St. Nikolaus (Orscholz)

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The Catholic parish church of St. Nikolaus in Orscholz
View inside the church
View of the organ prospect

The Church of St. Nikolaus and St. Hubertus is a Roman Catholic parish church in Orscholz , a district of the municipality of Mettlach , Merzig-Wadern district , Saarland . The church bears the patronage of St. Nicholas and St. Hubertus as secondary saints. The sacred building is listed as an individual monument in the Saarland's list of monuments.

history

Before the current church building was erected, a chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas , which had been built around 1560, served the Orscholz Catholics as a place of worship . Orscholz was assigned to the parish of St. Martin in Tünsdorf as a branch . The tithe had the lords of Meinberg, the Orscholz pastor of Tünsdorf and the Jesuits in Trier payable.

In 1734 the Nikolauskapelle was rebuilt, in which a vicar held services on Sundays and holidays . However, to celebrate the high feasts and baptisms of children , the people of Orscholz still had to visit the church of the mother parish in Tünsdorf.

In the course of the political changes that were triggered by the French Revolution , Orscholz in Lorraine became part of the Moselle Department, established in 1790, and was assigned to the diocese of Metz . In 1802 Orscholz was raised to a Sukkursal parish (auxiliary parish ) in the canton of Sierck and separated from the mother parish of Tünsdorf. After the end of French rule in 1815, however , the name Sukkursal parish was no longer in use. In 1827 the parish of Orscholz was assigned to the dean's office Perl in the diocese of Trier .

Since the chapel, built in 1734, no longer met the needs of the growing parish, it was decided to build a new place of worship. This happened in the years 1830 to 1831. The plans for the new parish church, which was again dedicated to St. Nicholas and St. Hubertus as the second patron, came from the builder Peter Bentz (Trier).

Due to the population growth , the new parish church had become too small at the beginning of the 20th century. It was therefore decided to expand the existing church building by adding an extension to the northwest. The architectural office Huch und Grefges ( Koblenz ) was responsible for the plans for the extension. The old building now served as a sanctuary . The church was partially destroyed in World War II. The reconstruction work after the war took place in 1946 according to plans by the architect Fritz Thoma (Trier). Between 1969 and 1974 the church was restored and the chancel was rebuilt under the direction of the architect Herbert Hermann (Trier).

Architecture and equipment

While the original church from the 1830s was a four-axis classicist hall building with a round choir closure , which was preceded by a tower with a hood , the extension from the 1920s was designed as a three-aisled basilica with a roof turret in neo-baroque style. The old building with the tower was retained during the expansion and has served as a chancel ever since. Since 1946, as a result of the destruction of the war, the extension has been presented as a single-nave hall with four window axes and without a turret. The extension has an chor similar cultivation, inside by a catenary separated from the rest of the building part, of the leaflet of the organ receives.

The church's furnishings include four stone sculptures from 1865, created by the sculptor Johann Bohr (Tünsdorf). Saint Nicholas, Saint Hubertus, Christ the high priest and teacher and a pelican from the first tabernacle of the church are depicted . Between 1990 and 1992 the sculptures were restored by restorer Martin Mrziglod (Tholey).

The Hungarian-German architect and church window painter György Lehoczky ( Saarbrücken ) made two windows measuring 300 × 150 cm from the years 1954-55, showing Saint Wendelin and Saint Laurentius . Willi Kurz and Rudolf Wank were responsible for the execution of the windows.

In the chancel there is a Manderscheid baroque altar with a figure of the Queen of Heaven above the tabernacle. The altar was purchased in 1970.

The organ of the church was built in 1976 by the Eduard Sebald company ( Trier ). The slider chests -instrument has 20 registers , spread over two manuals and pedal . The action mechanism is mechanical, the stop action is electric.

literature

  • Marschall, Kristine: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland . Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 978-3-923877-40-9 , p. 666 .
  • György Lehoczky working group (ed.): György Lehoczky, 1901-1979 . St. Johann GmbH, Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken 2010, ISBN 3-938070-49-8 , p. 176 ( galerie-st-johann.de [accessed on September 7, 2012]).

Web links

Commons : St. Nicholas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments in the district of Merzig-Wadern ( Memento of the original dated May 2, 2014 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), accessed on July 9, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarland.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e On the history of the Catholic parish Orscholz On: www.teil2.orscholz-saar.de, accessed on July 9, 2014
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Information on the parish church of St. Nikolaus and St. Hubertus at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on July 9, 2014
  4. ↑ The organ of the parish church of St. Nikolaus in Orscholz On: www.organindex.de, accessed on July 9, 2014

Coordinates: 49 ° 30 ′ 15.7 "  N , 6 ° 31 ′ 33.2"  E