St. Laurentius (Saarburg)
| St. Laurentius parish church Saarburg | |
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| address | 08294 Saarburg Kunohof 21-27, 54439 Saarburg |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| local community | Saarburg parish |
| Current usage | Parish church; Cultural place |
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| start of building | 1854 |
| Renovations and renovations | 1946-1949 |
| style | Neo-Gothic |
The St. Laurentius Church is a Roman Catholic parish church dedicated to St. Laurentius in Saarburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, in the Trier-Saarburg district . It replaced the Holy Cross Chapel built here in the 13th century . The church building is a cultural monument and, together with Saarburg Castle , forms one of the main accents of the city skyline.
history
Predecessor building
The Chapel of the Holy Cross , which belonged to the mother church of St. Lambertus near Saarburg, has been located in the same place since the 13th century (first mentioned in a document in 1368) . Archbishop Kuno II von Falkenstein granted this chapel the right of baptism in 1370 , which raised it to the rank of parish church . The parish did not employ its own pastor for the church until 1426, when the citizens of Saarburg founded the early mass.
A second tower was added to the originally existing church tower in 1563 on the south side. In order to cope with the influx of believers, further extensions and alterations were gradually made, so that in the middle of the 17th century three church naves and two wing structures were mentioned in the annals. This constant expansion led to the fact that the church was consecrated as a new church in 1658 by Trier Auxiliary Bishop Johannes Petrus Verhorst . She received the patronage of St. Lawrence. The following two hundred years resulted in such severe structural damage that repairs were no longer possible. The community decided to demolish and build a new building at the same location.
New church building
The St. Laurentius Church was built in the neo-Gothic style between 1854 and 1856 according to plans by the architect Christoph Wilhelm Schmidt from Trier . The new church now has a north-south orientation, i.e. perpendicular to the previous church. The two-helm double tower remained standing and was integrated into the new building. In June 1855 the Archbishop of Trier Wilhelm Arnoldi consecrated the church .
When a bomb was dropped on the nearby Saar Bridge on December 23, 1944 during World War II , around 50 percent of the church building was destroyed. The east side aisle , the choir , the tower group and parts of the surrounding wall remained.
The reconstruction took place between 1946 and 1949 in a simplified form according to plans by the Trier architect Otto Vogel .
In 1962 the church building received an additional (fourth) bell . Also in the 1960s, the artist Eugen Keller from Höhr-Grenzhausen partially refurbished the interior of the church with modern elements.
architecture
Church building
The neo-Gothic church building, which draws on styles from the 13th century, is a monumental slate quarry stone building. On the river side, the substructure of the church, which is framed by retaining walls and supported by buttresses and an arch construction , forms a mighty substructure , which also underlines the urban dominance of the complex. The closed, massive shape with a slate roof with dormer windows was given to the church building on the occasion of the reconstruction in 1947. Before that, the church building together with the tower group of the previous church had a historically differentiated form with two gabled transverse arms and hipped dwarf houses on the side aisles.
The church is designed as a three-aisled hall church with a three-sided choir in the north-east and a porch in the south-west. Structuring elements on the exterior are the aisles at the north-east and south-west ends of the nave, originally emphasized by risalites and slightly widened . During the reconstruction, the roof turret above the transept was assigned to the yoke of the vestibule.
In the tympanum above the main column portal, the crucifixion of Jesus is depicted in plastic and on the portal center post there is a sculpture of Our Lady .
Steeple
The tower , made of sandstone rubble and square at the corners, is the oldest part of the church. It was doubled into a facade tower in 1563 and raised in 1854 by a fourth floor in the style of the early Gothic . In addition, the tower received the distinctive twin pyramid helmet . A baroque portal from 1780 is embedded in the extension of the tower.
Apart from the western outer wall between the tower and the entrance yoke, which received modern, style-interpreting, coupled vertical accents during the reconstruction, the original building from the 19th century, which has a rich design in the stone carvings , has been preserved. The neo-Gothic components that still exist include the eastern outer wall facing the Saar and the portal front.
Furnishing
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Altar, baptism, window
Valuable parts of the furnishings of the previous church have been preserved. Among them are originally from the 1575 and 1983 restored octagonal Renaissance - baptismal font and two of four existing epitaphs in the eastern chapel space. Other appliances are four figures in the Rococo style , the Holy Anna , Andrew , Francis Xavier and St. John of Nepomuk represent, and form a side altar in the eastern aisle. The figures flank an oil painting of the Descent from the Cross by Louis Counet (1652–1721) from 1706. The stained glass windows in the choir from the time the neo-Gothic church was built, donated by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV in 1855 and made in Berlin , have been preserved.
See also: Madonna and Child (Saarburg)
Naves, choir, gallery
The choir , the eastern side aisle and the entrance yoke above the ribbed vault on bundle pillars are still in their original state. The western row of round pillars supporting a timber-framed wall from Saarburg's building tradition and separating the main nave and the western aisle with their flat beam ceilings are due to the reconstruction. The organ is installed on the gallery above the southern entrance side. The curved wooden balustrade is decorated with portraits of church figures playing music between the craftsmen's coats of arms.
organ
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In the previous church there was a used organ that was purchased in 1739 and after almost forty years (1777) was replaced by a two-manual instrument made by the Trier organ builder Carl Caspar Molitor . The Saarburger dean Biunda sold it together with the oak parapet for the gallery in 1857 after the complete renovation of the church building to the parish church of the Holy Trinity in Freudenburg for 300 thalers.
The organ for the new church came from the workshop of Ludwig Hünd from Linz , cost 1,450 thalers and was inaugurated in 1866. In 1905 the parish had a new organ installed by the Hock company from Saarlouis . It is very likely that some parts of the Hünd organ were reused. The Hock organ suffered a total loss when the bomb was dropped in 1944. After the reconstruction of the church began in 1947, the Oberlinger company from Windesheim delivered a new organ in 1949, which was in service until the end of 2003.
The instrument, installed in 2004, was made in the Weimbs organ workshop in Hellenthal . It cost the parish around 500,000 euros to purchase . The high shape of the organ reflects the Gothic tradition of the church, the blue cloth behind the pipes the Saar.
The slider chests -Orgel has 27 registers , spread over two manuals and pedal . The playing and stop action is mechanical.
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The special feature of the Saarburg organ is the integrated carillon over two octaves (24 bells), largely cast in the Saarburg bell foundry Mabilon . The glockenspiel can be played from both manuals and / or the pedal.
Pulpit, seating and more
The oldest piece of equipment is the "grape madonna" (a mother of God with a child in her arms who holds a bunch of grapes in her hands) from the 15th century. Historically preserved but hardly legible is the epitaph of Johann von Warsberg , who found his final resting place in the crypt of the church. In addition, the epitaphs of the bailiff Philipp von Homburg († 1779) can be seen at the baptistery.
Peal
In the parish church there are three bronze bells that were cast by Urbanus Mabilon for the previous church in 1772. They survived the renovations and the war destruction and are located in the church tower. The ringing was supplemented by another bell in 1962, which was made again in the Mabilon bell foundry .
In the neighborhood
On the church forecourt, the former cemetery , on the west side of the building there is a larger than life sandstone figure of the church patron St. Laurentius, which originally crowned the gable of the main portal. (Another figure of St. Lawrence, which dates from 1670 and is a cultural monument, adorns the house of the former bell foundry at 118 Staden Street.)
Directly at the church tower is a cast iron grave stele for Alexander Franz Freiherr von Warsberg with the family coat of arms on top, two more cast iron grave crosses of the pastor family Willmowsky are on the outer wall of the baptistery.
The rectory following the church, a half-timbered building, was built at the same time as the church building, i.e. 1855/1856. It is also a cultural monument and has been well restored.
From the life of the parish
The St. Laurentius congregation maintains a church choir and runs a day-care center . In addition to church services, concerts are also regularly held in the church. The parish hall is also used for cultural events.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984.
- Festschrift for the organ consecration on September 19, 2004, published by the Catholic Parish Office of St. Laurentius
Web links
- Parish community Saarburg
- Tower view with the main bell of the Catholic parish church St. Laurentius in Saarburg
References and comments
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - District of Trier-Saarburg. Mainz 2020, p. 56 (PDF; 6.5 MB).
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Saarburg: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Laurentius On: region-trier.cms.rdts.de, accessed on April 23, 2014
- ↑ St. Laurentius at Tourist-Information Saar-Obermosel , accessed on April 26, 2014
- ↑ a b c d Explanation board of the home club Saarstrand, 1980
- ^ Chronicle of the Saarburg fire brigade up to the 175th anniversary (PDF; p. 3); Retrieved April 29, 2014.
- ↑ organs in Lorraine on trierer-orgelpunkt.de; Retrieved April 29, 2014.
- ^ The organ of the parish church St. Laurentius in Saarburg on orgel-information.de; accessed on March 31, 2016.
- ↑ a b Weimbs organ. Saarburg Church Choir, accessed on July 18, 2017 .
- ↑ The St. Laurentius Church is like his living room on volksfreund.de; Retrieved April 26, 2014.
- ^ Organ of the Catholic parish church St. Laurentius in Saarburg On: organindex.de, accessed on April 23, 2014.
- ↑ Entry on the statue of Saint Laurentius (here with details on Saint Laurentius) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on March 1, 2016.
- ^ Entry on Catholic rectory (Saarburg) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on March 1, 2016.
- ↑ Information on the day care center and church choir taken from the parish letters from 2013/2014.
- ↑ People who need us on worldpress.com; Retrieved April 29, 2014
Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '26.6 " N , 6 ° 33' 4.8" E