St. Lucia (Knorscheid)

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St. Lucia in the center of Knorscheid
Inside the chapel

St. Lucia is a listed Roman Catholic chapel in the Lebach district of Knorscheid ( Saarlouis district , Saarland ).

history

In the center of the village of Knorscheid, the residents built a small church for their independent parish early on. "Cnorskeid" was one of the parishes that went to Mettlach to visit the grave of St. Lutwinus around the year 950 . The small parish belonged to its own fiefdom under the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken . Since the parish income was low, around 1537 , Count Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Saarbrücken, at the request of the Knorscheider residents, gave permission for Pastor Matthis Sierk from Lebach to carry out the service. When in 1575 Count Philip III. von Nassau-Weilburg forcibly introduced the Reformation, Knorscheid was subordinate to the evangelical pastor in Heusweiler. The chapel was allowed to continue to be cared for as a Catholic. Around the year 1756 there is no longer any record of Lutherans in the village. In the turmoil of the French Revolution , the church was badly damaged and fell into disrepair.

In 1811 the local farmers built a new church on the plan of the first chapel. When the furniture of La Motte Castle was sold in 1822 , the local Weber family bought the castle chapel and donated it to the chapel. Probably in the middle of the 19th century, the chapel was given a porch on the entrance side, which served as a residential building. The small residential building was demolished around the turn of the century.

architecture

The small rectangular building in east-west direction is at the eastern end of the village square in the center of the village. The two-axis plastered building with a three-sided end has two window axes with colorful, square lead glass elements. On the gable roof above the entrance portal sits a slate roof turret with red sound louvers. Originally the chapel had a round arch portal, which was replaced by a straight sandstone lintel after a porch was demolished. Above the portal sits a small oculus of sandstone. The segmented arched windows are also made with sandstone soffits. The corners of the building are accentuated by sandstone blocks.

Furnishing

The old tiled floor inside the church is barely visible, it was largely covered by wooden floorboards. The high altar with the altarpiece (around 1710) by the Trier court painter Jean Louis Connet is made in the Baroque style. The picture rests in the altarpiece, flanked by two columns each and stands under a triangular pediment with a portrait of Christ. The wooden statues of St. Lucia , St. Barbara and St. Norbert . Altar and figures come from the castle church of La Motte, as do the stalls. The church also has a relic of the Holy Cross and a reliquary monstrance of St. Lucia.

literature

  • Klaus Altmeyer: The St. Lucia Chapel in Knorscheid . In: Historical calendar Lebach 2009. The Lebach churches . Published by the Lebach Historical Society, 2009.
  • Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland . Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002.
  • Saarforschungsgemeinschaft (ed.): The art monuments of the Ottweiler and Saarlouis districts, edited by Walter Zimmermann, 2nd, unchanged edition from 1934, Saarbrücken 1976, pp. 219–220.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sub-monument list of the district of Saarlouis ( 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. , List of monuments of the Saarland, Landesdenkmalamt Saar, p. 8 (PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarland.de
  2. ^ Saarforschungsgemeinschaft (ed.): The art monuments of the Ottweiler and Saarlouis districts, edited by Walter Zimmermann, 2nd, unchanged edition from 1934, Saarbrücken 1976, pp. 219–220.
  3. ↑ Archive Koblenz 22, No. 2444.
  4. ↑ Carl Roderich Richter: How the Saar area became Protestant - Reformation and Counter-Reformation 1575–1690 (Our Saarheimat, a series of popular folk writings, volume 10), Saarbrücken 1925, p. 62 f.
  5. ↑ Stadtarchiv Saarbrücken: Handwritten source of a description of the office by Christian Lex from 1756, description of the Oberamt Saarbrücken, manuscript 1089, p. 85.

Coordinates: 49 ° 23 '56.4 "  N , 6 ° 52' 12.5"  E