St. Peter (Theley)

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St. Peter
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The Church of St. Peter is a Roman Catholic parish church dedicated to St. Peter in Theley , a district of the Tholey community in the St. Wendel district , Saarland . It belongs to the deanery St. Wendel and thus to the diocese of Trier . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.

history

The parish of Theley was first mentioned in 1330 in the Taxa generalis , a directory of ecclesiastical property of the Archdiocese of Trier. Theley has been the seat of a priest since at least 1569, which was determined by the abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Mauritius in Tholey until 1624 . From 1624 this right lay with the Bishop of Trier.

Between 1716 and 1759 a new church was built, which was expanded in 1808. Since the building had become too small for the many people attending the service and had many defects, it was decided in 1890 to demolish the church and replace it.

The new church was designed by Wilhelm Hector in the neo-Gothic style as a three-aisled hall church based on early Gothic models . The foundation stone was laid on October 5, 1890 . The completed church was benedicated on June 6, 1892 by Dean Querbach. On July 4, 1895, the church was consecrated by the then Trier Bishop Michael Felix Korum .

As the congregation continued to grow, the church was expanded in 1966 by one aisle on each side. In this form, it still presents itself today as a five-aisled hall church.

Bells

In 1954, the Saarlouiser bell foundry in Saarlouis-Fraulautern cast three bronze bells with the chimes for the St. Peter's Church in Theley: es ′ - f ′ - as ′. The bells have the following diameters: 1305 mm, 1163 mm, 978 mm and weigh: 1380 kg, 975 kg, 575 kg.

organ

organ

The first organ was built in 1894 as Opus 669 by the company EF Walcker & Cie. built. It had 23 registers .

In 1975 the decision was made to build a new organ, which was carried out by the Mayer company from Heusweiler . The result was a baroque two-manual instrument with 22 registers. The organ has the following disposition :

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Wooden flute 8th'
3. Octave 4 ′
4th Dumped 4 ′
5. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th flute 2 ′
7th Third whistle 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
8th. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Trumpet 8th'
Cymbelstern
II swell positive C – g 3
10. Dumped 8th'
11. Principal 4 ′
12. Reed flute 4 ′
13. Salicet 2 ′
14th Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
15th Cymbel III
16. Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
17th Sub-bass 16 ′
18th Octave bass 8th'
19th Wooden dacked 8th'
20th Chorale flute 4 ′
21st Mixture III 2 ′
22nd bassoon 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids : 2 free combinations, 1 free pedal combination, crescendo roller

literature

  • Catholic Church Choir Sankt Peter <Theley>: 150 years of the Catholic Church Choir “St. Peter Theley ”. Theley 2008.
  • Maria Hoffmann: 100 years of the parish church of St. Peter Theley. Theley, 1992.
  • Old churches in new splendor: Parish Church of St. Peter in Tholey-Theley. 1991.

Web links

Commons : St. Peter (Theley)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list of the district of St. Wendel ( Memento of the original from April 8, 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. (PDF), accessed on August 21, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarland.de
  2. ↑ a b c d Detailed history of the parish on: www.kirche-am-schaumberg.de, accessed on August 21, 2014
  3. ^ 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 especially 87 to 95, 567 .
  4. ↑ 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 in particular pp. 195 to 112, 517 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  5. ^ Opus list of the Walcker company ( MS Excel ; 1.3 MB)
  6. ↑ The organ on OrganIndex

Coordinates: 49 ° 29 '55.8 "  N , 7 ° 1' 24.4"  E