St. Josef (Riegelsberg)
The Church of St. Josef is a Roman Catholic parish and pilgrimage church in Riegelsberg , Saarland , Saarbrücken regional association . It bears the patronage of St. Joseph .
history
In 1868, the construction of a Catholic church began in Güchenbach, today part of the town of Riegelsberg, without a master builder and building permit , which continued until 1880.
In 1887 the parish of St. Josef Güchenbach was founded for the towns of Güchenbach, Hilschbach and Überhofen, which were merged to form Riegelsberg in 1939, and the church was elevated to the status of a parish church.
From 1887 to 1888, under the direction of the building contractor Schultheis ( Saarbrücken ), the church was expanded by adding a transept and a choir to the nave . In 1892/93 the tower was rebuilt , for which the architect Baurat Neufang (Saarbrücken) was responsible.
In 1949 the church was badly damaged by a fire that caused the ceiling vaults and the roof structure to collapse. The reconstruction took place from 1950 to 1951. In the following decades the church was subjected to several restoration and reconstruction measures, whereby the reconstruction measures also took place under the influence of the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council .
In 2011 the St. Elisabeth branch church , consecrated in 1972 and belonging to the parish of St. Josef, was given up. Effective September 1, 2011, the parish of St. Josef was merged with the two parishes of St. Matthias in Riegelsberg and Herz Jesu in Köllerbach to form the Riegelsberg-Köllerbach parish community in the Völklingen deanery .
After four years of renovation work , the church was put back into service on the fourth Advent 2013 as part of a Eucharistic celebration , with the Trier cathedral provost Werner Rössel as the main celebrant. The renovation was divided into three sections, which concerned the church tower, the exterior and the interior. As part of the renovation of the tower and the exterior, the tower and nave received a new roof, and damaged areas on the sandstone of the facade were repaired. Mainly cleaning and painting work took place inside the church. The lighting , heating and sound systems were also modernized . Furthermore, all windows were renovated and fitted with protective glazing again. The pedestals under the pews have also been redesigned and all altars and furnishings have been renovated. During the renovation work, the organ was expanded and also renovated. The cost of the renovation was 900,000 euros.
Pilgrimage church
The parish church of St. Josef has also been a pilgrimage church since 1946. The aim of the pilgrimage is a copy of the Black Madonna von Altötting . It came to Riegelsberg shortly after the Second World War and was brought with them by parishioners who had been evacuated to Altötting during the war, and was a gift from the then administrator and monastery dean of the Altötting Gnadenkapelle Monsignore Adalbert Vogl.
The statue was consecrated by Passau Bishop Simon Konrad Landersdorfer on the Assumption of Mary in 1945 and touched on the original three times and then handed over to Elisabeth Friedrich, who was evacuated to Altötting, together with a picture and a relic of holy brother Konrad , who brought it to Riegelsberg. The gift was connected with the wish to spread the veneration of Mary in Riegelsberg and to develop a pilgrimage there. The solemn installation of the statue took place on September 2, 1945 by Capuchin Father Edgar from Altötting with a large participation of the population . The solemn crowning of the miraculous image was carried out by the Trier bishop Franz Rudolf Bornewasser on the Assumption of Mary in 1946. The crown for this was donated by the treasure chamber of the Altöttinger Gnadenkapelle as well as by members of the administrator Vogl, who also donated a scepter and a splendid cloak, which are used for decoration on festive occasions. Every year since then, there has been a festival and pilgrimage week in the week from August 15th, the Feast of the Assumption , to August 22nd.
The Black Madonna is placed in the Marian altar of the church all year round. The statue is depicted on one of three pilgrim stamps on the Köllertal loop of the Way of St. James .
Architecture and equipment
The church building can be divided into three elements. The church tower, the nave and the transept with choir. While the nave has a simple design, the tower, transept and choir appear richer, which can, among other things, change a. showing through pilaster strips and buttresses . The church tower has a pointed helmet , which is surrounded by four smaller pointed helmets on the corners of the tower. The windows of the church are arched windows .
The church is equipped with two altars from the Johann Mettler art workshop ( Morbach ): the Marienaltar, a winged altar with a faithful wood-carved image of Our Lady of Altötting from 1945, as well as 4 wooden images on each wing from the life of our holy brother Konrad, and the Joseph Altar, also a winged altar with scenes from the life of St. Joseph carved out of wood, probably made by the sculptor Ernst Hoffmann ( Sulzbach ). The crucifixion group in the chancel, which was housed in the side aisle in the 1990s , as well as 50 benches from 1936, whose bench cheeks show carved relief portraits of saints, also comes from the Johann Mettler art workshop .
The 14 stations of the cross were created by Neureuther (southern Germany) in 1857 and restored in 1992 by restorer Manfred Schöndorf ( Ottweiler ).
Further items of equipment are the baptismal font , made by the company Kiefer & Perrot (Trier), the sculptures by the Josefsgruppe from 1920, as well as two icons that the icon writer Yvonne Münz (Riegelsberg) created in 1996. The windows of the church were made by Tristan Ruhlmann ( Hagenau ) in 1950/51 . A window in the chancel has survived from the time before the church fire in 1949.
organ
The organ of the church was built in 1950 by the Lorraine organ builder Haerpfer & Erman ( Boulay ). In 2013/14 the instrument was renovated by Hugo Mayer Orgelbau ( Heusweiler ) and expanded and voiced in the process. The cone store instrument has 34 (36) registers , divided into 3 manuals and pedal . The game and stop action is electro-pneumatic. The disposition is as follows:
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Super octave coupling: III / P
- Playing aids : 2 free combinations, 2 free pedal combinations, tutti, tongues down, mixtures down, everything down, crescendo kick, setter system, glockenspiel
literature
- Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland . Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 3-923877-40-4 .
- Werner Zimmer: The Saarland sculptor Ernst Hoffmann (1905 - 1942), forgotten and rediscovered
Web links
- Literature on St. Josef (Riegelsberg) in the Saarland Bibliography
- Parish community Riegelsberg-Köllerbach
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pilgrimage sites and sites in the Diocese of Trier (PDF) at: cms.bistum-trier.de, accessed on March 15, 2014
- ↑ a b c "Black Madonna" in Riegelsberg, Wallfahrtskirche St. Josef On: cms.stjosef-riegelsberg.de, accessed on March 15, 2014
- ↑ a b c d e f Information on the parish church of St. Josef Riegelsberg at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on March 15, 2014
- ↑ a b c d e Michael Emmerich: St. Josef shines in new splendor In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , December 20, 2013. Retrieved on March 15, 2014.
- ↑ Establishment of the parish community Riegelsberg-Köllerbach in the deanery Völklingen ( Memento from March 15, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) On: cms.bistum-trier.de, accessed on March 15, 2014
- ↑ Parish community Riegelsberg-Köllerbach ( Memento from March 15, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) On: cms.stjosef-riegelsberg.de, accessed on March 15, 2014
- ↑ Beatrix Hoffmann: The parish has its home again, Riegelsberg parish church St. Josef reopened with high mass on the fourth Advent . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , December 23, 2013. Accessed March 15, 2014.
- ↑ A little detour on the road to Santiago ... Black Madonna in the Church of St. Joseph ( Memento from February 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) On: www.sr-online.de, accessed on March 15, 2014
- ↑ The organ of the parish church St. Josef in Riegelsberg On: www.organindex.de, accessed on March 15, 2014
Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 29.4 " N , 6 ° 56 ′ 36" E