St. Matthias (Altforweiler)

The Catholic parish church of St. Matthias in Altforweiler

View inside the church

View to the organ gallery

The St. Matthias Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Altforweiler , a district of the Saarland community of Überherrn , Saarlouis district . The church patron is the apostle Matthias . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.

history

Altforweiler originally belonged to the pastoral care of the parish of the abandoned town of Eschweiler . Today the Oranna Chapel is located there . With the assignment to the parish of Berus , attending church services was a difficult path and in Altforweiler the desire for a church of their own resulted .

In 1836, construction of a chapel began in Altforweiler on the property of the wealthy widow Leinen, which the Altforweiler community donated to the community of Altforweiler. The chapel was consecrated to the Apostle Matthias, alluding to the name of the widow's husband. The consecration of the chapel took place on 21 October. 1838

Altforweiler became a chapel congregation on April 1, 1923, and an independent parish on August 1, 1925, with Johannes Strupp as the first pastor .

A good 90 years after its completion, the need for a new church arose due to moisture, the low construction and, above all, the increasing lack of space. A church building association was founded on December 18, 1927, the first groundbreaking for the new church took place on September 11, 1932, and the foundation stone was laid on July 7, 1933 . The church was built according to plans by the Trier architect Peter Marx . Building contractor Adam Ehl (Altforweiler) was responsible for the execution. Local sandstone served as building material . The benediction took place on July 7, 1935. The solemn consecration on November 6, 1936 was carried out by the Trier auxiliary bishop Albert Maria Fuchs .

The construction of the church, which was built by the community in-house, could be accomplished debt-free.

In the years 1990 to 1999 the church underwent a restoration .

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.

organ

The organ of the church was built in 1958 by the Seifert company ( Bergisch Gladbach ). The cone chest instrument set up on a gallery has 25 (26) registers , distributed over 2 manuals and pedal . The action mechanism is electro-pneumatic, the stop action is pneumatic. The disposition is as follows

I Hauptwerk C – g ³
1.	Quintad	16 ′
2.	Principal	8th'
3.	Dumped	8th'
4th	Salizional	8th'
5.	octave	4 ′
6th	Coupling flute	4 ′
7th	Fifth	2 ² ⁄ ₃  ′
8th.	Schwegel	2 ′
9.	Mixture IV-V	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
10.	Trumpet	8th'

II Swell C – g ³
11.	Gemshorn	8th'
12.	Reed flute	8th'
13.	Viol flute	8th'
14th	Prefix	4 ′
15th	Night horn	4 ′
16.	Flageolet	2 ′
17th	Larigot	1 ¹ ⁄ ₃  ′
18th	Zimbel III	² ⁄ ₃ ′
19th	Krummhorn	8th'

Pedal C – f ¹
20th	Sub-bass	16 ′
	Quintad (= No. 1)	16 ′
21st	Octave bass	8th'
22nd	Thought bass	8th'
23.	Chorale bass	4 ′
24.	Bass flute	4 ′
25th	trombone	8th'