St. Katharina (scouring)

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Exterior of the church

The Catholic Church of St. Katharina is the neo-baroque village church of Scheuert in Saarland. Today it belongs to the deanery of St. Wendel and the diocese of Trier .

history

Old parish church (built 1729)
Interior of the old parish church

There are documents in which Schänen is mentioned as a pastor as early as the 14th and 15th centuries. In contrast to the neighboring towns of Lindscheid and Niederhofen , the parish of Schänen never belonged to the Duke of Lorraine, but was only obliged to pay to the Abbey of St. Mauritius Tholey until 1500 .

At the beginning of the 17th century, the monks of Tholey Abbey took over the church service in Scheuert. In 1729, under Abbot Casparius, a simple baroque building was built as a church. From 1739 on, Schänen belonged to the deanery of Wadrill and the diocese of Trier. In 1784 the places Niederhofen and Lindscheid from the parish Thalexweiler were added to Scheuert.

As early as 1900, the old rectory with its stable and barn had to be demolished and replaced with a new one. In 1910 the parish wanted to build a new church. Pastor Johannes Tressel wrote a letter to the Episcopal General Vicariate in Trier in 1911, in which he complained about the structural condition of the church and also mentioned the spatial restriction due to the increased number of members of the community (approx. 1150 members in 1902). The year before, he had commissioned the Mainz cathedral builder Ludwig Becker to plan a new church. Becker and his colleague Anton Falkowski planned an elaborate neo-baroque church. But the plan was rejected by the Vicar General because it was too complex and did not correspond to the “character of a village church”.

The new church was built in the years 1912 to 1916. Side altars, stations of the cross, the baptismal font and the statues of Saints Mauritius, Wendelinus and Barbara were taken from the old church. After the bells had to be sacrificed in the First World War for the production of war material, the tower was given a new ring with three bells in October 1922. In 1942 these were again confiscated. In 1935, the furnishings were added during a restoration and the neo-baroque building was redesigned.

The church survived the Second World War largely unscathed. It was not until April 1945 that the building came under artillery fire from the Americans, when two shells struck. The vault on the west side was badly damaged, the roof over the chancel collapsed and the church tower was damaged. After a thorough renovation of the roof, the interior was redeveloped in 1957, although the original painting was deviated significantly and the rich gold surfaces were partially painted over. In addition, the ornate lamps were replaced by simple balloon lights. When the church council decided in 1978 to design the choir space according to the requirements of the Second Vatican Council , the interior was also restored to its old splendor. At the end of 1985, the church received its present-day celebration altar.

architecture

inside view

The basilica has a richly decorated barrel vault in the central nave and the transept. The retracted choir with a semicircular finish was painted gold. The organ is enthroned over a curved gallery with a rounded bulge. A 46 m high tower with a square floor plan was placed next to the nave, which is located next to the main portal on the west side of the building. The main portal made of yellow sandstone on the southern gable side was elaborately designed in the Baroque style. The windows are decorated with a sandstone reveal and an elaborate roofing.

Furnishing

In the center of the choir is the marble high altar in neo-baroque style. The large altarpiece shows the church patroness Catherine of Alexandria in a visionary encounter with the baby Jesus. It comes from the Munich painter Franz Michael Ronge . To the left and right of it are the wooden statues of Peter and Paul between columns. The altar structure is crowned with a Mother of God flanked by angels over whom the Holy Spirit hovers in the form of a dove.

The two baroque side altars are from the previous church from 1729. On one side you can see the Virgin Mary, on the other St. Joseph. In his altar is a bronze plate with the Holy Sepulcher, in which the body of Christ is placed on the cross during the Good Friday procession.

The elaborately designed sound cover of the pulpit has a figure of St. John the Baptist crowned. The foundation stone has been laid under the pulpit.

The stained glass windows mainly show saints like Wendelin , Aloisius von Gonzaga , St. Anna and St. Nepomuk . A scene above the main portal shows the Good Shepherd . The two glass windows in the gables of the transept deal with childhood and youth.

organ

organ

In 1920 the Bonn company Johannes Klais built an organ with four registers . The instrument was only partially expanded and was later to be expanded to nine registers, but was never expanded. In 1955 the previous organ was expanded and expanded by the company Haerpfer & Erman / Boulay ( Lorraine ) according to their own arrangements. During a later restoration, the original vox céleste of the swellwork was replaced by a reed flute. Today the romantic Haerpfer organ has 17 registers, divided into two manuals and a pedal . The actions are pneumatic. The instrument has the following disposition :

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Montre 8th'
2. Flûte Harmonique 8th'
3. Salicional 8th'
4th Prestant 4 ′
5. Mixture III
II Swell C – g 3
6th Violin principal 8th'
7th Dulciana 8th'
8th. Lovely covered 8th'
9. Principal 4 ′
10. Reed flute 4 ′
11. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
12. octave 2 ′
13. Zymbel III
14th Trumpet 8th'
Pedal C – d 1
15th Sub bass 16 ′
16. Octave bass 8th'
Bass flute 8th'
17th Choral bass 4 ′
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I
    • Super octave coupling: II / I
  • Playing aids : piano, forte, tutti, tongues off

Annotation:

  1. ↑ Transmission from No. 2

literature

  • Gertrud P. Fels, Wolfgang Fels: Franz Michael Ronge (1853–1925), a rediscovered painter of late ecclesiastical history. In: Das Münster, magazine for Christian art and art history, 1, 2019, 72nd year, Regensburg 2019, pp. 3–24, here pp. 17, 21.
  • Arno J. Graf: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the consecration of the parish church of St. Katharina. Parish of St. Katharina, Schänen 2016.
  • Erwin Scholl: St. Katharina in Schünsch, the church of the Bohnental. Published by the Historical Association of Scheuert, 2004.
  • Erwin Scholl: St. Katharina Schänen - the church in the Bohnental. Parish of St. Katharina Schünsch, Schänen [approx. 2009].

Web links

Commons : St. Katharina  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the detailed history of the parish church , kirche-am-schaumberg.de, accessed on September 1, 2016
  2. ↑ Gertrud P. Fels, Wolfgang Fels: Franz Michael Ronge (1853–1925), a rediscovered painter of late ecclesiastical history. In: Das Münster, magazine for Christian art and art history, 1, 2019, 72nd year, Regensburg 2019, pp. 3–24, here p. 17.
  3. ↑ The organ on OrganIndex

Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '7.2 "  N , 6 ° 56" 32.8 "  E