St. Josef (Elm-Derlen)

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The Catholic parish church of St. Josef in Elm-Derlen
View inside the church
View from the chancel to the organ gallery

The Church of St. Josef is a Roman Catholic church in Derlen in the Saarland , a district of Elm , which in turn is a district of the municipality of Schwalbach in the Saarlouis district . Saint Joseph is the church patron . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.

history

The church was built between 1900 and 1904 according to plans by the architect Peter Marx ( Trier ).

After destruction in World War II , reconstruction and restoration measures were carried out from 1945 to 1951 .

The church was closed for 11 months for renovation work inside the church and on March 19, 2019, the name day of Saint Joseph, as part of a pontifical ministry by Bishop Dr. Stephan Ackermann reopened.

Architecture and equipment

The church building was built in the neo-Gothic style. The basic architectural form of the church is a three-aisled hall church . Since the central nave rises a little higher than the two aisles , the church building can also be described as a staggered hall or a stepped hall . A transept adjoins the nave , followed by a five-sided choir with a polygonal finish. As a floor plan so the form of results without the side aisles Latin cross .

Architect and church window painter György Lehoczky ( Saarbrücken ) designed three windows in 1952 , which were expanded in the early 1970s, but reinstalled in 1990.
Further items of equipment are three richly designed altars ( high altar , two side altars), various figures of saints , an altar cross , a baptismal font , Apostle candlesticks , as well as the stations of the Cross in the form of relief images. A chapel has been set up on the first floor of the church tower and can be reached via the spiral staircase in the tower.

In the square between the rectory and the church there is a statue of Joseph, which is the work of an artist from the Eifel .

organ

As part of the last renovation work, the organ , which was built in 1971 by the organ building company Hugo Mayer ( Heusweiler ), was sold and replaced by a digital organ from the G. Kisselbach company.

Bells

In 1924 the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast three bronze bells for St. Josef in Elm-Derlen. The bells had the chimes: e '- g' - a '. The two larger bells were melted down during World War II. The a'-bell still exists today. In 1954, the Saarlouis 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 new bronze bells with the chimes for St. Josef : e 'and g' and renewed the three-part bell. The bells have the following diameters: 1219 mm, 1023 mm, 930 mm. They weigh: 1117 kg, 659 kg, 500 kg.

literature

  • Parish Sankt Josef <Elm, Saar> (Hrsg.): Parish church Elm St. Josef 75 years . Elm 1975
  • The Lehoczky window in the choir of the parish church "St. Josef" Derlen . Schwalbach 1990
  • Old churches in new splendor [100]: Parish church of St. Josef in Schwalbach-Elm-Derlen . 1995
  • György Lehoczky working group (ed.): György Lehoczky, 1901-1979 . St. Johann GmbH, Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken 2010, ISBN 978-3-938070-49-9 , p. 176 ( galerie-st-johann.de [accessed on September 7, 2012]).

Web links

Commons : St. Josef (Elm-Derlen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list of the Saarlouis district (PDF; 347 kB), accessed on June 10, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c d Information on the parish church of St. Josef at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on July 10, 2013
  3. ↑ Traudl Brenner: Maria knits in the church window - The Church of St. Josef in Derlen . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , 3./4. May 2014.
  4. ↑ St. Josef parish church reopened. Accessed June 11, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ Reopening of the Church of St. Joseph. In: bistum-speyer.de. March 24, 2019, accessed July 20, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 87 to 95, 525, 567 .
  7. ↑ 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 pp. 105 to 112, 487, 517 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 28.5 ″  N , 6 ° 50 ′ 19 ″  E