St. Mauritius (Fremersdorf)

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The Catholic Church of St. Mauritius in Fremersdorf
Another view of the church
High altar
View inside the church
View of the gallery with the prospectus of the Klais organ

The Church of St. Mauritius and St. Barbara is a Roman Catholic parish church in Fremersdorf , a district of the Saarland municipality of Rehlingen-Siersburg , Saarlouis district . Church patrons are St. Mauritius and St. Barbara . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.

history

The previous building of today's parish church was built in 1816/17. The tower was built in 1829. This church was equipped with items from a previous church from 1726, which stood in the Fremersdorf cemetery and had to be demolished due to lack of space and dilapidation , as well as the clock tower and some statues from the chapel of Fremersdorf Castle, which was demolished in 1797 . The pulpit came from the former Mettlach Abbey and is now in the Catholic parish church of Dickenschied near Kirchberg in the Hunsrück . In 1830 the church received a baroque organ from the brothers Franz Heinrich and Carl Stumm ( Rhaunensulzbach / Hunsrück).

After the church had become too small in 1816/17, it was decided to build a new church according to plans by the architect Wilhelm Hector ( Saarbrücken-St. Johann ). Construction began in March 1911 and the church was completed in July 1912. In a quarry between Fremersdorf and Mechern , the stones required for the construction were broken, which were then placed along the road to Rehlingen and worked there. Numerous stone masons , bricklayers and plasterers from Fremersdorf were involved in building the church . The inauguration of the new church, which was dedicated to Saint Mauritius and Saint Barbara, took place on July 13, 1913 by Trier Auxiliary Bishop Karl Ernst Schrod .

During the First World War in June 1917 two bells of the three bells had to be given for war purposes, whereby the third bell, which was connected to the clockwork of the tower clock, could be kept as a bell. After the war, two new bells were purchased. In the Second World War , two bells had to be handed in again. The church was badly damaged during fighting at the end of 1944 / beginning of 1945, when the Saar valley near Fremersdorf had become a frontline area where German and American troops faced each other. Renovation and renewal work began in early 1950 and lasted until 1955. In December 1955 the church received five new bells.

Between 1980 and 1985, the church underwent an interior renovation based on plans by the architect Elmar Kraemer ( Saarbrücken ).

Architecture and equipment

The church building was built as a basilica in the neo-Romanesque style and has a cross-shaped floor plan . The tower is attached to the side of the nave , which is divided into a central nave with two bays and two side aisles with four bays. A transept adjoins the nave and the choir with a semicircular apse . The ceilings of the ships are formed by ribbed vaults.

The high altar still comes from the previous church , which was created from 1859 to 1861 by stone carver Michel Leuck (Fremersdorf) according to the plan of the painter Kiefer ( Mettlach ). The same applies to the side altars, the Marien and Joseph altars. The font also comes from Leuck, who made it in 1865 according to a plan by Wallerfang architect Alexander Franz Himpler. The miniature pictures on the base of the high altar are works by the painter Heinrich Steffgen (Maar / Trier). The figures of the high altar, which have only been in their current places since 1951 , a Christ figure that is a copy after Bertel Thorvaldsen , as well as the church patrons Mauritius and Barbara come from earlier churches in Fremersdorf.
According to plans by the architect Ludwig Becker (Mainz), the Marien Altar was redesigned when it was moved from the old to the new church. Steinhauer Wilhelm Folz (Fremersdorf) and Peter Hoffmann (Rehlingen) were responsible for the execution of the plans, while the altarpiece is a masterpiece by a young stone mason from Münstermaifeld . The heart of Jesus statue carved from chestnut wood next to the Marien Altar is the work of the sculptor Kohlbeither ( Koblenz ).

Sculptor Heinz Oliberius ( St. Wendel ) in 1992 made the established in the choir celebration altar of sandstone on which replaced a 1967 erected altar only as temporary was intended.

Further items of equipment are the painting Apparition of the Risen , a work by the "painter countess" Octavie de Lassalle de Louisenthal ( Dagstuhl Castle ), as well as a Madonna's chasuble and a chasuble with the image of the parish priest St. Mauritius, which were donated by the Mothers' Association after 1950.

The church windows with depictions of saints on a modern background were supplied by Ehrismann und Lang ( Strasbourg- Robertsau). The image of the Virgin Mary in a niche near the entrance portal comes from the sculptor Frank (Trier) and was carved from the wood of a linden tree that stood next to the old church.

organ

The organ of the church was built by the company Klais Orgelbau ( Bonn ). The production of the instrument in the Bonn workshop of Klais Orgelbau took a year. The transport of the organ from Bonn to Fremersdorf took place in September 1999, where the assembly and intonation took place in the following months. The organ consecration took place on December 12, 1999, Regional Dean Helmut Gammel. With regard to the planned Klais organ, the gallery on which the organ is placed was restored and rebuilt in 1997 .

The previous organ, built by Haerpfer & Erman ( Boulay / Lothringen ) in 1959, was sold to the Christkönig parish in Trier and installed there in 2001.

The German organ builder Klais gave the new instrument French register names , while the predecessor instrument by the French organ manufacturer Haerpfer & Erman from 1959 for a church in Saarland, which was only part of Germany again for a short time, had consciously been given German register names. The Haerpfer & Erman organ had electro-pneumatic cone chests and electric stop action as well as the following disposition:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Lovely covered 8th'
3. Praestant 4 ′
4th octave 2 ′
5. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Swell C – g 3
6th Willow pipe 8th'
7th Coupling flute 8th'
8th. Reed flute 4 ′
9. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Night horn 2 ′
11. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
12. Trumpet 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
13. Sub-bass 16 ′
14th Octave bass 8th'
15th Covered bass 8th'
16. Flat flute 4 ′
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I
    • Super octave coupling: II / I
  • Playing aids : 1 free combination, piano, tutti

The new Klais organ is a sliderchest -instrument and has 22 (24) stops on two manuals and pedal . The action mechanism is mechanical, the stop action is electric.
The disposition is as follows:

I main work C – a 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Montre 8th'
3. Bourdon 8th'
4th Prestant 4 ′
5. Duplicate 2 ′
6th Mauritius III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th Fittings IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Trumpets 8th'
9. Voix humaine 8th'
II Récit expressif C – a 3
10. Flûte harmonique 8th'
11. Viola di gamba 8th'
12. Voix céleste 8th'
13. Flûte à cheminée 4 ′
14th Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Flute 2 ′
16. Tierce 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
17th Trompette harmonique 8th'
18th Hautbois 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
19th Soubasse 16 ′
20th Fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
21st Flute 8th'
Bourdon (= No. 3) 8th'
22nd Bombard 16 ′
Trumpet (= No. 8) 8th'
  • Couple:
    • Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I, II / II
    • Super octave coupling: II / I, II / II, II / P
  • Playing aids: 4 × 64 (256) typesetting combinations, everything ab

Bells

In 1955, the Saarlouiser bell foundry in Saarlouis-Fraulautern, which was founded by Karl (III) Otto from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and Alois Riewer from Saarland in 1953, cast four new bronze bells for the St. Mauritus Church in Fremersdorf with the striking notes: d ′ - e ′ - f sharp ′ - a ′. The bells have the following diameters: 1402 mm, 1249 mm, 1120 mm, 935 mm. They weigh: 1600 kg, 1150 kg, 800 kg, 480 kg.

Web links

Commons : Saint Maurice Church (Fremersdorf)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments in the Saarlouis district  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 347 kB). Retrieved July 14, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.saarland.de  
  2. ↑ a b The parish churches On: www.fremersdorf.de. Retrieved July 12, 2013
  3. ↑ a b The new parish church On: www.fremersdorf.de. Retrieved July 12, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Information on the parish church of St. Mauritius at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de. Retrieved July 12, 2013
  5. ↑ a b c d e The organ of the parish church of St. Mauritius On: www.organindex.de. Retrieved July 14, 2013
  6. ↑ Klais organ on: www.fremersdorf.de. Retrieved July 14, 2013
  7. ↑ a b Christkönig - Trier - De Auf: www.orgelbau-erz.de. Retrieved July 14, 2013
  8. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, especially page 567 .
  9. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially p. 518 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (PhD thesis at Radboud University Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '17.3 "  N , 6 ° 38' 57.6"  E