St. Michael (Homburg)
St. Michael is the Roman Catholic parish church in Homburg . The neo-Romanesque church building at the foot of the Schlossberg characterizes the Homburg cityscape and has become a symbol of the city. The church is listed in the Saarland monuments list as an individual monument in the ensemble Marktplatz / Klosterstraße .
history
The present church building is the successor building of 1235 created "Holy Cross Chapel in the Valley," the first time in the 1335 Wörschweiler monastery regesta was mentioned. It was the first church to be occupied in Homburg. In 1836 the last service took place in the old church.
In the years 1836–1841, the new building, which still exists today, was built on the same site according to the plans of civil building inspector August von Voit ( Munich ). It was consecrated on September 29, 1841 by the then Speyer Bishop Johannes von Geissel . In his address for the consecration of the church, Pastor Johannes Jackel especially thanked the Land Commissioner (District Administrator) Johann Christian Chelius who showed himself to be “particularly good and active” with regard to the construction project and who accompanied it “with the greatest and most commendable zeal” from the beginning to the completion .
In 1930–31, 1970–72, 1991 and 1996–97 the church underwent restorations .
architecture
The church was built in the neo-Romanesque style. It is a hall church made of red sandstone blocks . The choir tower has the shape of an octagon and rises above the choir . Inside the church, the choir closes off in an apse .
Furnishing
Notable inside is the canopy altar. It was donated in 1898 by Prince Leopold von Bayern from Munich, who donated 20,000 marks at the time . The altar was designed by the sculptor Georg Busch (Munich). The execution in the German-Romanesque style was carried out by the Herzoglich Bayrische Hof-Kunst-Anstalt Jacob Leser ( Straubing ). The superstructure supported on four columns looks like a canopy that is stretched over the altar, giving the altar its name. In the frontal arch of this superstructure is written in Latin: "ECCE TABERNACVLVM DEI CVM HOMINIBVS". (German: "See the tent of God among the people.")
Three angels can be seen on the canopy, one in the middle of each visible side. In addition, Pope Clemens kneels on the front of the canopy with a key and book, and the founder, Prince Leopold, with a sword and scroll. In the center of the canopy there is a small dome, supported by 16 small columns, on which a cross rises. In the middle above the altar table there are two golden double doors with six reliefs that show various stories from the life of Jesus. Below a slightly larger gold relief with the crucifixion of Jesus. A figure of Jesus with the Greek letters Α and Ω is in his hand above the double doors. About it is written in Latin: “The Lord is near”. Above, and thus the highest point of the altar table, is a stone ball on which a lamb with a golden flag and a halo rests. To the left and right of the golden double doors there are three figures each. On the left the figures of Saint Bernard , Louis and Chrysostom . On the right those of Saint Gregory, Thomas Aquinas and Prince Leopold.
The choir is painted in historical style with frescoes by Gebhard Fugel (Munich) , which were created between 1902 and 1904, but were mostly painted over during the renovation in the 1970s.
To the left and right of the choir there are side altars . The Marien altar on the left is the work of the sculptor J. Stolz ( Kaiserslautern ) and was created in 1911, on the right is the Joseph Altar, which was created in 1931 by the architect Anton Falkowski ( Mainz ).
The Way of the Cross on the side walls of the nave was painted in 1911 by Joseph Ripp (Homburg) and restored in 1972 by the painter Heinrich Lau. The cycle is a copy of the Way of the Cross in the parish church of St. Anna (Munich), which was created by the painter Martin von Feuerstein in 1898.
The greatest treasures of the church are two Baroque monstrances , a chalice with a relief of Maria Amalia , the wife of Charles II Augustus Palatinate-Zweibrücken, and her wedding dress made into a smoke cloak.
organ
The Church of St. Michael has two organs , a main organ and a choir organ.
Main organ
The first main organ was built in 1840 by the organ builder Stumm ( Rhaunensulzbach ). In 1922 it was rebuilt by Franz Kämmerer (Speyer). In 1967 the organ was finally dismantled and scrapped. In 1968 the main organ was rebuilt by Hugo Mayer Orgelbau ( Heusweiler ). A new housing made of oak was also built with a free-standing gaming table facing the altar. The instrument has 36 registers spread over 3 manuals and pedal . The wind chests are slide chests with mechanical play and electrical stop action .
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- Coupling : I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Playing aids : two free combinations, crescendo, crescendo from, tutti, individual tongue storage
- Remarks
Special features: very stiff action, especially the coupling
Choir organ
A second organ has been in the church since 1999, which was built in the mid-1970s by Hugo Mayer Orgelbau (Heusweiler). The organ on rollers is usually set up in the front right of the nave. The instrument has 4 registers, the wind chests are mechanical slide chests.
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Bells
The bell ringing of the St. Michael's Church consists of five melodious bronze bells. They were cast in 1953 by the Otto bell foundry in Saarlouis - Fraulautern , which was founded by Karl (III) Otto from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and Aloys Riewer from Saarland in 1953. After their inauguration, the bells were hung in a steel bell cage using steel yokes. In the late 1990s, the community subjected the bell chamber to a restoration. The old belfry was replaced by a new one made of oak. The straight yokes could also be made from the same material. All five bells got new clappers and newly adapted chimes from HEW (Herford electric motor works). To ring in Sunday at 5:00 p.m., the partial ringing usually sounds for five minutes without the large Christ the King bell. The plenum sounds u. a. to solemn celebrations, to wedding services, to the end of the Nikolausmarkt on the last day at around 8:00 p.m. and at the turn of the year (ringing of the old year and the ringing of the new year). The partial motif of the three small bells is intended for weekday masses. The Bernhard bell rings three times a day at 7:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. for the Angelus .
| No. | Surname | volume | Casting year | Foundry, casting location |
Diameter (in mm) |
Weight (kg) |
| 1 | Christ the King | cis 1 | 1953 | Otto, Saarlouis | 1489 | 2040 |
| 2 | St. Mary | e 1 | 1252 | 1216 | ||
| 3 | St. Michael | g sharp 1 | 992 | 614 | ||
| 4th | St. Bernhard | h 1 | 828 | 346 | ||
| 5 | St. Hildegard | c sharp 2 | 731 | 244 |
literature
- Wilhelm Weber : Historical design of the parish church of St. Michael in the years 1841–1931 , Homburger Hefte 1991, Homburg-Saar, 1991.
- Wilhelm Weber: The Catholic Church in Homburg - a building by August von Voit. In: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Realgymnasium Homburg / Saar. 1973.
- Thomas Seiler: The history of the parish of St. Michael in Homburg. In: 150 years parish church St. Michael Homburg / Saar. Anniversary commemorative publication 1841–1991, 1991.
- Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: The churches in the Saar-Palatinate district . Saarbrücken 1987.
Web links
- Literature on St. Michael (Homburg) in the Saarland Bibliography
- Catholic Parish of St. Michael
- Tower recording of the full bells of the Catholic parish church St. Michael in Homburg (video with sound)
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list Saarpfalz-Kreis (PDF; 1.2 MB), accessed on September 4, 2012.
- ↑ a b c Great interest in St. Michael ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2013 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. On: kih.deevine.de (Church in Homburg), originally in Saarbrücker Zeitung , August 19, 2010. Retrieved on June 3, 2012.
- ↑ Parish Church of St. Michael ( Memento from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) On: cms.bistum-speyer.de, accessed on June 2, 2012.
- ↑ Johannes Jackel: Christian obituary of the royal clergyman council and pastor of Ruppertsberg in the Palatinate to the Catholic parish of Homburg, on the occasion of the inauguration of the church allda, on September 29, 1841. p. 6; Digital scan of the speech
- ↑ a b c d e Institute for Current Art in Saarland: Information on the parish church of St. Michael. Retrieved December 18, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c A patron of Christian art Altar in German-Romanesque style . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , March 9, 2012. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
- ↑ Main organ of the Church of St. Michael (Catholic) ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2008 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. , Info page of the Orgeln im Saarland website , accessed on June 3, 2012.
- ↑ Choir organ of the Church of St. Michael (Catholic) ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2008 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. , Info page of the Orgeln im Saarland website , accessed on June 3, 2012.
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here especially 87 to 95, 566 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 105 to 112, 517 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 15.3 " N , 7 ° 20 ′ 27.4" E