St. Ludwig (Spiesen)

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The parish church of St. Ludwig in Spiesen

St. Ludwig is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Spiesen parish of the Spiesen-Elversberg parish , Neunkirchen district . It bears the patronage of King Ludwig the Holy . In the list of monuments of the Saarland the church building is a single monument listed.

history

Carl Friedrich Müller (born June 14, 1833 in Hersfeld; † August 1, 1889 ibid.), Master builder of the Saarlouis district, architect of the St. Ludwig Church in Spiesen, photo from 1870

In 1800 a new Catholic church was built in Spiesen. A previous building had been officially closed in 1605 as part of the Reformation introduced in Spiesen by Count Albrecht von Nassau-Weilburg-Ottweiler in 1575 .

In the 1850s there was a design by the architect and railway engineer Havemann for a larger new building, which was not implemented for reasons of cost.

In 1869, the architect Carl Friedrich Müller ( Saarlouis ) presented a new plan with a cost estimate , which was accepted in October 1869. Construction disputes and the outbreak of the Franco-German War from 1870 to 1871 initially prevented construction from starting. At the end of 1871 there was a building site , but in the course of the Kulturkampf , the state building permit was refused. At the end of 1874 the dilapidation of the existing church building was determined. Thereupon, the architect Müller suggested building the church in stages. In the years 1875–1877, the building contractor Louis Zeitz ( Sulzbach ) expanded the existing church to include a choir and a transept , which, for reasons of cost, had a relatively low ceiling height. In June 1875 there was a construction freeze due to the lack of state building permits . In 1876 construction work could be resumed. The still existing old nave was renewed after renewed determination of the dilapidation in the years 1885-1887 according to plans by Carl Friedrich Müller. Contractor Hoppstädter (Spiesen) was responsible for the execution.

The church was painted in the 1890s. In 1928 additional and changing paintings were made.

In 1952 the interior of the church was restored . Another restoration took place in 1987.

Building description

architecture

Another view of the church

The church was built in the neo-Gothic style. The basic architectural form of the church building is a basilica with a cross-shaped floor plan . The nave is divided into a central nave and two side aisles of equal height , each with four bays ; the nave has four window axes . A transept adjoins the nave and the choir . The ceiling of the nave is formed by ribbed vaults.

The inside of the church

Inside the church there are seven bronze reliefs by the painter and sculptor Ernst Alt ( Saarbrücken ) from 1996 as an altar panel ; He also made a votive chandelier with flower ornaments, a seven-armed chandelier and parts of the St. Francis chapel integrated into the church. The sacred art of the church includes a late Gothic wooden figure of St. Louis in a lily robe and a scepter in his hand and a wooden late Gothic figure of Christ on the cross, which probably comes from the Loire in France.

All of the church windows date from the time it was built and are designed as two-lane pointed arch windows with circular tracery at the top. From the time of construction of the church comes also with carvings provided stalls , as well as the valuable carved , which stands today as a sacrament altar in the background of the sanctuary.

The interior of the church was painted in several sections. When it was first painted in the 1890s, the architectural structure was emphasized by imitating stone blocks with joint cuts . Ornamental and figurative designs were reserved for the choir and the reinforcement arch between the central nave and the crossing . In the 1920s there was a change in the painting. When the last painting was done in 1952, there was a change in favor of a color version that underlined the architectural structure. The ceiling was painted according to original samples.

  • View inside the church

  • Sacrament altar

  • View to the organ gallery

organ

Organ prospectus

The organ of the church was built in 1959 by the Johannes Klais Orgelbau company ( Bonn ) as opus 1154. The instrument, originally with 40 registers , distributed over 3 manuals and pedal , is set up on a gallery and has a free-standing console . The wind chests are slider chests (in the manual works) and cone chests (in the pedal) with an electric play and stop action . In 2003 the organ was restored by Hugo Mayer Orgelbau ( Heusweiler ) and two stops were added.

I Rückpositiv C – g 3
1. Dumped 8th'
2. Quintadena 8th'
3. Praestant 4 ′
4th Capstan flute 4 ′
5. Principal 2 ′
6th Sif flute 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Scharff IV
8th. Cymbel II
9. Rankett 16 ′
10. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
II Hauptwerk C – g 3
11. Quintadena 16 ′
12. Principal 8th'
13. Reed flute 8th'
14th Salicional 8th'
15th Octav 4 ′
16. recorder 4 ′
17th Schwegel 2 ′
18th Cornet III
19th Mixture IV-VI
20th Tromba 8th'
21st Trumpet 8th'
22nd Head trumpet 4 ′
III Swell C – g 3
23. Wooden flute 8th'
24. Gemshorn 8th'
25th Principal 4 ′
26th Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
27. Hollow flute 2 ′
28. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
29 Oktavlein 1'
30th Mixture IV
31. bassoon 16 ′
32. Schalmey 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
33. Principal 16 ′
34. Sub bass 16 ′
Quintadena 16 ′
35. Quintbass 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
36. Octavbass 8th'
37. Cane-covered 8th'
38. Choral bass 4 ′
39. Night horn 2 ′
40. Backset IV-VI
41. trombone 16 ′
42. Bass trumpet 8th'
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: I / II, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: III / I, III / II, III / III
    • Super octave coupling: I / P
  • Playing aids : two free combinations, one free pedal combination, tutti, crescendo
Remarks
  1. ↑ a b register added in 2003
  2. ↑ Transmission from the main work

literature

  • Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland . Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 3-923877-40-4 .
  • Rudolf Saam: Contribution to the building history of neo-Gothic churches on the Saar. On the life and work of the builder Carl Friedrich Müller . In: Saarbrücker Hefte, Heft 48, pp. 17–51, Saarbrücken 1978

Web links

Commons : St. Ludwig (Spiesen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list district Neunkirchen (PDF; 1.3 MB), accessed on July 4, 2012
  2. ↑ a b c d Information on the parish church of St. Ludwig at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on July 4, 2012
  3. ↑ a b c Information on the interior of the parish church St. Ludwig at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on July 4, 2012
  4. ↑ Organ of the Church of St. Ludwig (Catholic) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. Info page of the Orgeln im Saarland website , accessed on July 4, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saar-orgelland.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 58.3 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 6 ″  E