St. Michael (Körprich)

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St. Michael (Körprich), tower front

The Church of St. Michael is a Roman Catholic parish church in Körprich in the Saarland , a district of Nalbach , Saarlouis district . The church bears the patronage of the Archangel Michael . It is assigned to the diocese of Trier . As part of the 2020 structural reform in the Diocese of Trier, the Nalbach parish community was established on September 1, 2011 with the independent parishes of St. Peter and Paul in Nalbach, St. John the Baptist in Piesbach , Herz Jesu in Bilsdorf and St. Michael in Körprich.

Michael's Chapel

Körpricher chapel, altarpiece in mosaic technique
Korprich, Michaelskapelle
Korprich, chapel, interior
Körprich Chapel, inner portal wall with historical rulers' coats of arms and panels of the soldiers of Körprich who were killed in the world wars

history

In the Middle Ages, the Körprich Chapel, which is dedicated to the Archangel Michael, was the second largest religious building in the Nalbach Valley after the Nalbach parish church. The chapel built on a hillside, which was first mentioned in 1330 in the Taxa generalis subsidiorum cleri Trevirensis , gave the present day Körprich (polished form of "Kirchberg") its name. The Körprich Chapel was a building that was dependent on the Nalbach mother parish of St. Peter and Paul .

A privilege assured the Korprich believers that the Nalbach pastor had to hold a mass in the chapel there on certain public holidays and on Easter Monday and on Michaelmas.

In 1897 the nave of the Michael's Chapel was enlarged to double its length. From this point on, the pastor from Nalbach or his chaplain held a mass there every Sunday and on certain working days. It was not until February 1921 that Körprich received its own pastor and on April 1, 1922, he was promoted to a chapel parish . Since the enlarged chapel was no longer sufficient for the population of Körprich, which had grown due to industrialization, plans began to build a new parish church.

In 1934, the Schoenstatt Movement on the Saar converted the chapel into a pilgrimage church. A mosaic of the Mater Ter Admirabilis was therefore placed above the altar . Every year on Ascension Day a candlelight procession was organized and a meeting of the Schoenstatt youth in October .

In the years 1958 to 1960 the interior design of the chapel was completed again: sgraffiti were attached to both sides of the choir arch, which were replaced with wooden sculptures during the renovation between 1985 and 1987. The names of the sons of Körprich who were killed in the two world wars were affixed as sgraffiti on the longitudinal walls of the chapel during the design campaign in the late 1950s. Since then, the coats of arms of the historic lords of the Nalbach Valley have been placed above the entrance door.

In 1987 the original chapel bell from 1898 that Pastor Jakob Woll gave to a Catholic diaspora community on the Lahn after the Second World War was returned in exchange for a replacement service.

In the years 1985 to 1987 the Körprich chapel was extensively renovated and the interior was also redesigned. The entrance wall was designed to commemorate those who died in the two world wars of the 20th century with four name boards and two crosses. The sgraffiti in the nave was removed at that time.

Today there are no more regular masses in the old chapel. It serves as a place of worship and memorial for the fallen of the two world wars of the 20th century. The Way of the Cross initiated on March 7, 1993 by the mayor Heinrich Eisenbarth ends at the chapel. The street to the Kreuzweg was named "Heinrich-Eisenbarth-Weg" in 2008. The carver was Ernst Breuer.

Architecture and equipment

The chapel is a plastered quarry stone building. The small Körprich sacred building rises on a protruding hill of the Hoxberg, the Kirchberg, which gives the place its name, and was surrounded by graves until the 20th century. The chapel is 18.40 m long and 6.35 m wide. The nave has four axles and is lit by simple baroque windows. The ornamental glazing is modern. On the west side is the arched entrance portal with wooden portal wings and romanized metal fittings from the end of the 19th century, when the chapel was expanded. The gable opens in a simple round window.

The structure of the chapel tower is still medieval. In 1657 it was renewed because of the risk of collapse. The tower rises in the northeast corner between the nave and the rectangular choir. It is not structured and has small rectangular sound openings. It is covered with a slate four-sided buckled helmet. The sacristy is built on the side of the apse opposite the tower.

The Nalbach pastor Johann Wilhelm Jodokus Koettingen (term of office: 1747–1783), who also renovated the Nalbach church, had the nave rebuilt in 1774. The keystone of the choir arch reminds of the initiator of the renovation with its inscription: “+ 1 + 7 + 7 + 4 + IWIOD. KÖTT = INGEN.DECA = NUS.PAS = TOR + "

Choir arch inscription from 1774
Chapel interior with the sgraffiti by Arnold Mrziglod, which was later removed

The sgraffiti flanking the choir of St. Veronica with the kerchief of Jesus (left) and St. Michael (right), which were made by the church painter Arnold Mrziglod (1921–1984), who moved from Upper Silesia in 1958 , were later removed. In their place there are currently baroque wooden sculptures. Mrziglod also designed the archangel picture still preserved today in the Körprich school (building currently used as a kindergarten building).

Inside the chapel are the coats of arms of the historical Körprich aristocratic lords above the entrance portal: v. l. No. the cross of Kurtrier , the lion of Electoral Palatinate , the mutilated eagles of the Duchy of Lorraine , the zigzag bar with the tournament collar of the Lords of Siersberg-Dillingen and the red bar in gold, accompanied by red shingles from Messrs. Hagen zum Motten .

The altarpiece is a mosaic copy of the miraculous image of Mater Ter Admirabilis , the original of which (Refugium Peccatorum Madonna) was made by the Italian painter Luigi Crosio (1835–1915) in 1898. In the lower left area of ​​the mosaic is the abbreviation of the mosaic layer with an intertwined "E" and "P".

In the list of monuments of the Saarland Michael chapel is a single monument listed.

Parish Church of St. Michael

Parish church of St. Peter and Paul, mother church and design model of the Körprich parish church

history

Today's parish church “St. Archangel Michael “was built by Pastor Leo Montada at some distance from the Michael's Chapel and inaugurated at the St. Michael's Festival in 1926. The laying of the foundation stone took place on May 2, 1926. The astonishingly short construction time is explained by the fact that the building materials could be delivered directly from the Korprich brickworks. The elevation of the church to the parish church did not take place until 1928. The architects of the Körprich church were the architectural associations Prior & Casel from Trier and Ludwig Becker & Anton Falkowski from Mainz . The war damage, which occurred particularly as a result of the artillery bombardment by the US Army in the war winter of 1944/1945, was repaired by 1954 under the aegis of Pastor Woll. New bells had already been wound in the summer of 1952 and a tower clock was installed in 1954.

architecture

The brick building, largely made of bricks from the former Körprich brickworks, is a four-bay hall with gothic pointed arches and an expansive transept on a cross-shaped floor plan . The space is structured by pilasters and belt arches. The transept arms are divided into three bays by pillars and are lower in height than the main nave. The groin vault of the transept arms and the belt arches end on wall brackets. The choir has moved in and closes in an arched segment. The west tower with a baroque slate dome is placed in front of the ship. It is largely based on the architectural design of the tower of the Nalbach mother church and its bell chamber (three in front, two windows on the side), but ends at the top of the tower in a baroque onion dome. The architectural similarities to Nalbach can be explained by the fact that Becker & Falkowski almost simultaneously expanded and redesigned the Nalbach parish church. The decoration focuses on the entrance facade on the tower. Here, an aedicula in front of the tower with larger than life sandstone figures of a crucifixion group enhances the sacred character of the building and connects to historical structures with a triumphal arch motif . Bright stone cornices stand out effectively from the red brick masonry from Körprich. The building from the 1920s is already breaking away from historicism and, as a building of abstraction historism , is a testimony to the transition phase to modernity.

  • Tower of the Church of St. Michael in Körprich

  • Portal aedicula with crucifixion group

  • Exterior view of the apse

  • Layout

  • Interior of the church with a view of the apse

  • St. Michael (Körprich), tabernacle

  • Apse window "The Birth of Jesus"

  • Apse window "The Holy Family"

  • Interior of the church with a view of the entrance and the organ gallery above

Furnishing

In the church there is a Pietà under which the builder of the church, Pastor Leo Montada, is buried. The side altar of the left transept is dedicated to the Virgin of Fatima , the side altar of the right transept to Saint Joseph . The triumphal arch of the apse is painted with the symbols of the four evangelists and the apocalyptic lamb . On the pillars that lead from the transept to the choir arch are statues of the Archangel Michael and Saint Barbara of Nicomedia . In the slightly raised chancel , which was modified in 1963, there are three stained glass windows above the high altar , which (from left to right) show the Holy Family , the Archangel Michael fighting the dragon of Satan and the birth of Christ . The other windows in the nave and transept show Marian symbols and invocations of Mary from the Lauretan litany . The doors of the tabernacle depict two pigeons on the left, quenching their thirst at a spring, and two lambs on the right in front of a column surrounded by a crystalline halo. The pictures of the Way of the Cross are copies of the Führich Way of the Cross from the first half of the 19th century. Joseph von Führich , academy professor in Prague, Vienna and Rome and an important representative of sacred painting in the countries of the Habsburg monarchy , designed the originals in 1834 for the church on St. Laurence Hill in Prague . The widespread use of these Stations of the Cross motifs can be explained by the fact that, from 1836 onwards, Führich's originals were copied from copperplate engravings and numerous painters used these as a template for their crossroad panels. The artists of these copies are mostly unknown.

organ

In the church there is a renovated historic organ from the Lorraine organ builders Haerpfer & Erman ( Boulay ) from 1930. Originally the organ was planned for a church in France, but it was destroyed during the French campaign . Therefore, the instrument was sold to Körprich in 1942. Thomas Gaida ( Wemmetsweiler ) restored the organ in 2003.

The cone shop instrument is set up on a gallery and has 15 stops , divided into two manuals and a pedal . The playing and stop action is pneumatic. The disposition is as follows:

I Grand Orgue
1. Montre 8th'
2. Flûte à bouchée 8th'
3. Salicional 8th'
4th Cor de chamois 4 ′
II Récit expressif
5. Bourdon 16 ′
6th Flûte harmonique 8th'
7th Gamba 8th'
8th. Voix céleste 8th'
9. Flûte octaviante 4 ′
10. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Flûte champ. 2 ′
12. Plein jeu III
13. Trompette harmonique 8th'
tremolo
Pedale C – f 1
14th Sousbasse 16 ′
15th Flûtebasse 8th'
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I
    • Super octave coupling: II / I

Bells

In 1873 the Mabilon bell foundry in Saarburg produced two bells (a´, dis´´) for Körprich. In 1898 Mabilon again delivered two bells (f´´, 115 kg and g´´, 86 kg). The Otto bell foundry in Hemelingen near Bremen manufactured a bell (fis, Ø 114 cm) in 1910. In addition, Otto cast four more bells in 1935 (1060 kg, Ø 125 cm; 780 kg, Ø 112.5 cm; 560 kg, Ø 100 cm; 305 kg, Ø 84 cm). The bells from 1935 were requisitioned for war purposes in 1940. In 1952, Causard cast two bells (g sharp, 682 kg, Ø 101 cm and a sharp, 501 kg, Ø 91 cm) for Körprich in Colmar, Alsace .

Pastor

On February 1, 1921, Körprich was separated from Nalbach as a separate pastoral care district and on February 20, 1921, the previous Nalbach chaplain, Nikolaus Schillo, was solemnly introduced into his office. The elevation to the chapel congregation took place on April 1, 1922. Until 1926, the service took place in the Michaelskapelle. The elevation of the new Michaelskirche to the parish church took place in 1928.

  • Nikolaus Schillo: 1921–1924
  • Leo Montada: 1925-1927
  • Josef Körbes: 1927–1939
  • Jakob Woll: 1939–1980, honorary citizen of Körprich since October 16, 1969
  • Willi Neurohr: 1980–1984
  • Herrmann Josef Kirsch: 1984–1991
  • Erich Fuchs: 1991-2000
  • Wolfgang Goebel: 2001–2011
  • Manfred Plunien (parish administration): since 2011

graveyards

Körprich, cemetery

In the Middle Ages, all the dead in the village of Körprich were buried in the Nalbach churchyard. Burials at the Korprich Michaelskapelle took place for the first time in the years 1695 to 1705, when Körprich, which was the furthest from the Nalbach parish church of all Nalbach valley communities, was striving for greater church independence from Nalbach. When the Gothic Nalbach church was demolished in 1762 in favor of a new baroque building and the Nalbach churchyard was therefore not verifiable, all the dead in the Nalbach valley were buried in the churchyard of the Körprich chapel for four weeks. Afterwards, however, the Nalbacher Kirchhof was used again until 1867. A plan to bury the dead from Körprich and Bilsdorf in a common cemetery failed in 1866. As a result, the cemetery around the Korprich Michaelskapelle was reopened in Körprich. After the cemetery could not be re-occupied in 1915 due to lack of space, a new cemetery was set up on Lebacher Strasse. A morgue was built here in 1973 to lay out the dead. In 1949 almost all of the graves in the churchyard around the Michael's Chapel were leveled. The historic tombstones were also destroyed.

Web links

Commons : St. Michael (Körprich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Michaelskapelle Körprich  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Taxa generalis subsidiorum cleri Trevirensis, in: Trierisches Archiv, 8, 1905, pp. 1-52.
  2. ↑ Georg Colesie: Geschichte des Nalbacher Tales, Eine Saarländische Heimatgeschichte, 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, p. 43.
  3. ↑ Saarforschungsgemeinschaft (Ed.): The art monuments of the Ottweiler and Saarlouis districts, edited by Walter Zimmermann, 2nd, unchanged edition from 1934, Saarbrücken 1976, p. 220.
  4. ↑ Georg Colesie: Geschichte des Nalbacher Tales, Eine Saarländische Heimatgeschichte, 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, p. 190.
  5. ↑ Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbacher Tales, Eine Saarländische Heimatgeschichte, 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, pp. 236-239.
  6. ↑ Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbacher Tales, Eine Saarländische Heimatgeschichte, 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, pp. 236-239.
  7. ↑ Information on the St. Michael Chapel at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on April 4, 2015
  8. ↑ Georg Colesie: Geschichte des Nalbacher Tales, Eine Saarländische Heimatgeschichte, 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, pp. 237 and 252.
  9. ↑ Saarland biographies
  10. ↑ Dieter Lorig: Heinrich Eisenbarth honored. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung . March 18, 2008.
  11. ^ Walter Zimmermann (editor): The art monuments of the Ottweiler and Saarlouis districts, published by the Saar Research Association, Düsseldorf 1934, 2nd, unchanged edition, reprint Saarbrücken 1976, p. 220.
  12. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list of the Saarlouis district ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), accessed on April 4, 2015
  13. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Hans Peter Buchleitner: Cultural Reconstruction in the Saarland, 1945–1955, A text and picture work, Volume I, Reconstruction, new and extension of churches, chapels, monasteries, parish and youth homes, community houses etc. in the state capital as in the districts of Saarlouis and Merzig-Wadern, Saarbrücken 1955, p. 79.
  15. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacral Buildings of Classicism and Historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 268, 517.
  16. ↑ Kristine Marschall: Sacral Buildings of Classicism and Historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, pp. 282, 503, 620.
  17. ↑ Körprich - Life on the River in Nalbach's youngest district On: www.entdecke-koerprich.de, accessed on April 4, 2015
  18. ↑ Cornelia Hagn and Paul Huber: The Passion Cycle in the cloister of the Altöttinger collegiate parish church St. Philippus and Jakobus, in: Denkmalpflege Informations, ed. from the Bavarian State Office for Monument Protection, No. 163, March 2016, pp. 31–37.
  19. ↑ Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: Historical Organs in Saarland, Regensburg 2015 S. 220th
  20. ↑ Josef Still u. a .: Restoration of the Haerpfer organ, in: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History, 56, 2004, pp. 522–524.
  21. ↑ a b Organ of the parish church St. Michael Körprich On: www.organindex.de, accessed on April 15, 2019.
  22. ↑ Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: The bells of the Saarland, Saarbrücken 1997, p 120th
  23. ↑ Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbacher Tales, Eine Saarländische Heimatgeschichte, 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, pp. 238-239.
  24. ↑ http://pfarierendengemeinschaft-nalbach.de/index.php , accessed on November 4, 2016.
  25. ↑ George Colesie: History of Nalbacher Tales, a Saarland local history, 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990, pp 227-228.

Coordinates: 49 ° 23 '23.8 "  N , 6 ° 50' 11.1"  E