St. Paulus (Saarbrücken)

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Malstatt-Rastpfuhl, Catholic Church of St. Paulus

The Catholic Church of St. Paul is a church building in the parish community Saarbruecken Malstatt in the Dean's Office Saarbrücken of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trier and is on the corner Lebacher street / Rhein street in the district of Saarbrücken Malstatt on the Rastpfuhl . It bears the patronage of St. Paul of Tarsus .

history

Emergency Church of St. Paul

Because by the Second World War , Josef Bridge, the top that with the lower Malstatt was joined destroyed, was built for the parishioners of the Catholic Main Church of Malstatt St. Joseph in the northern Malstatt above the railway line a wooden Barack church on the Pariser Platz compared with the current St. Paul Church. In 1959, on the initiative of Pastor Johannes Pütz (parish of St. Josef, born August 29, 1912, † October 13, 1961, chaplain in St. Josef 1939–1942, pastor 1947–1961), the new parish of St. Paul was made up of parts of the community formed by St. Josef, the Franciscan monastery church St. Antonius von Padua on the Rastpfuhl and the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Burbach . The idea of ​​forming a parish went back to the former pastor of St. Josef, Franz-Josef Bungarten (* February 4, 1876, † September 7, 1965, pastor 1919–1936). The church should also serve as a pastoral care center for the Italian guest workers and their families.

Modern church building by Fritz Thoma

The modern church was built between 1959 and 1961 according to plans by the Trier architect Fritz Thoma (1901–1977). The architect had already directed the reconstruction of the war-damaged Josefskirche in Saarbrücken and built the Catholic Church of St. Elisabeth between 1953 and 1954. Since 1945 he was a member of the Episcopal Building Commission of the Diocese of Trier and professor at the local art school. It was also during these years that Thoma provided the west facade of the war-damaged St. Paulus Cathedral in Münster with a controversial rosette, the so-called “God's dial”, and thus caused a sensation in the sacred buildings of post-war Germany.

The large hall church , consciously based on the formal scheme of industrial architecture, was intended to remind of the working world of the people in the residential area. The unusually spacious church building was one of the first in Europe with a sagging prestressed concrete roof .

Remodeling

Since the structure of the building became very difficult over time, the interior of the church was completely changed between 1978 and 1982 under Pastor Beils according to plans by the Dinslaken- born architect Peter van Stipelen. The original bright interior was rottonig verklinkert to achieve a more welcoming impression. The sagging flat roof was replaced by a tent roof. In 2009, the Saarbrücken architects Kraemer & Partner redesigned the weekday chapel.

Demolition of the tower

Due to other structural defects, the Campanile bell tower had to be demolished in 2006 . The architectural peculiarity of the bell tower was that the tower, built on a rectangular floor plan, was open on two sides. The bells of St. Paulus were sold and ring today in Remagen . Instead of the bell tower, four church flags now draw attention to the church.

Parish divisions

In 1999, after the Franciscans left the Rastpfuhl, the two parish communities St. Antonius / St. Paulus and St. Albert / St. Marien formed. In 2004 the parish of St. Josef joined the parish community of St. Antonius / St. Paul added; quasi the mother parish to their parishes. In 2006 these three parishes were merged into a single parish under the name of St. Joseph.

Artistic arrangement

The painter Boris Kleint , who comes from Masmünster in Alsace , designed the window front on the west side of St. Paul's Church in 1961. The 500 m² window front in the basic shade of blue thematizes the Damascus experience of the apostle Paul in a stylized form . Tall narrow windows on the other walls refer to the Song of Songs of Love (1 Corinthians 13) in 1 Corinthians . They were designed by the Trier glass painter Reinhard Heß , who also designed numerous glass windows in St. Josef.

The Trier painter Werner Persy , who also worked in St. Josef, designed the Way of the Cross with paintings using the "oil on wood" technique. The Cologne goldsmith and sculptor Klaus Balke designed the altar cross as a tree of life.

The altar, baptistery and Lady Chapel were designed as islands that interrupt the space of the church. The baptismal font is a symbol of the beginning of Christian development through the water of baptism and reminds us of an opened fruit. A statue of Our Lady made in South Tyrol based on a Gothic model was set up in the free space in the room, designed as an intimate sacred area.

literature

  • Marlen Dittmann: Church buildings of the post-war period in Saarbrücken. The Catholic parish churches of St. Mauritius, St. Pius and St. Paulus. Saarbrücken 2014.
  • Walter Faas: Three islands in the space of the church. St. Paulus in the upper Malstatt enchants with windows by Boris Kleint and many artistic-theological "finger points". In: Saarbrücker Zeitung from 27./28. March 2010, page E1, STV.
  • Katholisches Pfarramt St. Paulus (Hrsg.): Festschrift on the occasion of the completion of the restoration work and the consecration of the organ on the 4th Sunday in Advent December 19, 1982. Saarbrücken 1982.

swell

  • Institute for contemporary art in Saarland, archive, holdings Saarbrücken, St. Paulus (Dossier K 380)

Web links

Commons : St. Paulus (Saarbrücken)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.dekanat-saarbruecken.de/
  2. ↑ Bernd Schikofsky (ed.): Outstanding - surprising. The Church of St. Josef in Saarbrücken-Malstatt. Saarbrücken 2010, p. 44.
  3. ↑ Catholic parish St. Johann Saarbrücken: Our churches , accessed on September 24, 2014.
  4. ↑ Cathedral of Münster: The rotary dial . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1955, pp. 46-48 ( Online - Dec. 14, 1955 ).
  5. ↑ Specialist for sacred buildings: Peter van Stipelen turns 90 today. In: Trierischer Volksfreund. September 15, 2013, accessed April 19, 2019 .
  6. ^ Catholic parish of St. Josef , accessed on September 24, 2014.
  7. ↑ a b Kunstlexikon Saar ( Memento from April 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 24, 2014.
  8. ↑ Bernd Schikofsky (ed.): Outstanding - surprising. The Church of St. Josef in Saarbrücken-Malstatt. Saarbrücken 2010, p. 182.
  9. ↑ Bärbel Schulte: The painter and glass painter Reinhard Heß (1904–1998). In: Bernd Schikofsky (Ed.): Outstanding - surprising. The Church of St. Josef in Saarbrücken-Malstatt. Saarbrücken 2010, pp. 248-258.

Coordinates: 49 ° 14 '48.7 "  N , 6 ° 58' 0.7"  E