiwen on the Moselle; Postor Heinesch von Bietzen; behind Franz Xaver Leidinger you can see a painting on an easel that shows the old Beckingen church (1843, 84 cm × 63 cm, Beckingen rectory)

middle Ages

The first documentary mention of a church in Beckingen dates from 1254. The St. Mary's bell of today's church, which was cast in 1388 and thus represents the oldest surviving bell in the Saarland, originally hung in this church.

Late Gothic church building and patronage

Beckingen, late Gothic parish church, drawing
Beckingen, late Gothic parish church, interior (painting in the Beckingen parish archive)
Beckingen, late Gothic parish church, photo from 1873/74

In 1580, the Jesuits from Trier had a new church built on the Bolzenberg, which was the second church in this place. The Marienbell rang also in this church, which had become partially dilapidated in the middle of the 19th century . This predecessor of today's church was on the lowest terrace of today's Beckinger cemetery. The Jesuit building initiative can be explained by the fact that in 1565 the right of patronage passed over the parish of Beckingen to the Trier Jesuit branch. Previously, the patronage had been at the Trier Dominican convent of St. Barbara for over three hundred years . The background was that around the middle of the 13th century the members of a rich Trier knight family , Ponzetta de Lapide, wife of Eberhard III. von Oberstein, who had transferred the patronage rights of the Beckingen Church to the Dominican convent of St. Barbara in Trier in 1254. In addition, Ponzetta had given the monastery extensive possessions within the Beckingen district. This donation was confirmed by the Trier bishop Arnold II of Isenburg and the Beckingen parish church was incorporated into the Trier St. Barbara monastery.

The Trier monastery had to struggle with financial bottlenecks throughout its existence and was finally dissolved in 1556. The ownership of the monastery, including the Beckinger St.-Barbara-Hof, then went to the Trier Monastery with all of its income . Nevertheless, the Duke of Lorraine, Charles III. , represented by his bailiff on the Lorraine state castle Siersberg on the opposite side of the Saar from Beckingen, entered the former cloister courtyard and the Archbishop of Trier went empty-handed. Since Beckingen was part of the Duchy of Lorraine, Charles III saw himself. right to be able to withdraw the Beckinger property from the Hochstift Trier. It was only with the help of the mother of Duke Karl, Christina of Denmark , niece of Emperor Charles V , that the Archbishop of Trier managed to leave the Beckingen court property and the patronage rights to Beckingen and Fickingen to the newly founded Jesuit branch in Trier in 1565. However, the ducal sovereignty over the Beckingen property and the patronage rights of the Beckingen church retained the Duchy of Lorraine . The Jesuits in Trier leased the St.-Barbara-Hof in Beckingen, as did the Dominicans. The farm estate comprised 53 acres of arable land, four and a half acres of vineyards, two acres of gardens and 47 truckloads of hay mowing. The courtyard, which had already burned down in 1558, was completely destroyed in the Thirty Years War and had to be rebuilt as a result.

After the repeal of the Jesuit order in 1773 by Pope Clement XIV, the St. Barbara Court was transferred to the Trier seminary , which held the property until the French Revolution.

For those coming from the German order from Beckingen , the St. Barbara court and the church patronage were like a stake in the flesh of their domain. On the one hand, he was economically attractive, on the other hand, as a ruling exclave he disturbed the Teutonic Knights. The starting point of the disputes between the court owners and the Teutonic Order were the contractually agreed reservations of grazing rights between the Trier Dominicans and Gerhard von Beckingen in 1288 on the Beckinger ban. Since the rights of Gerhard von Beckingen had passed to the Teutonic Order, the knights tried to deny the St. Barbara court the grazing rights in order to weaken the court as a whole economically. In the period that followed, there were constant disputes.

In 1556, in the wake of the dissolution of the Dominican convent of St. Barbara in Trier, in its function as secular authority of Beckingen, the Teutonic Order even attempted to withdraw the rights and possessions of the nuns in Beckingen. But this met with the displeasure of the Trier Elector and Archbishop Johann VI. von der Leyen and the Duke of Lorraine Charles III. Even the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order Wolfgang Schutzbar did not support the Beckinger Coming's request. Finally, in 1607, a final compromise was found. At that time, the Jesuits in Trier had already taken over the St.-Barbara-Hof. The Jesuits received tithes of the income from the leased sheep farms. The Teutonic order commander and the leaseholder of the St. Barbara Court had to perform labor services for the Teutonic Knights.

The dissolution of the Jesuit order in France in 1764 provided Beckingen with the death of the last Duke of Lorraine, Stanislaus , providing a new opportunity for the Beckinger comedian to come into possession of the St. Barbara court and the Beckingen church patronage I. Leszczyński , in 1766 to the French crown of King Louis XV. like. The Beckinger Kommende made the Trier Jesuits the offer, by selling their possessions to the Teutonic Order, a possible confiscation by King Ludwig XV. to forestall. Although the Jesuit order had sympathy for this coup, no contract was signed. Thus, in the history of the Beckingen Teutonic Order, the knights' last attempt to gain power over all of Beckingen had failed.

Architecture of the late Gothic church

Steinberg, parish church St. Liborius with the old baroque Beckinger high altar
Wendalinus Chapel, Saarfels; The original building dates from the 15th century and was the hunting band of the Teutonic Order in Beckingen. Its cubature shows some similarities with the old late Gothic Beckingen parish church.

Beckinger Church was renovated again in 1757. The late Gothic building consisted largely of plastered quarry stone masonry, while the buttresses, the walls, the vaults and the tower corners were made of stone. The Beckinger Friedhof was around the church. In front of the church in the direction of the village street, a linden-surrounded village square with a village well was laid out. The three-axis church had two aisles and was east-facing . The late Gothic vault rested on two central pillars. The internal dimensions were about 11 m by 8 m. The two-axis apse closed on three sides. Their dimensions were about 8 m deep by 7 m wide. The interior had a gallery, a Baroque main altar and two side altars ( Our Lady Altar, left, and Anthony of Padua Altar, right) in the same style. The high altar stands in the St. Liborius Church in Waderner district Steinberg . The pulpit was on the north wall of the ship. The three-storey tower with bell chamber and tower clock was in front of the west side of the sacred building. The gallery was accessible through the wooden tower staircase. The slated church tower roof was designed as an octagonal bent helmet. The belfry opened in romanised sound windows coupled by columns. Due to a lack of space, a two-part entrance hall with a pent roof was built in front of the tower and the first window axis in 1821, which provided temporary space for worshipers. Around 1840 the parish numbered around 840 souls. The sacristy was built onto the apse and was covered by a pent roof. The church windows were ogival and had no tracery. The church roof was slated and the interior floor was covered with sandstone slabs. The inside walls were whitewashed.

Demolition of the late Gothic church

After the rebuilding of the neo-Gothic Beckinger Church, the church council decided in September 1877 to demolish the old late Gothic Beckinger Church, which had been vacant since 1863. The debts of the new building were to be financed through the sale of the stone material. The representatives of the civil parish of Beckingen supported the demolition, as they wanted to expand the churchyard at the site of the old church. Emerich Knebel (1839–1898, term of office in Merzig: 1875–1891), the district administrator of the Merzig district and at that time owner of the former Beckinger Deutschherrenkommende, wanted to preserve the church due to its historical and art-historical importance and therefore refused to demolish it. However, since the royal Prussian government authority in Trier had refused a financial grant to maintain the building, the old Beckingen church was cleared for demolition. The demolition took place in the years 1880 to 1881.

New building in the 19th century

Carl Friedrich Müller (born June 14, 1833 in Hersfeld ; † August 1, 1889 ibid.), Master builder of the Saarlouis district , executive architect of the Church of St. Johannes and Paulus in Beckingen based on plans by R. Vogdt, photo from 1870

Initially, it was planned in 1856 to only expand the existing early modern church. The renowned Cologne architect Vincenz Statz , who later also built the tower front of St. Ludwig's Church in nearby Saarlouis , provided the plans and estimated the construction costs at around 4,500 thalers . However, after an examination of Statz's plans by the Saarlouis master builder Birk had shown a construction cost of 7,450 thalers, the financing no longer appeared secure and the plans were put on hold. Finally, in 1859, Statz's plans to expand were given up in favor of a completely new building project. Since a railway line on the Saar with a train station was being built in Beckingen at that time, contact was made with the local construction manager R. Vogdt in 1859 and he was hoping for planning help from him. Vogdt then drafted plans for a sacred building in Beckingen free of charge.

The final plans for today's neo-late gothic new building were ultimately carried out by the Saarlouis architect Carl Friedrich Müller , largely implementing the ideas of R. Vogdt, who created his first work in the field of neo-Gothic sacred buildings and finally took over the construction management in 1860.

The ceremonial foundation stone was laid on June 30, 1861. After two and a half years of construction was the new Beckinger church on November 15, 1863 benediziert and July 30 in 1865 by the newly enthroned Bishop of Trier Leopold Pelldram consecrated to be. The old church from the 16th century was demolished in 1880/1881.

Restorations

From 1908 to 1912 the interior of the church was restored . In 1909 there was an extension by adding a second sacristy . At the end of the 1940s, there were further restoration and conversion work. a. concerned the side entrance on the southeast side. In addition, a new staircase was created and the path to the church expanded. Further restorations were carried out in 1956 and 1973. In the 1973 measure, a stone conservation was carried out, which led to consequential damage and made a renewed restoration necessary between 2006 and 2007.

Church building

  • Beckingen, look inside the church

  • R. Vogdt: First construction plan of the side view of the Church of St. Johannes and Paulus (Beckingen) from 1859 (parish archive)

  • R. Vogdt: First construction plan for the tower front of the Church of St. Johannes and Paulus (Beckingen) from 1859 (parish archive)

  • Beckingen, apse with high altar

  • Beckingen, portal

  • Beckingen, structure of the tower facade

  • Holy Trinity and St. Marien (Lebach) , church exterior around 1900

  • Nuremberg , St. Lorenz Church , tower portal

  • St. Petri Church in Berlin

  • St. Wendel, tower front of the Wendalinus basilica

  • St. Wendel , interior of the Wendalinus basilica

The church building is a three-nave hall church built in the neo-late Gothic style . The nave , divided into a central nave and two flanking, somewhat lower and narrower aisles , is divided into six transverse rectangular bays . Since the central nave rises a little higher than the side aisles, the church building can also be referred to as a relay hall or a stepped hall . The ships are grouped under a common gable roof . A five-sided choir of equal width with a polygonal end is attached to the nave . The ceilings of the three naves are formed by ribbed vaults that grow out of the very slim round pillars without capital. In the aisles, too, the ribs rise straight out of the wall without a console or wall template. The floor is covered with colorful Mettlach tiles.

The outer walls of the ship are structured by stepped buttresses that accommodate the yoke division of the interior. The pointed arch windows on the narrow sides of the tower, on the nave and in the choir area are decorated with two-lane tracery and four-passages . The bell tower is arranged in a rectangular shape in front of the nave. At the gable height, the tower floor is divided into three parts by wall templates and thus visually prepares the tapering from the rectangular floor plan to the square floor plan of the open floor. The narrow sides of the tower rectangle are crowned by gables. An octagonal bell storey rises above the square of the tower, on the sides of which rise small gables. The octagonal part of the tower of the Beckinger Church quotes the upper parts of the tower of St. Lorenz Church in Nuremberg . The neo-Gothic facade of the Petrikirche in Berlin-Cölln , which was inaugurated in 1853 in the presence of Friedrich Wilhelm IV . However, the tower octagon is made much more elongated here. The recesses of Beckinger tower are by pinnacles with finials accented. Above the neo-late Gothic main portal with cantilever arch , glazed tracery tympanum and eyelashes with flanking pinnacles and finial, there are larger-than-life statues of the two church patrons St. John and St. Paul in flat niches on consoles and under canopies.

Architect Carl Friedrich Müller designed the Lebach Church of the Holy Trinity and St. Mary, built between 1881 and 1883, based on the model of the Beckinger Church . The rectangular architectural design of the tower front of the Beckinger and Lebach churches could be inspired by the very broad tower front of the Gothic Wendalinus basilica in St. Wendel , which was built around 1400 . Here, however, the viewer has to think away from the spiers of the flank towers and the baroque central dome. Instead of the baroque St. Wendel hood, there is an octagonal structure with a pointed helmet in Beckingen and Lebach, modeled on the Nuremberg Lorenz Church. The interior of the Beckinger Church also seems to be based strongly on the interior design of the St. Wendel Church.

St. Johannes and Paulus (Beckingen), high altar in Easter decorations

All of the stones in the church building came from a quarry near the building site . The initiator for the construction of the church was Pastor Franz Xaver Leidinger, who, as a passionate painter and artist, also designed the church with his own designs. From him come u. a. the drafts for the organ prospectus , the original way of the cross (in parts currently visible again on the inner walls of the side aisles), and the elevation of the high altar . The center of the high altar is a painting that was created by Leidinger himself. A plaque in the choir reminds of Leidinger with its Latin inscription: "Templum hoc aedificatum a RD Leidinger parocho 1861-1863 consecratum est a RDD Peldram Episcopo Trevir. The 30th August 1865." (Translation: This temple was built in the years 1861–1863 by the Reverend Pastor Leidinger and consecrated by the Reverend Bishop of Trier, Pelldram on August 30, 1865. ")

The church underwent extensive renovation and refurbishment in 2006/2007 and was restored to its condition before the First World War . So was u. a. the decorative painting in the Nazarene style restored.

Two stations of the original Way of the Cross, which was created according to the designs of Leidinger, were exposed again as part of the renovation of the church in 2006/2007. In 1905, on the orders of the Bishop of Trier, Leidinger's painted Way of the Cross was overpainted and replaced by one made of terracotta sculptures , as the kerosene lamps customary at the time had blackened the murals too much.

The church's furnishings include numerous neo-Gothic figures of saints that have recently been renovated and repositioned. The font comes from the previous church that was demolished.

The building has the following dimensions:

  • maximum height of the central nave: 12.82 m
  • maximum height of the aisles: 10.92 m
  • Height of the choir: 12.25 m
  • Height of the tower including the tower cross with cock: 44.10 m
  • Length of the nave: 28.56 m
  • Width of the central nave: 7.24 m
  • Width of the aisles: 3.61 m
  • Total width of the nave: 14.46 m
  • Length of the choir: 10.21 m
  • Width of the choir: 8.12 m
  • Diameter of the pillars: 0.68 m
  • total outer length of the church: 47.01 m
  • overall outer width of the ship: 18.44 m

organ

View to the organ gallery

The organ of the church was built in 1913 as Opus 523 by the Johannes Klais Orgelbau company ( Bonn ). In 1959 the company Haerpfer & Erman (Boulay / Lothringen) rescheduled. The cone shop instrument is set up on a gallery and has 23 registers , divided into 2 manuals and pedal . The playing and stop action is pneumatic. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Bordunal flute 8th'
3. Fugara 8th'
4th Salicional 8th'
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Flute 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Super octave 2 ′
II Swell C – g 3
9. Horn principal 8th'
10. Flauto 8th'
11. Drone 8th'
12. Viola di gamba 8th'
13. Aeoline 8th'
14th Vox coelestis 8th'
15th Flauto traverso 4 ′
16. Flautino 2 ′
17th Sesquialter II 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
18th Trumpet 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
19th Violon 16 ′
20th Sub-bass 16 ′
Echo bass 16 ′ (weakened wind)
21st Principal 8th'
22nd trombone 16 ′
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P,
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I
    • Super octave coupling: II / I
  • Playing aids : 1 free combination, piano, forte, tutti, tongue down, crescendo roller

Local pilgrimage site "Bildchen"

  • Beckingen, "little picture" in the Beckinger Forest

  • Inner chapel with roof

  • Miraculous image

According to oral tradition, the so-called “little picture” in the Beckinger Forest was erected in the Beckinger Forest in 1813 by a surviving participant in the Napoleonic Russian campaign of 1812 . After the wayside shrine fell victim to vandalism after the First World War, the Beckingen technician Johann Jungmann rebuilt it in 1926 at his own expense. The picture was decorated with stained glass windows on the occasion of the Marian Year in 1954. In the years 1956/1957 a glass hall for prayers was built above the wayside shrine, which was destroyed during the hurricane Wiebke in the night of February 28th to March 1st, 1990. A few days later, unknown perpetrators smashed the image of Mary that had been spared by the storm. After donations of money and material were received from the population, a new chapel was built over the restored picture, which was inaugurated on August 15, 2015, on the feast of the Assumption of Mary . In February 2011, the Bildchen was expanded to include a way of the cross.

literature

  • Amt Beckingen (Ed.): 150 years of Amt Beckingen, The history of the office and its communities, Beckingen 1966.
  • H. Brunner, Caspary H., Reitzenstein, A. v., Stich F .: Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland, Art Monuments and Museums, Reclams Art Guide Germany, Vol. 6, 8th Edition, Stuttgart 1990, p. 38.
  • The Catholic Saarland, Heimat und Kirche, Ed .: L. Sudbrack and A. Jakob, Volume II / III, Saarbrücken 1954, p. 62.
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland, edited by Hans Caspary u. a., 2nd edition, Munich / Berlin 1984, p. 83.
  • Roman Fixemer: On the history of the new Gothic church in Beckingen, A review of the handwritten records of Pastors Franz Xaver Leidinger and Matthias Flesch about the building history of the Catholic parish church of Beckingen St. Johannes and Paulus from 1855 to 1924, commented, supplemented and continued up to the year 2007, ed. by the Catholic parish Beckingen St. Johannes and Paulus, Merzig 2008.
  • Roman Fixemer u. Manfred Jacobs: Festschrift for the anniversary year 2013, 150 years of the parish church of St. John and Paulus, 100 years of the Klais organ, 150 years of the "Cäcilia" church choir, 100 years of the Marzellus Kindergarten, 200 years of Beckinger Bildchen, ed. from the Catholic parish of St. Johannes and Paulus Beckingen, Beckingen 2013.
  • Handbook of the Diocese of Trier, 20th edition, Trier 1952, p. 563.
  • Christiane Henrich, Monika Silvanus, Martin Uhrhan, Volkmar Schommer: Beckingen in the course of time, a representation of the past and present of the Beckingen community and its districts, ed. from the community of Beckingen, Beckingen 1991.
  • 100 years of the parish church of St. Johannes and Paulus Beckingen, 1963, Merzig 1963.
  • Wolfgang Jakobs: The history of the community and parish and the Deutschherren-Komturei Beckingen, Trier 1969.
  • Church choir St. Johannes and Paulus (ed.): Festschrift for the anniversary year 1988, Beckingen 1988.
  • Philipp de Lorenzi: Contributions to the history of all parishes in the Diocese of Trier, Trier 1887, pp. 367–369.
  • Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 198–199 and p. 424, 610.
  • Hermann Niederkorn: The story of Beckingen, published on the occasion of the local festival of the Beckingen culture and homeland association from October 6th - 8th, 1951, Beckingen 1951.
  • Franz Ronig: The Church of the 19th Century in the Diocese of Trier, in: Art of the 19th Century in the Rhineland, Vol. I, Düsseldorf 1980, p. 238.
  • Rudolf Saam: Contribution to the building history of neo-Gothic churches on the Saar. On the life and work of the master builder Carl Friedrich Müller , Saarbrücker Hefte, issue 48, pp. 17–51, Saarbrücken 1978.
  • Willi Weyres / Albrecht Mann: Handbook on Rhenish Architecture of the 19th Century (1800–1880), Cologne 1968, p. 149.

Web links

Commons : St. John and Paul  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vera Schauber and Hanns Michael Schindler: Article "Johannes und Paulus von Rom", in: Heilige und Namenpatrone im Jahreslauf, Augsburg 1998, pp. 316–317.
  2. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list of the Merzig-Wadern district (PDF; 320 kB), accessed on September 20, 2012
  3. ↑ a b c d e Information on the parish church of St. Johannes and Paulus Beckingen at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on March 25, 2014.
  4. ↑ Roman Fixemer: On the history of the new Gothic church in Beckingen, A review of the handwritten records of Pastors Franz Xaver Leidinger and Matthias Flesch on the building history of the Catholic parish church Beckingen St. Johannes and Paulus from 1855 to 1924, commented, supplemented and continued until Years 2007, ed. from the Catholic parish Beckingen St. Johannes and Paulus, Merzig 2008, p. 284.
  5. ↑ Martin Uhrhan: The history of the German order commander Beckingen, in: Christiane Henrich, Monika Silvanus, Martin Uhrhan, Volkmar Schommer: Beckingen in the course of time, a representation of the past and present of the Beckingen community and its community districts, ed. from the community of Beckingen, Beckingen 1991, pp. 106-110.
  6. ↑ Roman Fixemer: On the history of the new Gothic church in Beckingen, A processing of the handwritten records of Pastors Franz Xaver Leidinger and Matthias Flesch on the building history of the Catholic parish church Beckingen St. Johannes and Paulus from 1855 to 1924, commented, supplemented and continued until Years 2007, ed. from the Catholic Church Community Beckingen St. Johannes and Paulus, Merzig 2008, pp. 284–289.
  7. ↑ Roman Fixemer: On the history of the new Gothic church in Beckingen, A processing of the handwritten records of Pastors Franz Xaver Leidinger and Matthias Flesch on the building history of the Catholic parish church Beckingen St. Johannes and Paulus from 1855 to 1924, commented, supplemented and continued until Years 2007, ed. from the Catholic parish Beckingen St. Johannes and Paulus, Merzig 2008, p. 27ff.
  8. ↑ Vogdt and Müller's plans are in the Catholic parish archives of Beckingen and in the archives of the Diocese of Trier, Dept. 70, No. 294.
  9. ↑ The inscription in the church incorrectly states August 30, 1865. See: Roman Fixemer: On the history of the new Gothic church in Beckingen, A review of the handwritten records of Pastors Franz Xaver Leidinger and Matthias Flesch on the building history of the Catholic parish church of Beckingen St. Johannes and Paulus from 1855 to 1924, commented, supplemented and continued until for the year 2007, ed. from the Catholic Church Community Beckingen St. Johannes and Paulus, Merzig 2008, pages 208–217.
  10. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacral Buildings of Classicism and Historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 198–199 and p. 424, 610.
  11. ↑ a b c d e parish church of St. Johannes and Paulus reopened On: cms.bistum-trier.de, accessed on September 20, 2012
  12. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacral Buildings of Classicism and Historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 198–199 and p. 424, 610.
  13. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacral Buildings of Classicism and Historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 198–199 and p. 424, 610.
  14. ↑ The second central nave keystone, seen from the tower entrance, also names the construction period 1861–1863.
  15. ↑ Romance on pipes: The parish church of St. Johannes and Paulus in Beckingen and their Klais organ  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Podcast)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ardmediathek.de  
  16. ↑ Roman Fixemer: On the history of the new Gothic church in Beckingen, A processing of the handwritten records of Pastors Franz Xaver Leidinger and Matthias Flesch on the building history of the Catholic parish church Beckingen St. Johannes and Paulus from 1855 to 1924, commented, supplemented and continued until Years 2007, ed. from the Catholic Church Community Beckingen St. Johannes and Paulus, Merzig 2008, pp. 416–417.
  17. ↑ Opus list (PDF; 335 kB) at: www.klais.de, accessed on September 20, 2012
  18. ↑ Information about the organ at: www.organindex.de, accessed on May 4, 2013
  19. ↑ Roman Fixemer u. Manfred Jacobs: Festschrift for the anniversary year 2013, 150 years of the parish church of St. Johannes and Paulus, 100 years of the Klais organ, 150 years of the “Cäcilia” church choir, 100 years of the Marzellus Kindergarten, 200 years of Beckinger Bildchen, ed. from the Catholic parish of St. Johannes and Paulus Beckingen, Beckingen 2013, pp. 119–127.

Coordinates: 49 ° 23 ′ 37.9 "  N , 6 ° 41 ′ 43.8"  E