St. Michael (St. Ingbert)

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The Church of St. Michael is a Roman Catholic to the St. Michael dedicated parish church in St. Ingbert . In the list of monuments of the Saarland the church building is a single monument listed.

Parish Church of St. Michael , St. Ingbert
The tent-shaped church building
View inside the church
Organ prospectus

history

The church was built between 1964 and 1967 according to plans by the architect Hanns Schönecker (St. Ingbert). The inauguration took place on October 15, 1967.

Architecture and equipment

The basic shape of the church building is an octagon , above which a roof in the form of a tent rises. The shape of the tent was chosen consciously because the church is supposed to symbolize the tent of God on earth. The architecture refers to the following passage from the Revelation of John in the New Testament :

“Then I heard a loud voice calling out from the throne: See, God's dwelling among men! He will dwell in their midst, and they will be his people; and he, God, will be with them. He will wipe all the tears from her eyes: there will be no more death, no sorrow, no lament, no hardship. Because what was before is gone. He who sat on the throne said: See, I am making everything new. "

- ( Rev 21,3-5  EU )

Christ as the center of the community is symbolized by the semicircular arrangement of the pews around the altar .

The glass painter Ferdinand Selgrad ( Spiesen-Elversberg ) created the glass window walls in 1964, the sculptor Horst Linn ( Homburg ) the portals in the same year .

Under the church there is the Pirminius Chapel with a relic of St. Pirminius .

organ

The organ of the church was built in 1978 by the organ builder Paul Ott ( Göttingen ). The instrument, which is set up on a gallery and has a free-standing console , has 21 registers distributed over two manuals and a pedal . The wind chests are mechanical sliding chests with an electrical register action .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Wooden flute 8th'
3. Octave 4 ′
4th Open flute 2 ′
5. Mixture IV-V
6th Trumpet 8th'
II Positive C-g 3
7th Reed flute 8th'
8th. Black viola 8th'
9. Principal 4 ′
10. Coupling flute 4 ′
11. Octave 2 ′
12. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
13. third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
14th Sif flute 1'
15th Scharff IV
16. Schalmey 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
17th Sub bass 16 ′
18th Octave bass 8th'
19th Tube bare 8th'
20th Choral bass 4 ′
21st bassoon 16 ′

Bell jar

The church has received the earlier parish bell from Schnappach as a loan bell from the city of St. Ingbert. This example of the clock casting master Gustav Schuler from Zweibrücken originates from the year 1868. The now listed bell survived the two world wars without major damage. Today it only rings for church services.

No. Nominal Casting year Foundry, casting location Diameter
(cm) 		inscription
1 c 2 1868 Gustav Schuler, Zweibrücken 75 PROPERTY OF THE SCHNAPPBACH MUNICIPALITY CASTED BY GUSTAV SCHULER 1868.

literature

  • Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: The churches in the Saar-Palatinate district . Saarbrücken 1987.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments in the Saarpfalz district (PDF; 1.2 MB) List of monuments of the Saarland; Retrieved July 30, 2012
  2. ↑ a b Information on the parish church of St. Michael. kunstlexikonsaar.de; Retrieved July 30, 2012
  3. ↑ a b c d e The parish church of St. Michael . ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) st-pirmin-st-michael.de
  4. ↑ a b St. Pirmin and St. Michael, St. Ingbert ( Memento from January 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) On: cms.bistum-speyer.de, accessed on July 30, 2012
  5. ↑ Organ of the Church of St. Michael (Catholic) ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Information page of the Orgeln im Saarland website , accessed on July 30, 2012

Coordinates: 49 ° 17 '27.9 "  N , 7 ° 8' 5.9"  E