St. Josef (Wehrden (Saar))

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The parish church of St. Josef in Völklingen-Wehrden
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View inside the church
View to the organ gallery

The St. Josef Church is a Catholic parish church dedicated to St. Joseph of Nazareth in Wehrden , a district of Völklingen in Saarland . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.

history

In 1894 , a church building association was founded in Wehrden, which belonged to the Catholic parish of St. Eligius Völklingen, with the aim of raising funds for the construction of their own church . Between 1897 and 1899 the church was built according to plans by the architect Wilhelm Hector ( Saarbrücken-St. Johann ). On May 9th, 1903 the solemn consecration of the newly built church took place by the then Trier Bishop Michael Felix Korum .

On March 19, 1906, Wehrden was separated from the Völklingen mother parish and raised to the status of an independent parish.

In the years 1945 to 1950 the church was subjected to a restoration . From 1960 to 1965 renovations took place in the chancel . In 1972 the church heating was rebuilt , and in 1982 the staircase in front of the church was renewed. In 1988 the interior of the sacred building was renovated , the figures of saints restored and the chancel expanded. In the years 1998 to 1999 and in 2007 the church was again subjected to restoration work. The latter were carried out by the company Quint ( Riegelsberg ).

The church has had outdoor lighting since 2009 , which was installed as part of the “Light Master Plan”. Andreas Thiel and Peter Schütz from the office for lighting design ( Saarbrücken ) were responsible for the implementation.

Architecture and equipment

The church building was a three-aisled basilica in the style of Gothic Revival built and divided into the tower with spire , the nave and the five-sided polygonal final chorus . The nave itself is subdivided into five bays , the ceilings of which are formed by four-part ribbed vaults .

The church's furnishings include a celebration altar and an ambo in the chancel , which were made from wood in 1965 by the carver Heribert Müller ( Geislautern ) . In the chancel there is also the high altar , a wooden folding altar which , when opened, shows four motifs from the childhood of Jesus with the birth of Christ , Jesus' sacrifice in the temple , the flight to Egypt and the rediscovery. When the two sides are turned down, two Old Testament images can be seen showing motifs from the life of Abraham . When the chancel was redesigned in 2000, the artist Horst Rams and master sculptor Gordon Schnur also included the altar, ambo and tabernacle .

Another item of equipment is the font from 1672, which was in the parish garden until the end of the Second World War and served as a bird bath . It was restored in the course of the restoration from 1945 to 1950 and has been used again as a font since then. Also worth mentioning are eight of terracotta -made figures that after the Second Vatican Council repainted, but were now restored. On the right they show the Saints Aloisius von Gonzaga , John the Baptist , Catherine of Alexandria and Judas Thaddäus , and on the left the Saints Anthony of Padua , Barbara of Nicomedia , Elisabeth of Thuringia and Nicholas of Myra .

In the rear part of the interior of the church, a wood-carved, filigree memorial for the fallen and missing of the First World War is attached to the wall. The side altars and the Way of the Cross , which were plastered over during the Second Vatican Council, were later gradually restored. The nativity scene created in 1979 comes from hobby artist Eduard Schreiner (Wehrden).

organ

The church organ was built in 1995 by Hugo Mayer ( Heusweiler ). The case is a Baroque case from the beginning of the 17th century, which comes from the Trier Cathedral . The abrasive loading -instrument has 22 registers , spread over 2 manuals and pedal . The action mechanism is mechanical, the stop action is electrical. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Bourdon 8th'
4th Octave 4 ′
5. Reed flute 4 ′
6th Forest flute 2 ′
7th Mixture IV-V
8th. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
9. Violin principal 8th'
10. Harmony flute 8th'
11. Salicional 8th'
12. Vox coelestis 8th'
13. Pastoral flute 4 ′
14th Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Principal 2 ′
16. Third flute 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
17th oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
18th Principal 16 ′
19th Sub bass 16 ′
20th Open bass 8th'
21st Choral bass 4 ′
22nd trombone 16 ′

Bells

The first three bells in the church had to be given in for war purposes during the First World War in 1917. In 1922, despite inflation, three new bells could be purchased, but the two largest of them had to be returned for war purposes in 1942 during World War II . In 1954 the church received four new bells.

literature

  • Hans-Berthold Busse: Wilhelm Hector (1855–1918), in: Saarländische Lebensbilder, Vol. 4, Saarbrücken 1989, p. 137.
  • The Catholic Saarland, Heimat und Kirche, Ed .: L. Sudbrack and A. Jakob, Volume I, Saarbrücken 1954, p. 70.
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland, edited by Hans Caspary u. a., 2nd edition, Munich / Berlin 1984, p. 115.
  • Heinrich Kuhn: St. Eligius, history of the parish, commemorative publication on the occasion of the restoration of the St. Eligius Church Völklingen, Völklingen 1973, p. 106.
  • Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 362–363 and p. 602.
  • Werner Weber u. Peter Neumann: Völklingen formerly, old photos from an industrial city in Saarland, Saarbrücken 1981, p. 13.
  • Walter Zimmermann: The art monuments of the Ottweiler and Saarlouis districts, 2nd edition, Saarbrücken 1976, p. 286f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments Mittelstadt Völklingen ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), accessed on August 4, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarland.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e The history of the parish of St. Josef on: www.pg-warndt.de, accessed on August 4, 2014
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Völklingen, Wehrden: Parish Church of St. Josef . On: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on August 4, 2014
  4. ^ District Wehrden • the fishing village on the Saar . Voelklingen im Wandel, accessed on August 4, 2014
  5. ↑ St. Joseph's Church is illuminated at night . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , December 1, 2009, accessed on August 4, 2014
  6. ^ Völklingen / Wehrden, St. Josef . From: organindex.de, accessed on August 4, 2014

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 44.8 "  N , 6 ° 50 ′ 12.6"  E