St. Marien (Russhütte)

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The Catholic Church of St. Marien in Malstatt-Rußhütte
St. Marien with rectory on the high bank of the Fischbach
Portal of the cath. Church of St. Marien, Malstatt-Rußhütte, relief image: The inhabitants of Rußhütte in veneration of the Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus
View of the interior
View to the gallery
Chancel with mosaic by Villeroy & Boch

The Catholic Church of St. Marien is a church building of the parish community Saarbrücken Malstatt in the dean's office Saarbrücken of the Diocese of Trier and is in the Fischbachstrasse in the Saarbrücken district of Malstatt on the Russhütte . She bears the patronage of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary .

history

Until the establishment of the parish of St. Josef in Malstatt in 1887, the Russhütte, which was built in 1721 by master glassblower August Guthmann, who had built a glassworks here with the permission of Count Karl Karl Ludwig von Nassau-Saarbrücken and had eight families settled here, was like the remaining parts of the present-day city of Saarbrücken are looked after by the Catholic parish of St. Johann in St. Johann (Saar) . The rather long walking distance (3/4-hour walk) between the Rußhütte and St. Johann was problematic for the exercise of pastoral care. At the beginning of the 19th century, Russhütte and Malstatt had a total of 75 households with 450 inhabitants. By 1880, the population of the Russhütte had increased to 778. From 1887, Malstatt and Rußhütte were separated from St. Johann and made an independent parish of St. Josef. From then on, the Catholics of the Russhütte were looked after by chaplains from St. Josef. In 1893 a church building association was founded in Rußhütte under the initiative of the pastor of St. Josef, Matthias Metzdorf.

The sudden death of Pastor Metzdorf and the outbreak of the First World War put the planning to an early end. Only after the First World War could an emergency church be put into service in 1919. According to a resolution by the city administration, the grounds of the Charlottenstiftung were up for sale at the beginning of 1920 . Pastor Franz-Josef Bungarten acquired the area on behalf of the St. Josef parish, which gave it to the St. Mary's daughter parish and thus created an essential prerequisite for the construction of the church and rectory. After the opportunity to purchase the privately owned hall of the emergency church arose in the same year, in 1922 the episcopal vicariate in Trier was able to follow the insistence of the congregation to establish the independent parish of St. Marien in Rußhütte. The Catholic parish church of St. Marien (Patronage of the Assumption ) was finally built in the years 1926–1927 by the Mainz architects Ludwig Becker and Anton Falkowski in an abstract neo-baroque style. It was consecrated on October 10, 1929 by the Trier auxiliary bishop Antonius Mönch . In 1938 part of the parish of St. Mary was re-parish to the mother parish of St. Josef. The Rußhütte church was damaged in an air raid in 1945, but could be repaired as early as 1947-1949. Today the parish of St. Marien is part of a pastoral care unit with St. Albert in the Malstatter district of Rodenhof . The church has been closed since 2017 due to structural damage. Services take place in the community hall. It is unclear whether and when the church will be used again.

architecture

The church is a basilica of abstraction historicism with elements of neo-baroque . It was built in the years 1926–1927 according to plans by the Mainz architects Ludwig Becker and Anton Falkowski and was ceremonially consecrated on October 10, 1929. The damage caused in the Second World War could be repaired by 1949 under the direction of the architect Karl Kaule. Kaule made the roof structure lower than in the pre-war state.

The nave of the basilica has three bays. As a hall-like main room, the central nave dominates the entire space, as the side aisles are relatively low and narrow. The pent roof of the side aisles extends to the sills of the upper clad windows . The shape of the window consists of a square with smaller rectangles and a small pointed arch that is drawn in again, which are framed by a round bar. These window shapes, varied in size, are used on side aisles, transept front walls and on the portal vestibule.

The transept arms load over the main nave and the aisles, but do not reach the height of the nave roof in the roof truss zone. In the interior, too, the transept arms are subordinate to the central nave.

The large church tower on a square floor plan stands on the sides of the recessed choir area on the south side of the church. The bell storey rises in a recessed form over a projecting console cornice and is covered with a baroque hood. The sound windows are just closing.

With the exception of the windows and the portal, the exterior of the church is completely plastered and without any architectural structure. The decoration appears only on the front of the polygonal porch porch closed by a baroque bell-shaped roof. Relief pilasters and a large lintel frame the actual walls of the simple door. The relief image shows residents of the Russhütte as industrial workers, miners, children, a mother and an elderly couple in worship of the Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus. The Mother of God is flanked by small baroque putti . A couple of parents seem to urge their children, a boy and a girl, to worship the Virgin and Child. A window complements the portal structure.

In the entrance area of ​​the church there is a Marian column with the statue of the Immaculate Conception .

The church building takes up the traditional building type of the basilica, but changes its proportions. The crystalline lintels can no longer be assigned to a specific historical style, the crystalline, jagged shapes are reminiscent of contemporary expressionism .

Furnishing

In the Marian year 1954, the artist and architect Hans Hansen (1889–1966) installed the mosaic picture “The Coronation of Mary by the Most Holy Trinity” in the semicircle of the apse behind the high altar.

In 1956, the company Villeroy & Boch ( Mettlach ) produced a mosaic frieze for the area below the coronation mosaic with nine larger-than-life angel figures holding the instruments of Christ's passion. Between them is the song of praise for the heavenly choirs, "Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth." Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua ”inserted. The mosaic was laid by the Saarbrücken company Gebr. Deutsch. The sculptor Bogler (Neunkirchen) created a statue out of white artificial stone in 1959.

organ

Mayer organ
South window between the two halves of the organ

The organ of the church was built in 1956 by the Hugo Mayer Orgelbau company . The cone chest instrument set up on a gallery has 24 (26) registers , distributed over two manuals and pedal . The game and stop action is electro-pneumatic. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th Salizional 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Pointed flute 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Forest flute 2 ′
9. Mixture 4-5f
10. Trumpet 8th'
II Positive C-g 3
11. Dumped 8th'
12. Principal 4 ′
13. Night horn 4 ′
14th Sesquialter 2f 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Principal 2 ′
16. recorder 1'
17th Cymbel 4f
18th Dulzean 16 ′
19th Schalmey 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
20th Sub bass 16 ′
Covered bass 16 ′ (Transm. I Bourdon 16 ′)
21st Octave bass 8th'
Bass flute 8 ′ (Transm. I reed flute 8 ′)
22nd Choral bass 4 ′
23. Backset 4f
24. trombone 16 ′

Bells

In 1936, newly cast bells were hung in the bell tower. After the bell was released in World War II, there was only one bell (tone b´) left. In 1953, the Bochum Association added three new steel bells (es' - 1128 kg - Ø 142.5 cm, ges' - 657 kg - Ø 118 cm, as' - 440 kg - Ø 104.5 cm) to the old bell.

literature

  • L. Sudbrack, A. Jakob (Ed.): The Catholic Saarland. Home and church. Volume 1, Saarbrücken 1954, p. 24.
  • Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland. Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, p. 315 and 551.

swell

  • Construction plans from 1926 in the archive of the Lower Building Supervisory Authority Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken house file, Fischbachstraße 93
  • Saarbrücken State Archive, Ministry of Culture, MK 1076, Az .: KI-03.
  • Institute for contemporary art in Saarland, archive, holdings Saarbrücken, Assumption of Mary (Dossier K 31)
  • http://www.st-marien-russhuette.de/

Web links

Commons : St. Marien (Rußhütte)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.stjosef-saarbruecken.de/index.php?id=926
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of April 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 25, 2014.
  4. ^ Service information on the website of the congregation
  5. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland. Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, p. 315 and 551.
  6. ↑ Erdogan Aksu: Hans Hansen: An artist architect between avant-garde and Heimatstil, Baden-Baden 2019.
  7. ↑ http://www.kunstlexikonsaar.de/architektur/artikel/-/kirchenbau-und-kunst-im-sakralen-raum-nach-1945-im-saarland-katholische-kirchen-regionalverband-sa-11/ , accessed on September 26, 2014.
  8. ^ Organ of the St. Marien Church, Saarbrücken-Rußhütte On: www.organindex.de. Retrieved April 27, 2015
  9. ↑ Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: The bells of the Saarland, Saarbrücken 1997, p 140th

Coordinates: 49 ° 15 ′ 17.8 "  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 28.3"  E