St. Peter and Paul (Beaumarais)

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The Church of St. Peter and Paul in Beaumarais
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View inside the church
View to the organ gallery

The Church of St. Peter and Paul is a Catholic parish church dedicated to the apostles and church fathers Simon Petrus and Paulus von Tarsus in Beaumarais , a district of the Saarland district town Saarlouis . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.

history

The first church in Beaumarais, a place that owed its establishment to the city and fortress of Saarlouis by the French King Louis XIV in the years 1680–1683, was built between 1690 and 1691. The church building, which was designed by the director of the Saarlouis fortress, served as the successor to the destroyed church in Wallerfangen . The place Wallerfangen almost completely fell victim to the construction of the Saarlouis fortress. The entrepreneur La Liberte and the carpenter Pierre Edet were responsible for the construction. The building material came from the demolished church in Wallerfangen. On June 29, 1692, the new sacred building was inaugurated. The parish of Beaumarais with the Picard branch was, like Wallerfangen, assigned to the parish of Kirchhofen ( Fraulautern ). In the course of the 18th century, the parish of Beaumarais gained independence. A few years after the church was built, it was extended by adding side aisles.

The events of the French Revolution led to the closure of the church from 1794 to 1798 and Beaumarais was part of Wallerfangen as a branch. By the concordat between the French state and the Holy See , the independence of the parish Beaumarais was restored at the latest in 1802.

Dilapidation , caused by the swampy ground and poor construction, was the reason why the church had to be closed a second time in 1839. The year before, the church tower had to be torn down.

In the same place as the first church, a new church building was erected between 1840 and 1847, the design of which came from the district architect Birk. The long construction time is due to the fact that the construction of the church tower, which was already up to the ridge height of the new building, could only be completed in 1847 after the tower had collapsed. The services took place during construction in 1840 in a chapel in Beaumarais.

In 1884 the church underwent a total renovation and was given new fittings, which was made by Mrs. von Salis-Halden, née. de Galhau was funded. The previous furnishings in the baroque style of the 18th century were removed, with the high altar in the church of St. Antonius in Werbeln . The remainder went up for auction and went into private ownership. The renovation, which included a gallery with a cast-iron spiral staircase , was carried out in the neo-Romanesque style according to plans by the architect Jacquemin from Metz . In addition, the arched windows were provided with Romanesque tracery .

Another renovation of the church took place in 1954. The last renovation, in which the requirements of the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council were implemented, and the associated redesign of the chancel, was headed by architect Hoffmann in 1975.

Architecture and equipment

The parish church in Beaumarais was built as a classicist hall church and its essential components have not been changed since then. The current church is about three times the size of the previous church. It lies parallel to the foundations of the previous building, as excavations in 1973 have shown. The church building is divided from west to east into the steeple with a pointed helmet and the four-axis nave , which is closed off by a three-sided polygonal choir that takes up the entire width of the nave .

Today's furnishings go back to a large extent to the total renovation in 1884. These include three altars made of Carrara marble designed by architect Jacquemin (Metz). The statues on the altars and the two relief images that flank the tabernacle in the high altar were created by Georg Wagner ( Trier ), who was also responsible for the Way of the Cross . During the renovation in 1954, some of the structures were removed from the altars. The three paintings, one above the high altar and two on the side walls of the nave, come from the Wadgassen Abbey and were restored in 1954 after being discovered in a coach house and installed in the church. In the entrance of the church there is a statue of St. Sebastian , which could have been made at the beginning of the 19th century.

organ

The organ of the church was built in 1958 by the Ernst Seifert company ( Bergisch Gladbach ). The Kegelladen instrument has 24 stops , divided into 2 manuals and pedal . The pitch is 440 Hz. The temperature (tuning) is equal. The action mechanism is electro-pneumatic, the stop action is electric. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Hollow flute 8th'
4th Gamba 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th flute 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. octave 2 ′
9. Mixture IV-VI 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
11. Lovely Gedackt 8th'
12. Salizional 8th'
13. Praestant 4 ′
14th Soft flute 4 ′
15th Schwiegel 2 ′
16. Nasat 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Zimbel III 2 ⁄ 3 ′
18th oboe 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
19th Sub-bass 16 ′
20th Octave bass 8th'
21st Thought bass 8th'
22nd Chorale bass 4 ′
23. Octave flute 2 ′
24. trombone 16 ′
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I
  • Playing aids : 1 free combination, tongues off, tutti, crescendo roller

Bells

In 1954, the Saarlouiser bell foundry in Saarlouis-Fraulautern, which was founded by Karl (III) Otto from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and Alois Riewer from Saarland in 1953, cast three bronze bells for the church in Beaumaris with the chimes: cis ′ - dis ′… e ′. The bells have the following diameters: 1523 mm, 1357 mm, 1281 mm, and weigh: 2340 kg, 1660 kg, 1444 kg.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list Mittelstadt Saarlouis ( Memento of the original from August 9, 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 March 7, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarland.de
  2. ↑ Once upon a time ... in Wallerfangen ..., historical overview of the area of ​​today's municipality Wallerfangen On: www.wallerfangen-typo3.de, accessed on March 7, 2015
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Karl Heinz Glessner: The 322 year history of the Beaumarais Church on: www.kirche-saarlouis.de, accessed on March 7, 2015
  4. ^ Organ of the Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Saarlouis-Beaumarais On: www.organindex.de, accessed on March 7, 2015.
  5. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, in particular pages 89-95, 567 .
  6. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially pp. 105–112, 517 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

Coordinates: 49 ° 19 ′ 3.9 "  N , 6 ° 43 ′ 29"  E