St. Laurentius (Heiligenwald)
The Church of St. Laurentius is a Roman Catholic parish church in Heiligenwald , a district of the Saarland community of Schiffweiler , district of Neunkirchen . The church patron is St. Lawrence of Rome . In the list of monuments of the Saarland the church building is a single monument listed.
history
Before the Laurentius Church was built, the Catholics in Heiligenwald had been using the Protestant prayer room since 1868 . In the years 1886 to 1887 an emergency church was built according to plans by the architect Johann Heinrich Kastenholz ( Hanover ), carried out by the building contractor Nikolaus Zimmer (Heiligenwald).
After the building permit was granted by the French mining authorities with the condition that the foundations had to be secured against the mountains, the church was rebuilt from 1927 to 1928. The plans for this came from the architect Peter Marx ( Trier ). Construction contractor Johann Witt (Schiffweiler) was responsible for the execution. In 1955 the first restoration and conversion work was carried out. The latter concerned the chancel , in which balcony-like wall arcades were removed in the apse . From 1979 to 1981, further restoration and conversion work was carried out in the chancel, led by the architect Rudolf Kirsch.
At the end of 2012 the bell cage and bell room in the front tower were renovated.
Church building
Building description
An open vestibule with three pointed arches forms the main entrance to the church. A crucifixion group is placed in the middle of the vestibule . Behind it rises the approximately 17 meter high westwork-like front tower. There are two octagonal structures on the tower with a roof saddle in between. The main building of the church adjoins the front tower , which is divided into a central nave and two narrow aisles . The left aisle is extended to a small transept , which houses a baptistery with a baptismal font . The straight-lined choir adjoins the central nave . On the exterior, the choir is marked by a roof turret and a tower with a helmet .
Furnishing
In the chancel there is a crucifixion group created in 1955 by the sculptor Maximilian Wineberger ( Morbach ), which consists of the cross with a corpus and a group of the evangelist Johannes , Maria, the mother of Jesus , and St. Lawrence with his characteristic symbol, the torture grate . At the beginning of the 1980s, the Mettler ( St. Wendel ) company placed the group that had previously been placed halfway up the choir room on the floor. By sculptor Wilhelm Hahn (Trier) derived altar , made of local sandstone , the ambo , the priest's seat, the baptismal font and the St. Barbara - figure from linden wood at the site of the former pulpit . For the crypt , glass artist Monika Kirsch designed colorful, child-friendly church windows .
Other items of equipment in the church are the crucifixion group in the middle above the vestibule, the holy water basin at the entrance to the nave , which used to be a baptismal font, and 11 three-part windows in the main nave measuring 300 × 180 cm and 12 arched double windows measuring 90 × 50 cm.
The Pietà to the left of the entrance, the Sacred Heart statue to the right of the entrance and the tabernacle in the apse behind the altar still come from the emergency church .
organ
The predecessor of today's organ was an instrument built in 1923 by the organ building workshop Klais ( Bonn ), which was installed in 1943 by the Sebald ( Trier ) company in Heiligenwald and was previously located in the St. Maximin Church in Trier.
Today's organ was built in 1956 by the organ building company Hugo Mayer (Brebach) using the Klais organ . In 1980 the organ was expanded by a register and in 1991 a new intonation. The Kegelladen instrument has 39 registers, divided into 3 manuals and pedal . The game and stop action is electro-pneumatic. The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Playing aids : 2 free combinations, 2 free pedal combinations, tutti, individual storage for reeds and Bourdon 16 '
literature
- The Catholic Saarland, Heimat und Kirche, Ed .: L. Sudbrack and A. Jakob, Volume IV, Saarbrücken 1955, p. 25.
- Festschrift for the golden jubilee of the parish of Heiligenwald - silver jubilee of the new Laurentiuskirche, Wiebelskirchen 1953.
- Festschrift of the parish "Laurentius" Heiligenwald for the 70th anniversary in 1974, Wemmetsweiler 1974.
- Festschrift 50 years of the parish church of St. Laurentius Heiligenwald, Heiligenwald 1978.
- Kristine Marschall: The Church Buildings of Carl Ferdinand Stumm - Style Choice in the Sign of Socio-Political Ideology ?, in: Journal for the History of the Saar Region, Volume 47, 1999, pp. 302–330.
- Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, p. 247 and p. 481–482.
- Johann Joseph Morper : Catholic Church Buildings on the Saar . Saarbrücken 1935, p. 51f.
- Nikolaus Schmitt: Chronicle of the community of Heiligenwald on the 200th anniversary of the foundation of the town, Neunkirchen 1954, pp. 166–174.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list district Neunkirchen (PDF; 1.3 MB), accessed on May 4, 2013
- ↑ a b c d Information on the parish church of St. Laurentius at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on May 4, 2013
- ^ Schäfer, Bernhard: New shine for the bell room . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , October 2, 2012. Retrieved on May 4, 2013
- ↑ Information inside the parish church of St. Laurentius Heiligenwald
- ↑ a b The organ of the Catholic parish church of St. Laurentius in Heiligenwald On: www.organindex.de, accessed on February 10, 2014
Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '11.9 " N , 7 ° 5' 52.3" E