St. Leodegar (Düppenweiler)

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The Catholic parish church of St. Leodegar in Düppenweiler
Another view of the church

The St. Leodegar Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Düppenweiler , a district of the Beckingen municipality , Merzig-Wadern district , Saarland . The church bears the patronage of St. Bishop Leodegar von Autun and is listed as an individual monument in the Saarland monuments list. The church is assigned to the diocese of Trier . Patronage day is October 2nd .

history

Medieval parish church

The Archbishop of Trier, Albero von Montreuil (term of office: 1132 to 1152), awarded the church of Düppenweiler (Villaris) with all its accessories as an endowment to the newly founded monastery of the Augustinian Canons in Merzig . Archbishop Hillin von Falmagne confirmed this donation in 1153. The property of the parish passed from the Augustinian Canons in 1182 to the Premonstratensians of the Wadgassen Abbey . From this time on, the abbot of Wadgassen exercised the right of collation and received the tithe . In addition, the Wadgasser abbot in Düppenweiler also owned an allodium that was given to him in 1197 by Pope Celestine III. had been confirmed. During the visit to the parish "Dupwyler" in 1569 the abbot of Wadgassen was collator .

Until the Thirty Years' War , the parish of Düppenweiler still had the Valentinus Chapel as a branch in the Oberweiler district, which was then destroyed by the Swedes. Düppenweiler was so badly hit during the war that in 1692 the parish was still administered from Haustadt due to its lack of resources and from Reimsbach in 1706 . The pastor's income consisted of a small tithe and 16 malters of grain and 9 malters of oats, which he obtained from the Wadgassen Abbey.

Baroque new building

The church was found to be good in a report from 1692. A report from 1739 describes it as dilapidated. That is why the predecessor of today's church was built in 1765 according to plans by the monastery architect of Wadgassen Abbey, Johann Heinrich Eckardt, from which the four lower floors of the church tower have been preserved. The baroque building was destroyed together with the rectory in a violent village fire in 1781. The Düppenweiler pastor was probably a secular priest appointed by the Wadgassen Abbey, so not a Premonstratensian monk. The abbey gave the pastor the small tithe of 130 thalers as part of his salary. The Wadgassen Abbey had leased the big tithe for 200 thalers. In the pre-station register of the Wadgassen Abbey of 1787, the collation and decimation rights in Düppenweiler are set for the last time.

Neo-Gothic new building

The present church building for its design from Roden Dating architect Wilhelm Hector ( Saarbrücken-St. Johann was responsible), was built in the years 1897-1900. The consecration by the Trier bishop Michael Felix Korum took place on May 22, 1900.

From 1955 to 1958 the church tower was rebuilt. The pointed helmet was torn down and a new bell room was built, which was placed on the four remaining tower floors of the 18th century church. At the same time as the reconstruction of the tower, the church building also underwent some changes. The tracery window above the portal was bricked up and a chapel was built in the entrance area. The plans for these renovation and expansion measures came from the architect Toni Laub ( Saarwellingen ).

Between 1966 and 1968 the interior of the church was restored and the sanctuary was rebuilt. In addition, new main and side entrances were created and new marble floors were laid. From 1999 to 2000 the interior was restored again.

Architecture and equipment

View inside the church
Ladder to heaven

The church building, built in the neo-Gothic style, was planned with a single nave and a two-bay transept on a Latin cross and continues over the crossing by a bay. The relatively short choir area with choir yoke is strongly drawn in and closes on three sides. The exposed brickwork made of reddish sandstone blocks from which the church is built is striking . The neo-Gothic facade has been undesigned and deprived of verticality since the construction of a modern entrance chapel made of concrete and broken glass. The original neo-Gothic facade window was walled up. The neo-Gothic main portal with a Christ head in the tympanum surrounded by plant motifs is barely visible through the concrete entrance building.

In the wide nave, the ribs of the four-part cross vault are taken up by wall templates. The wide transept is divided into two bays by pillars. The transept arcades with wide intercolumns correspond in height to the wall templates in the ship. In the transept arms, small columns on consoles take up the vault ribs. A star vault spans the crossing. The interior of the church has a centralizing effect due to the compressed shape of the Latin cross plan.

The church has a rich neo-Gothic interior. The font with a base and basin made of sandstone and a lid made of copper, the pulpit , a statue of the Sacred Heart , an Immaculate Conception statue and statues of St. Agnes , St. Aloysius , St. Josef and St. Valentinus. These are all works of the sculptor workshop Hans Steinlein ( Eltville ). The statue of Joseph had been placed in the depot since the 1960s as part of the renovation in the wake of the Second Vatican Council . It was restored in 1999-2000 and put back on the old place.

Church painter August Adolph Potthast ( Wiesbaden ) was responsible for the painting of the church from 1906 to 1907, which was painted over white in the 1960s and then exposed and restored in 1999–2000. The Latin triumphal arch inscription in a Gothic band reads "Haec est domus Dei et porta coeli" (Here is the dwelling of God and the gate of heaven). It relates to the story of Jacob's dream of the ladder to heaven in the biblical book Genesis ( Gen 28.17  EU ).

The lead glass windows from the time it was built were destroyed during the Second World War, except for the two outer windows in the choir, which depict St. Leodegar and St. Valentinus. After the war, the window openings were initially closed with wooden crates until new lead glass windows from the Binsfeld company ( Trier ) were installed in 1951 .

In collaboration with the modeler Thomas Timmermann-Levanas Margret Lafontaine (Düppenweiler) created the sculpture "Stairway to Heaven", with characters from ceramics company Villeroy & Boch ( Mettlach ), the sister Blandine, student nurses and an angel representing, and a ladder of acacia wood from the community forest.

Further items of equipment are the pictures of the Stations of the Cross on sheet copper panels in Nazarene style and the triumphal cross in the chancel, which replaced the neo-Gothic high altar . There are also four paintings on copper fields in the chancel showing scenes from the Old Testament .

A crucifixion group is attached to the outer wall of the baroque tower base .

Blandine Chapel

Blandine Chapel

On the occasion of the beatification of sister Blandine Merten, who was born in Düppenweiler, in 1987, the former war memorial chapel in the entrance area was converted into a Blandine chapel. It houses a relic from part of the sister's arm and a sandstone relief with the most important stations in her life. Blandine Merten was baptized as Maria Magdalena Merten on July 12, 1883 in the previous building of today's parish church and received her first holy communion here on April 12, 1896 .

organ

View to the organ gallery
Organ prospectus

The first organ in the parish church of St. Leodegar, built by the Hock company ( Saarlouis ) in 1905, was replaced in the 1960s by an instrument from the Seifert company ( Kevelaer ). When the organ was rebuilt by the Seifert company, some registers of the Hock organ were reused. The cone shop instrument is set up on a gallery and has 26 registers , distributed over 2 manuals and pedal . The game and stop action is electro-pneumatic. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th Salizional 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Pointed flute 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Schwiegel 2 ′
9. Mixture 4-6f
10. Trumpet 8th'
II swell positive C – g 3
11. Gemshorn 8th'
12. Lovely Gedackt 8th'
13. Praestant 4 ′
14th Transverse flute 4 ′
15th octave 2 ′
16. Nasat 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Sesquialter 2f
18th Cymbal 3f
19th Rohrschalmey 8th'
tremolo
Pedal C – f 1
20th Violon 16 ′
21st Sub bass 16 ′
22nd Octave bass 8th'
23. Dacked bass 8th'
24. Choral bass 4 ′
25th Rauschbass 3-4f
26th trombone 16 ′
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I
  • Playing aids : 2 free combinations, tutti, tongue down, 16 'down, crescendo kick

Bells

In 1957, the Saarlouis bell foundry in Saarlouis-Fraulautern, which was founded by Karl (III) Otto from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and Alois Riewer from Saarland in 1953, cast five bronze bells for the St. Leodegar Church with the chimes: d '- f' - a '- c' '- d' '. The bells have the following diameters: 1412 mm, 1187 mm, 981 mm, 825 mm, 735 mm and weigh: 1680 kg, 1070 kg, 690 kg, 390 kg, 290 kg.

Pastor

The following pastors have worked in the neo-Gothic church building:

  • Baptist Porten (1892-1900)
  • Stephan Metzger (1900–1917)
  • Arimont (? -?)
  • Erhard Krummeich (1940–1951)
  • Heinrich Gierend (1952–1967)
  • Heinz Hammes (1967–1971)
  • Winfried Schnur (1971–1978)
  • Karl Fischer (1978–1991)
  • Siegfried Elbert (1991–31 May 2014)
  • Manfred Thesen (June 2014 - December 2018)
  • Wolfgang Goebel (January 2019 - today)

literature

  • Hans-Berthold Busse: Wilhelm Hector (1855–1918), in: Saarländische Lebensbilder, Vol. 4, Saarbrücken 1989, pp. 139ff.
  • The Catholic Saarland, Home and Church, Ed .: L. Sudbrack and A. Jakob, Volume II / III, Saarbrücken 1954, pp. 68ff.
  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments, Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland, edited by Hans Caspary u. a., 2nd edition, Munich / Berlin 1984, p. 230.
  • Handbook of the Diocese of Trier, 20th edition, Trier 1952, pp. 614f.
  • Institute for Contemporary Art in Saarland, archive, holdings Beckingen, St. Leodegar (Dossier K 299)
  • Philipp de Lorenzi: Contributions to the history of all parishes in the Diocese of Trier, Trier 1887.
  • Marschall, Kristine: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland . Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 978-3-923877-40-9 , p. 666 .
  • Michael Tritz: History of the Wadgassen Abbey, at the same time a cultural and war history of the Saar area, unchanged reprint of the Wadgassen 1901 edition with an introduction by Hans-Walter Herrmann and a register, Saarbrücken 1978.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments in the district of Merzig-Wadern ( Memento of the original dated May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), accessed on March 25, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarland.de
  2. ↑ Georg Skalecki: Eckhardt, Johann Heinrich, in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Vol. 32, Leipzig 2002, p. 100.
  3. ↑ Michael Tritz: History of the Wadgassen Abbey, Simultaneously a cultural and war history of the Saar area, unchanged reprint of the 1901 edition of Wadgassen with an introduction by Hans-Walter Herrmann and a register, Saarbrücken 1978, p. 418.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Institute for Current Art in Saarland: Information on the parish church of St. Leodegar Düppenweiler. Retrieved December 24, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Ruth Wagner: A beneficial overall painting . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , 13./14. July 2013.
  6. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland, Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 221, 448.
  7. ↑ Blandinen-Archiv, Ursulinenkloster Calvarienberg Ahrweiler (ed.): Servant of God, Sister Blandine Merten OSB, Ursuline vom Calvarienberg, from her writings, 4th edition, Trier 1985, p. 181.
  8. ^ Organ of the parish church of St. Leodegar on: www.organindex.de, accessed on May 9, 2014
  9. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 87 to 95, 568 .
  10. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmwegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 105 to 112, 518 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  11. ↑ St. Leodegar - Düppenweiler ( Memento from August 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ^ Father Siegfried Elbert as pastor of the parish "St. Leodegar "Düppenweiler officially adopted ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 50.5 "  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 55.6"  E