St. Maternus (Aschbach)
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The St. Maternus Church is a Catholic parish church in Aschbach , a district of Lebach in Saarland . The church patron is Saint Maternus , who was the third bishop of Trier according to Trier's lists of bishops . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.
history
Until today's church was built, there was no church in Aschbach, which was assigned to the parish of St. Albanus in Thalexweiler . In 1912 there were first efforts to break away from Thalexweiler and to set up an independent pastoral care unit with its own church. On December 8, 1920, a church building association was founded .
However, a church was not built initially. In 1930 another attempt to initiate construction failed due to a dispute with architects , and in 1931 the approval for the construction of the church, which had already been granted, was finally withdrawn by the Saar government commission .
Immediately after the end of the Second World War , the building project was taken up again by the church building association in May 1945, although the diocese initially resisted the construction. In order to be able to hold church services in Aschbach , the church building association temporarily rented rooms in the old Blum paper mill and set up an emergency church there , which was consecrated on January 1, 1946.
A few weeks earlier, on December 10, 1945, the Vikarie Aschbach was founded by the Trier bishop Franz Rudolf Bornewasser . The Vicarie became a Catholic parish with its own asset management on April 1, 1946, and on September 29, 1950 it was finally completely separated from the parish of Thalexweiler.
For the construction of the church, with the approval of the responsible supervisory authority, a 2.27 hectare area was made available by the civil parish of Aschbach, on which a cemetery was also to be laid out. In cooperation with building officer Hoferer ( Völklingen ), architect Moritz Gombert ( Saarbrücken ) designed the plans for the church building, which were approved by the episcopal authorities on October 6, 1949. The building site was inaugurated on October 23, 1949 and the groundbreaking ceremony took place. The foundation stone was laid on April 30, 1950 by Dechant Knauf. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on August 27, 1950.
Almost all of the construction work was done by volunteers who a. excavated the foundations , quarried and worked on the building material in a nearby quarry , ground the building sand and also covered the roof . The church was consecrated on September 16, 1951.
In the years 2000 to 2005 the church was subjected to an exterior restoration .
In 2017/2018 the interior of the church was renovated and both walls and ceiling were repainted.
Architecture and equipment
The church building consists of a simple nave with a final choir and a square tower attached to the side . The interior has a flat ceiling made of wood .
The church's furnishings include windows that were designed and made in 1950/1951 by the glass and wall painter and mosaic artist Ferdinand Selgrad ( Spiesen-Elversberg ) in collaboration with his assistant, the visual artist Marianne Aatz, née Klein ( Neunkirchen ). Eight of these windows, which define the interior with their bright colors, show scenes from the life of Our Lady . In the choir there are two more windows, which are a little more reserved in color and also have different motifs. The large fresco above the altar on the rear wall of the choir is also from Selgrad .
Other items of equipment are the sandstone altar created by Ambrosius Jacob in 1957 and the side altars by Ernst Brauner.
In the tower of the church there is a ring of four bells , which was purchased in September 1955.
organ
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The church's first organ was a 1929 instrument that was purchased by the Benedictine Abbey of Tholey in 1958 and was in use until the late 1980s.
Between 1987 and 1989 the Hugo Mayer company ( Heusweiler ) built a new organ. The on a loft established sliderchest -instrument has 21 registers , spread over 2 manuals and pedal . The key action is mechanical, the key action electrically. The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
- Playing aids : 2 free combinations, individual tongue storage
Picture gallery of the church before the interior renovation 2017/18
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literature
- Josef Lattwein: The parish church of St. Maternus Aschbach. In: Historical calendar Lebach 2009. The Lebach churches. Published by the Lebach Historical Society
- Bastian Müller: Post-war architecture in Saarland. Saarbrücken 2011 (= preservation of monuments in Saarland, 4), p. 133
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list of the Saarlouis district ( Memento of the original from April 7, 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 April 16, 2014
- ↑ a b c d e f g Catholic parish church St. Maternus Aschbach On: www.katholische-kirche-lebach.de, accessed on April 16, 2014
- ↑ a b c d e f g Josef Lattwein: The parish church of St. Maternus Aschbach . In: Historical calendar Lebach 2009. The Lebach churches.
- ↑ a b c d e Traudl Brenner: Honor for the third Bishop of Trier - The Catholic Church of St. Maternus in Lebach-Aschbach . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , 8./9. February 2014.
- ↑ a b Information on the parish church of St. Maternus Aschbach at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on April 16, 2014
- ↑ Aschbach church is being renovated inside
- ↑ The organ of the St. Maternus Church in Aschbach On: organindex.de, accessed on April 16, 2014
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 0.5 ″ N , 6 ° 56 ′ 51.8 ″ E