St. Michael (Wemmetsweiler)
The parish church of St. Michael is the Catholic village church of Wemmetsweiler (Saarland). It was built from 1898 according to plans by the Saarbrücken architect Wilhelm Hector in neo -Gothic style and was consecrated on July 20, 1903 to the Archangel Michael and the fourteen helpers in need. In the list of monuments of the Saarland the church building is a single monument listed.
history
There is evidence of a church building in Wemmetsweiler since the middle of the 17th century. The chapel, consecrated to the Fourteen Holy Helpers, stood in the lower part of the village and served the believers in the area as a place of worship for more than 200 years. After the foundation stone was laid for a new church, the chapel was demolished in 1901. Its altar is now in the new church.
Not far from the location of the Vierzehn-Nothelfer-Kapelle, Wilhelm Hector built a neo-Gothic building in accordance with the taste of historicism . In addition to the old sacristy , Otto Eberbach added a new one in 1918. The church, which originally belonged to the parish of Illingen, became its own parish in 1908. An extensive renovation took place in 1977/78, during which the interior was fundamentally redesigned.
During drilling in 1992, a tectonic fault under the church was discovered, which occurred as a result of the coal mining . The church building was inclined by up to 86 centimeters over a length of 50 meters and had to be closed. In the same year, security work began to save the sacred building, which was completed by 1995. A reinforced concrete beam foundation , which rests on a total of 75 elastic bearings, has since secured the church against mining damage. The construction company TKP Paul Krächan ( Uchtelfangen ) was responsible for carrying out the work . During the security work, the Maria Königin church , which was demolished in 1996, served as an alternative church to which St. Michael's sacred objects were also relocated.
Furnishing
The center of the church interior, marked by a large chandelier, has been a celebration altar since the late 1970s. The high altar in the choir shows the condemnation of Jesus before Pilate , the Sermon on the Mount , the multiplication of bread and the adoration of the kings . The church fathers Hieronymus and Ambrosius (left) as well as Gregory and Augustine (right) accompany the altar on the predella . Two other altars are dedicated to the Fourteen Holy Helpers and the Virgin Mary.
In the course of the last renovation, a new way of the cross was purchased, which is attached to the two side walls of the nave . It is modeled on the Way of the Cross in the Johann Nepomuk Church in Vienna , which was created by Joseph Führich between 1844 and 1846 . In the 1990s, when the church was redesigned, a wraparound tapestry was created to complement the vaulted decoration.
High altar
Fourteen Holy Helpers Altar
Mary Altar
organ
The church organ was built in 1903 by the company EF Walcker & Cie. ( Ludwigsburg ) built as Opus 1101. When it was built, the instrument had 27 registers , divided into two manuals and a pedal, and had the following disposition :
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Super octave coupling: I, I / P
- Playing aids : Collectivpedal f Tutti u. Coppel, General Crescendo a. Decrescendo effect by means of roll sills for the whole plant
In 1986 the organ was rebuilt by the company EF Walcker GmbH & Co. KG ( Hanweiler ), in which the cone shop was switched to the grinding shop and the disposition was changed. Instead of 27, the instrument now had 29 (31) registers. In 2006 another renovation was carried out by Gerhard Walcker-Mayer ( Bliesransbach ). The organ is set up on the gallery and has a free-standing console . The action mechanism is mechanical, the stop action is electrical. The disposition is as follows:
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- Pairing : II / P, III / P
- Playing aids : 2048 typesetting combinations
Bells
In 1924, the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen cast three bronze bells with the chimes e ′ - f ′ - g ′ for St. Michael. Two bells were melted down in World War II, only one bell, probably the smallest of the three, survived the war. In 1954, the Saarlouiser bell foundry in Saarlouis-Fraulautern, which had been founded by Karl (III) Otto from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and Aloys Riewer from Saarland, cast two bronze bells with the chimes a ′ and h for the Michael’s Church ′.
literature
- Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland . Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 3-923877-40-4 .
- König, Martin: 100 years of the Catholic Church in Wemmetsweiler. Wemmetsweiler 1999.
- Bauer, Erhard: Catholic parish church St. Michael Wemmetsweiler: Festschrift for the reopening on April 30, 1995. Saarbrücken 1995
Web links
- Parish of St. Michael Wemmetsweiler
- Parish community Merchweiler - Wemmetsweiler
- Catholic parish church St. Michael, Wemmetsweiler
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list of the city of Neunkirchen ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. (PDF; 1.3 MB), accessed on July 12, 2014
- ↑ Parish Church of St. Michael on: www.merchweiler.de, accessed on August 22, 2012
- ↑ a b c Information on the parish church of St. Michael at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on July 12, 2014
- ↑ a b Gerd Meiser: Church on spring packages - Wemmetsweiler and its very special church . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , 12./13. July 2014.
- ↑ The parish on: www.st-michael-wemmetsweiler.de, accessed on 22 August 2012 found.
- ↑ The parish church of St. Michael on: www.kakigem.de, ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ a b c Organ of the Church of St. Michael (Catholic) ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been 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 August 22, 2012
- ↑ a b The Walcker organ in the Catholic Church of St. Michael, Wemmetsweiler ( 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; 1.6 MB) At: www.walckerorgel.de, accessed on August 22, 2012
- ↑ a b The organ of the parish church of St. Michael On: www.organindex.de, accessed on July 12, 2014
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 87 to 95, 525, 556 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here especially 105 to 112, 488, 517 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 21 ″ N , 7 ° 4 ′ 50.5 ″ E