St. Nikolaus (Felsberg)
The St. Nikolaus Church is a Roman Catholic church in Felsberg , a district of the Saarland community of Überherrn , Saarlouis district . The patron saint of the church is St. Nicholas . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.
history
Parish
After the official establishment of Felsberg, then part of the Duchy of Lorraine, in 1704, the Catholics living there were assigned to the parish in Berus , whose pastoral care was incumbent on the Premonstratensians of the Wadgassen Abbey . Due to the long distance that the Felsbergers had to travel to attend the service in Berus, they asked the Lorraine Duke and King of Poland Stanislaus I Leszczyński and the Metz bishop Claude de Saint Simon to set up their own parish in 1736 . In return, the Felsbergers promised to build a church and a school . The separation from Berus and the establishment of the independent parish Felsberg finally took place on February 15, 1756. One of the canons of the Wadgassen Abbey continued to perform the parish service from Berus. As a result of the French Revolution and the associated abolition of the Wadgassen Abbey in 1792, Felsberg no longer had a pastor by May 1794 at the latest.
Under Napoleon , church relationships were reorganized at the beginning of the 19th century. Felsberg and Neuforweiler formed a parish from 1808, with Felsberg becoming a branch of Neuforweiler. The status as a branch provoked resistance in Felsberg and attempts were made to become an independent parish again. This striving for independence went so far that in 1816 the pastor of Neuforweiler was refused entry to the Felsberg church. Only after the mayor , the teacher and the sexton of Felsberg were threatened with imprisonment , the church was made accessible to the Neuforweiler pastor again.
The dispute over parish rights escalated after Felsberg was assigned to the Diocese of Trier in 1821 . It finally culminated in the departure of the Felsberg parish from the Catholic Church and the conversion to the free religious parishes of German Catholicism on June 21, 1863. The trigger for the exit was the previous year when Trier Vicar General Matthias Martini threatened to forbid church services in the Felsberg branch church . Before that, the Felsbergers had carried out their own baptisms and burials since 1861 , held their own church services (after the church key had been forcibly removed from the pastor), and had no longer blessed marriages in Neuforweiler and no longer allowed the children to attend religious instruction.
The dispute over parish rights in Felsberg, which had belonged to the Prussian Rhine Province since 1815 and was close to the border with France , caused unease among the government in Berlin . In order to end the dispute, the government approved the establishment of a new parish in Felsberg. The departure of the parish Felsberg from the Catholic Church was withdrawn after five months and at the beginning of 1865 Bishop Leopold Pelldram, newly elected by the Trier Cathedral Chapter, visited the place and promised the re-establishment of the parish. Pelldram's successor as Bishop Matthias Eberhard finally rebuilt the Felsberg parish on February 28, 1868. The pastor of Neuforweiler was initially responsible for the pastoral care of the re-established parish. Felsberg received its first pastor in 1893.
With effect from September 1, 2007, the parishes and parishes of St. Matthias (Altforweiler), St. Martin (Berus) and St. Nikolaus (Felsberg) were merged to form a parish and parish with the name of St. Oranna Überherrn . Parish church of the newly established parish was St. Matthias in Altforweiler.
Building history
The previous building of today's church was consecrated on May 5, 1765. It was in today's cemetery . The church suffered destruction during the French Revolution.
On June 29, 1898 the foundation stone was laid for today's church, which was built according to plans by the architect Wilhelm Hector ( Saarbrücken-St. Johann ). In 1901 the church was completed.
Architecture and equipment
The church building was built in the neo-Gothic style and is divided into a tower with a pointed helmet , which is followed by a nave and a five-sided polygonal choir . The nave is a rectangular hall , divided into four bays with ribbed vaults .
The church is equipped with a carved Gothic high altar as well as a Gothic altar with a statue of the Guldner Mary . The two wooden figures of St. Nicholas and St. Hubert come from the previous church.
organ
The organ of the church was built between 1904 and 1912 by the company Mamert Hock ( Saarlouis ). The cone chopping instrument with pneumatic playing and stop action has 12 (13) stops , distributed over 2 manuals and pedal . The disposition is as follows:
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Pairing :
- Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
- Sub-octave coupling: II / I
- Super octave coupling: II / I
Web links
- Parish of St. Oranna, Altforweiler - Berus - Felsberg
- Literature on St. Nikolaus (Felsberg) in the Saarland Bibliography
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 May 22, 2014
- ↑ a b c d e f Information at: www.sankt-oranna.de, accessed on May 22, 2014
- ↑ Certificate on the establishment of the parish and parish of St. Oranna Überherrn on: cms.bistum-trier.de, accessed on May 22, 2014
- ↑ a b Information on the St. Nikolaus Church at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on May 22, 2014
- ↑ St. Nikolaus, Felsberg on: www.nacht-der-kirchen-saar.de, accessed on May 22, 2014
- ↑ a b organ of the cath. Church of St. Nikolaus Felsberg On: www.organindex.de, accessed on July 8, 2014
- ↑ The organs of the Mamert Hock Orgelbauanstalt On: www.trierer-orgelpunkt.de, accessed on May 22, 2014
Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 29.7 " N , 6 ° 41 ′ 27.5" E