St. Martin (Berus)
The Church of St. Martin is a Roman Catholic church in Berus , a district of the Saarland community of Überherrn , Saarlouis district . Saint Martin is the church patron . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.
history
The history of the Berus parish goes back to the place Eschweiler , which has passed away today and whose origins date back to the 6th to 8th centuries. Eschweiler was where the Oranna Chapel is today.
Eschweiler was first mentioned in 1046. The church and parish were first mentioned in documents in 1220 . Together with Ittersdorf and Leidingen , the Eschweiler parish of St. Martinus belonged to the Archipresbyterat Waibelskirchen ( Varize ) in the diocese of Metz . In the same year, the Premonstratensians of the Wadgassen Abbey were granted patronage rights and in 1223 the Bishop of Metz transferred the pastoral care of the parish to the abbey . At this point in time, Eschweiler had already become a desert . Only the church still existed.
Berus was first mentioned in the years 1235, 1246 and 1248 as Berins , Beyrrens and Belrain ( Latin: Bellus Ramus ). Berus was named as the castle and city of the Duke of Lorraine from 1364 . The center of the parish of Eschweiler increasingly shifted to the fortified Berus. In 1401 the pastor and the monks from Wadgassen were ordered by the sovereign to move to a rectory in Berus.
From 1610 to 1612 the nave of the late medieval town church was demolished by the citizens of Berus. The ship was rebuilt and today's tower was built in ashlar masonry.
In 1743 the parish included the places Berus, Altforweiler , Bisten , Überherrn , Felsberg , Neuforweiler , Neuhof, Stadelerhof, Linslerhof and Taffingsmühle.
On April 28, 1749 the foundation stone was laid for the building of the nave of today's parish church, which was built according to the plans of the builder Johann Heinrich Eckhardt ( Wadgassen ). The inauguration took place on September 21, 1750.
The Berus parish left the Metz diocese in 1821 and was assigned to the Trier diocese . In 1826 the church was consecrated anew by the Bishop of Trier Joseph von Hommer and since then has been the patron of Saint Martin.
In 1888 the church tower was raised.
With effect from September 1, 2007, the parishes and parishes of St. Matthias (Altforweiler), St. Martin (Berus) and St. Nikolaus (Felsberg) were merged to form a parish and parish with the name of St. Oranna Überherrn . Parish church of the newly established parish was St. Matthias in Altforweiler.
Furnishing
The original baroque interior of the church comes mainly from the sculptor family Guldner (Berus).
The baroque high altar was replaced in 1905 by a neo-Gothic altar from the Meyer workshop ( Koblenz ). The altarpiece , which is attributed to Sebastian Oehlenschläger, as well as the two adorants flanking the modern tabernacle have been preserved. The tabernacle in enamel footbridge with precious stone inlays , which represents a creative wreath of heaven, earth, air and sea arranged around the cross, was made in 1962 by Anneliese Bietzker.
The altarpiece on the back wall of the choir shows Mary and John under Christ on the cross in a baroque frame that fills the wall . As representatives of the Norbertine of the left and the right Kreuzigungsgruppe the figures of St. Norbert and St. Augustine .
In the chancel there is also an altar-like object with an Oranna figure, in the base of which there was a wooden reliquary with the bones of St. Oranna until 1969 . The relics were returned to their ancestral location, the Oranna Chapel , in 1969 . The shrine has been on a console on the opposite side since 1998 . Furthermore, in the chancel there is a rotating baptismal font by Adam and Georg Guldner from the end of the 18th century, an epitaph of the knight Johann von Haracourt, who died in Berus on April 25, 1550, and a memorial plaque for the mayor of Berus Sebastian Braun, who was in office in the early 18th century .
Two free-standing side altars create a visual separation between the chancel and the nave. They were created in 1766 by the Guldner brothers.
On the side walls of the nave and the gallery parapet there are figures of the apostles .
organ
The organ of the church is located in a case carved from oak , which is attributed to the Guldners. It was built in 1758 when the organ of the Wadgassen monastery church, which was demolished at the time the Berus parish church was built, was rebuilt in Berus. In 1890 the organ was renewed by the Dalstein-Hærpfer company ( Boulay / Lothringen ). In 1940/42 the organ was rebuilt by the Stahlhuth company ( Aachen ).
The cone chopping instrument currently has 18 stops , divided into two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop action is pneumatic. The disposition is as follows:
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Sub-octave coupling: II / I
- Super octave coupling: II / I, II / II
literature
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list of the Saarlouis district (PDF; 347 kB), accessed on May 31, 2013
- ↑ a b c d e f g Parish St. Martin, Berus On: www.sankt-oranna.de, accessed on May 31, 2013
- ↑ Oranna-Kapelle, Berus (PDF; 26 kB) at: www.memotransfront.uni-saarland.de, accessed on May 31, 2013
- ↑ Information on the parish church of St. Martin at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on May 31, 2013
- ↑ Document on the establishment of the parish and parish of St. Oranna Überherrn on: cms.bistum-trier.de, accessed on May 31, 2013
- ↑ a b c d e f g Information inside the church
- ↑ a b Organ of the Church of St. Martin in Berus On: www.organindex.de, accessed on June 20, 2014
Coordinates: 49 ° 15 '57.1 " N , 6 ° 42' 0.9" E