St. Mauritius (Saarbrücken)

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St. Mauritius Saarbrücken
Organ console and view of the former chancel
View of the organ

The church building St. Mauritius in Alt-Saarbrücken is a former Roman Catholic parish church of the Trier diocese .

history

An emergency church had existed on Bellevue, a district in Alt-Saarbrücken, since 1931 and was looked after as a branch by the parish of St. Jakob . In the post-war years, the Roman Catholic population increased rapidly, so that the need for an independent parish with a local parish church rose sharply. In 1953, the decision was made to build today's church building on Moltkestrasse. The church was built according to the design by the architects Albert Dietz and Bernhard Grothe and consecrated on May 6, 1956.

For around four decades, St. Mauritius was the pastoral center at Bellvue. However, at the end of the 1990s it became apparent that the management and restoration of the buildings could no longer be carried out by the small parish in the medium term. As a result, they were forced to give up the parish church. On November 30, 2003, St. Mauritius was the first church in Saarbrücken to be profaned and the parish was incorporated into the parish of St. Jakob. Even today the parish festival of St. Mauritius takes place every year at the patronage in the mother church of St. Jacob.

First of all, the church building was converted into a venue by the Saar University of Music . However, this subsequent use only lasted for a short time, so that the architecturally and art-historically significant building in the brutalist style is empty to this day. The former church of St. Mauritius is also registered as an individual monument in the list of monuments of the city of Saarbrücken .

Building description

Exterior

The church interior of St. Mauritius has a hexagonal floor plan, with the altar wall folding slightly outwards and the corresponding west wall folding inwards. On the street side in the north there is a lower aisle , the outer wall of which is continuously folded so that it has a three-dimensional effect. The building of the side aisle merges seamlessly into the sacristy in the east and also runs as an outer wall around the entire property. On this side there is an inner courtyard with a covered walkway in front of the portal and south of the church . Based on early Christian paradises, the architects intended this inner courtyard as a protected space that spatially separates the secular outside world from the sacred church building. Accordingly, there is also a round fountain there. The property is entered from the street side through the gate-like open ground floor of the mighty concrete tower. This is airy and openwork and in proportion to the church building reaches a relatively large height of 37.12 m.

Interior

The church is entered through four large portals on the west side. The room itself is extremely simple. The walls are structured by concrete pillars that fork in the sloping roof and end before reaching the ridge. In this way, a cross vault is indicated in an abstract way . On the north side is the low aisle, the folded outer wall of which is broken up by narrow vertical window strips. These windows in the aisle on the north side were designed by Karl-Heinz-Grünewald.

The south side of the church is flooded with light and dissolves in abstract stained glass , except for the concrete columns . These windows on the south side as well as the upper cladding windows on the north side were designed by the artist Boris Kleinert. A concrete ceiling has been drawn in over the entrance portals on the back wall of the church, which both forms a vestibule and supports the pipe work of the organ . The console for the organ and the room for the church choir are on the ground floor below and are separated from the rest of the room by a parapet. To make it easier for the organist and the choir to listen directly to the organ, the concrete ceiling above is pierced with slits.

Furnishing

organ

Side view of the organ

The organ of the St. Mauritius Church was built in 1956 by Hugo Mayer Orgelbau (Saarbrücken-Brebach) and has 25 registers (including two transmissions), two manuals and a pedal on electro-pneumatic cone chests . The placement of the pipework on the concrete slab above the console and the free pipe prospect , which creates a sense of depth through the visible arrangement of all registers, were unusual . The instrument was sold to the parish of San Marcello in Piedimonte Matese (Campania, Italy) in 2017 . The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Quintad 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. Pointed flute 4 ′
6th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Forest flute 2 ′
8th. Mixture IV-V
9. Trumpet 8th'
II Positive C-g 3
10. Dumped 8th'
11. Salizional 8th'
12. Praestant 4 ′
13. Night horn 4 ′
14th Principal 2 ′
15th recorder 1'
16. Sesquialter II
17th Cymbel IV
18th Krummhorn 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
19th Sub bass 16 ′
Covered bass 16 ′
20th Octave bass 8th'
Bass flute 8th'
21st Choral bass 4 ′
22nd Back set IV
23. trombone 16 ′
Remarks:
  1. ↑ Transmission from No. 1
  2. ↑ Transmission from No. 3

Bells

The five bronze bells (d ′ - fis ′ - a ′ - h ′ - cis ′ ′) come from the Mabilon bell foundry ( Saarburg ) and were given to the parish of St. Martinus in Hermeskeil in 2015 , where they have been ringing again since 2017.

Dimensions

  • Tower height: 37.12 m
  • Ridge height: 9.60 m
  • Length of the nave: 25.60 m
  • Width of the nave: 19.50 m

See also

Web links

Commons : St. Mauritius (Saarbrücken)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Original volume 1: St. Mauritius in Alt Saarbrücken ; Wolfgang Niesen and Dr. Bernhard Wehlen, Saarbrücken 2016

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Detailed publication on the Saarbrücken churches in the post-war period
  2. ↑ a b The building description was written on the basis of the photos on the following links ( here and here ) and from my own knowledge of the premises.
  3. ↑ The Mayer organ on organ index
  4. ↑ Further information on the organ
  5. ↑ Information about the bells

Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 50.5 ″  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 7.5 ″  E