St. Peter and Paul (Nalbach)

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Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul, tower front
St. Peter and Paul, view from the Piesbacher Straße to the church in the valley

The parish church of St. Peter and Paul and St. Hubertus is a Catholic parish church in the Saarland community of Nalbach , Saarlouis district . It bears the main patronage of Peter and Paul ( June 29 ) of the apostles Simon Peter and Paul of Tarsus . Second saint is St. Hubertus whose memorial the 3. November 's. The sacred building is listed as an individual monument in the Saarland's list of monuments . The church is assigned to the diocese of Trier . Since 2011 the Catholic parish of St. Peter and Paul has been combined with the parishes of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Bilsdorf , St. John the Baptist in Piesbach and St. Michael in Körprich to form the Nalbach parish community.

History of the parish Nalbach

middle Ages

The Nalbacher church was the only church in the Nalbacher valley until the Dieffler branch church St. Josef and St. Wendelin was built in the years 1899-1900 and its elevation to the parish church in 1919. In all other villages of the Nalbacher valley there were only chapels. The parish church of St. Peter and Paul is the mother church of the six surrounding villages of the Nalbach Valley: Diefflen , Piesbach with Bettstadt, Bilsdorf and Körprich , the Nalbach settlement of Bierbach and also the historical, submerged settlements of Heuchlingen, Theter, Heisterbach and Heynschiet. In the Middle Ages there was a court linden tree in front of the church , under which the annual wisdoms were decided by the Nalbacher Jahrgedingen .

Nalbach, which was first mentioned as a parish in the 11th century, belonged in the Middle Ages to the archdeaconate of St. Mauritius Tholey and to the dean's office or district chapter of Merzig in what was then the Archdiocese of Trier . The Petrus Patronage (fisherman patron) could point to the emergence of Nalbach as a fishing settlement on the then fish-rich Prims . A reference to the Petrus patronage of the Trier cathedral is also conceivable. The Petrus or Petrus and Paulus patronage counts to the typical Franconian patronage of the Saarland. The area of ​​the Nalbach Valley was originally an imperial territory before it became the Electorate of Trier .

A donation from Archbishop Eberhard of Trier in 1048, a letter of protection from Heinrich III. from 1098 and a letter of protection from Pope Hadrian IV. from 1154, as well as by acquiring the rights of the Nalbach knight family in 1331, the St. Simeon Abbey in Trier in the Nalbach Valley had the basic jurisdiction , the right to levy taxes and the right to fill the parish. The Trier ore monastery still held the middle and high jurisdiction. In exercising jurisdiction, the archbishopric was represented by the barons of Hagen zu Motten .

The medieval church of the Gothic era had three aisles and a higher central nave. A tower was added to the choir on the south side and a sacristy on the north side. The church is said to have been about 22.70 m long and 13.25 m wide.

Immediately next to this church, in the direction of the Prims, was the churchyard of the entire Nalbach Valley. The second largest religious building in the Nalbacher Valley was the Körpricher Michaelskapelle, mentioned in a document since 1330, from which Körprich (ground down form of "Kirchberg") gave its name. The Körprich Chapel was, like the today destroyed Dieffler Wendelinskapelle in Kirchenweg (today Nalbacher Straße), a building that was dependent on the Nalbacher mother parish.

A privilege assured the Korprich believers that the Nalbach pastor had to hold a mass in the local chapel on certain public holidays and on Easter Monday and Michaelmas.

Diefflen had its own small chapel , which was located on the Kirchenweg to Nalbach (today: Nalbacher Straße No. 103). The inhabitants of the small village gathered here for prayer and occasionally masses were read. The age of this chapel is uncertain. The patron saint was St. Wendalinus . A document from the Abbey of St. Peter and Maria in Mettlach from 1488, which is itself a copy of a document from 1460, names Pope Pius II , who appointed the Mettlach Abbey of Senis in Sardinia with the appointment of the clergyman for Diefflen commissioned:

Pope Pius II approves and confirms to the Mettlach monastery all collations of churches and chapels that are “attached to us (meaning the Mettlach Abbey), as well as villages and tithes, farms and goods that are enumerated in the bull. Given to Senis in the second year of our pontificate in 1460. "

The right of collation referred to the right to propose a candidate when filling a new spiritual office. Often monasteries or monasteries had the right of collation for pastoral positions in their pastoral care area. Usually this proposal had to be confirmed by one or more higher authorities, usually the respective bishop or sovereign . Likewise, the collator could not decide on a final investiture . The right of collation was tied to further connections to the respective parish office. The collator was often obliged to take care of the structural maintenance of the church building in question. The document from 1460 was drawn up at the request of the Mettlach abbot Wilhelm von Helmstett, who was in dispute with noblemen over tithe and property rights.

In addition to Diefflen, 13 other places with churches or chapels were named. It remains unclear whether Mettlach Abbey held the service in Diefflen in a residential building, a barn or in an existing chapel.

Modern times

Baroque new building

Nalbach, St. Peter and Paul, memorial plaque for pastor Johann Wilhelm Jodokus Koettingen

The medieval Nalbach church was examined in 1756 because it was in disrepair by the builders from Merzig, Joseph Rieff and Lorentz Walch. In 1760, the master builder Martin Rieff delivered the plan to build a new church in Nalbach and began with new construction work. However, at the objection of pastor Johann Wilhelm Jodokus Koettingen, Rieff's work was stopped. Apparently they were planning to change the building plans to a cross-shaped church. It was not until 1764 that the Trier builder (Johann) Peter Pauli († March 18, 1777) created a new plan. Then a new single-nave church with a tower in front was built in the years 1765 to 1767 under the local construction management of the Piesbach master mason Peter Manquin, also Mangin (June 30, 1728– January 18, 1785). This church building is still preserved in the nave of the current church. It extends roughly to the point where the celebration altar stands today. A marble grave slab (87 cm × 168 cm) with a Latin inscription, which has been preserved, reminds of the builder of the baroque church building:

"IN MEDIO CHORI GLORIOSAM RESURRECTIONEM EXSPECTAT PLNUM RDUS AMPLISSIMUSQUE DD JOAN WILH. JODOCUS KOETTINGEN WISSENAE AD SIGAM PATRE RODERICO KOETTINGEN MATRE CATHARINA GROOS NATUS 1712 THE 16TH (OCTO) BRIS, FACTUS PRESBYTER 1737 THE 21st (SEPTEM) BRIS, PASTOR IN NALBACH 1747 THE 24TH JUNII, DECANUS MARCETANUS. 1060 THE 10TH, 1760 DENATUS 1783 THE 9TH FEBR. MANE MEDIOLEASING (SEPTUAGESIM) AE IN VITA Ecclesiam HANC REAEDIFICAVIT, Sacellum IN KIRPERICH E RUINIS EXSTRUXIT, domum pastoral NOVAE Aedis constructione AUXIT, COLLAPSA parochia IURISDICTIONALIA VINDICAVIT BINA ANNIVERSARIA PRO SE SUISQUE DE FAMILIA HIC SEPULTIS FUNDAVIT IN COMMISSIONIBUS CONSISTORIALIBUS ET EPISCOPALIBUS PERSPICUUS ET INDEFESSUS eruditione Religionis STUDIO MORUM SUAVITATE LIBERALITATE CLERI DECUS ET GLORIAE DIVINAE PROPAGATOR. RIP "

The translation of the inscription reads:

“In the middle of the choir awaits the glorious and respected Mr. Johann Wilhelm Jodokus Koettingen from Wissen an der Sieg , son of Roderich Koettingen and Katharina Groß, born on October 16, 1712, ordained a priest on September 21, 1737, pastor in Nalbach on June 24, 1747, dean of Merzig on April 10, 1760, died early on February 9, 1783 at the age of 70. In his life he rebuilt this church, had the chapel in Körprich rebuilt from ruins, expanded the rectory by building a new building, restored the legal order in a parish that was on the ground and donated for himself and his Family members buried here two annual memories. He was knowledgeable and tireless in the consistories and the episcopal commissions. Through his education, his zeal for religion, as well as his amiable manner and the generosity of his character, he was an ornament of the clergy and spread divine glory. May he rest in peace. "

Upheavals caused by the French Revolution

The Nalbach Valley came under French rule during the French Revolution in 1794 and became part of the Saar Department . Through the Concordat signed by Napoleon with the Church of July 15, 1801 , supplemented by the Organic Articles of April 8, 1802, the parish came to the newly founded Diocese of Trier and thus to the Archdiocese of Mechelen in today's Belgium. With the Congress of Vienna , the Nalbach Valley became part of the Kingdom of Prussia and was ecclesiastically assigned to the diocese of Trier in the bull " De salute animarum " on July 14, 1821. At first the parish was assigned to the Saarlouis deanery, and from 1869 to the Lebach deanery. The parish of Nalbach was around 1800 with 1540 people larger than that of the neighboring parish Dillingen / Lenten with 1150 people.

Growth of the parish through industrialization

After the population of the Nalbach valley had grown rapidly in the course of industrialization in the 19th century and the church burned down in 1891, the Nalbach church was rebuilt and enlarged several times (1828 and 1890). The tower was raised and a transept was added. A further enlargement of the Nalbach parish church was no longer possible without further ado, as there was a cemetery around the church and the surrounding residential and commercial buildings would have been affected by a possible expansion.

Construction of a new cemetery in Fußbachstrasse

Because of the lack of space in the old cemetery that surrounded the parish church, a new cemetery was opened by the Nalbacher pastor , with the consent of Trier Bishop Matthias Eberhard. Inaugurated by Caspar Ramers on September 6, 1868. The new cemetery served as a burial place for the villages of the Nalbach Valley (Nalbach, Diefflen, Piesbach, Bettstadt and Bilsdorf). In Korprich the dead were buried in the local chapel cemetery. In the east corner of the new cemetery, a walled area with its own entrance was delimited, which was used for the burial of non-Catholics. Another walled area, which had been left without a blessing, was used to bury people who were refused a church burial.

  • Branch establishment in the Nalbach Valley

  • Neo-Gothic parish church of St. Josef and St. Wendelin, Diefflen, around 1900

  • Bilsdorf, old chapel

  • Körprich, church tower

  • Piesbacher Church

Parish of Diefflen

In 1895 the Wendalinus Chapel in Dieffler was thoroughly renovated again and received a new bell. It was only demolished in 1904 after the Dieffler parish church was completed.

On June 4, 1865, the Nalbach church council dealt with the plan to build its own church in Diefflen. When Diefflen had become the numerically strongest municipality in the Nalbach Valley, alongside Nalbach, with over 1700 inhabitants, the matter became more and more urgent.

After a large meeting of all Dieffler heads of households on November 7th, 1897, the church council under Pastor Lamberty decided on November 14th to buy a building site for the new Dieffler church and the new parsonage to be built. In order to deal with the matter more quickly, a church building association was founded and the Nalbach church board members Johann Bach and Johann Thiery from Diefflen were given a general power of attorney for church building.

On January 1, 1898, the church council in Nalbach decided to purchase 63 ares of building land for 2,515.96 marks. On January 20, 1898, the episcopal authority in Trier approved the building project. Exactly one month later, on February 20th, the various construction plans were examined. A church building project by the architect Wilhelm Hector from Roden was selected, who at that time was building numerous churches in the near and far area. Hector was the busiest church architect of historicism in Saarland and presented many designs at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The excavation work began on January 16, 1899, and the ritual "first groundbreaking" ceremony in honor of St. Joseph took place on March 13, 1899 on the building site.

The foundation stone was laid on May 4th as part of a grand ceremony. The church to be built was awarded the title "Patrocinium Sancti Josephi" (Protection of St. Joseph) by the Nalbach pastor Lamberty. As a second patron, the patronage of St. Wendalinus was taken over from the old chapel. On May 25, 1900, the branch church was consecrated. The survey as an independent parish did not take place until New Year's Day 1919.

Parish of Korprich

In Körprich, the nave of the Michaelskapelle was extended to double its length in 1897. From this point on, the pastor from Nalbach or his chaplain held a mass there every Sunday and on certain working days. It was not until February 1921 that Körprich received its own pastor and on April 1, 1922, he was promoted to a chapel parish. Since the enlarged chapel was no longer sufficient for the population growth of Körprich, a new church was built by Pastor Leo Montada some distance from the Michael’s Chapel and consecrated at the Michael’s Festival in 1926. It was not raised to a parish of its own until 1928. The architects of the Körprich Church were the architectural associations Prior & Casel from Trier and Becker & Falkowski from Mainz.

Parish of Bilsdorf

In 1891, on the initiative of Johann Didas from Bilsdorf, a fundraising campaign was started in Bilsdorf to enable the building of a chapel. For this purpose, the congregation provided a plot of land "on the Hübel" on which a place of worship had already been located. In the new chapel, the Nalbach pastor and his chaplain held mass on two days of the week. In 1921 Bilsdorf became an external chaplain of Nalbach. A rectory was built in 1921–1922. In 1939 Bilsdorf was raised to the rank of vicarie. In 1946, Bilsdorf became a parish with its own property management. As a result, the old chapel was demolished in 1949 and the current church built in its place by 1951, designed by architects Heinrich Latz and Toni Laub. It was not until 1958 that it was separated from the mother parish in Nalbach, and in 1961 it was elevated to a parish.

Parish of Piesbach

A small chapel had existed in Piesbach since the 18th century. A church building association was founded before the First World War . The outbreak of war made a new building impossible. That is why the village inn Hartmann was converted into an emergency church. From 1920 the former inn was used for the Sunday mass and two weekday masses. In the years 1922–1924 a new church was built by the Becker & Falkowski architects from Mainz. In 1922, Piesbach and Bettstadt were separated from Nalbach as the parish vicarie. The elevation to the parish took place in 1927. The old Piesbach chapel from the Baroque period had meanwhile been converted into a residential building and demolished in 1979.

Parish community Nalbach

In September 2011 the parishes of St. John the Baptist (Piesbach), St. Michael (Körprich), Herz Jesu (Bilsdorf) and St. Peter and Paul (Nalbach) were merged to form the Nalbach parish community. The rectory in Nalbach serves as the rectory of the parish community. Pastor Manfred Plunien, deacon Herbert Altmaier and parish officer Anne Haan were responsible for pastoral care and administration of the parish community when the Nalbach parish community was founded. The pastoral care team was supplemented in 2015 by the co-operative Pastor Ralf Hiebert.

In 2017 the parish celebrates the 250th anniversary of the completion of the baroque church building in 1767.

architecture

Dimensions

  • Width of the nave: 11.00 m
  • maximum length of the transept: 22.70 m
  • maximum width of the transept from west to east: 11.60 m
  • Length of the transept arms from the crossing to the outside: 6.00 m
  • maximum vault height in the nave: 8.70 m
  • maximum vault height in the crossing: 11.00 m
  • Inside length of the church from the tower hall to the apse: 46.00 m
St. Peter and Paul (Nalbach), after the construction of the two transepts in the neo-Romanizing style in 1891-1892 by Wilhelm Hector
Side view of the Nalbach parish church after the renovation in the years 1891-1892 by Wilhelm Hector
View into the interior of the church with a wrought-iron wheel chandelier installed in 1977 above the celebration altar
Design drawing for the reconstruction of the church by Becker and Falkowski

The simple baroque four-axis church hall in Nalbach, which still exists today, was built in the years 1764–1767 according to plans by the master builder Peter Pauli from Trier. In the years 1891-1892, due to population growth - the church also served the communities of Diefflen , Körprich , Piesbach and Bilsdorf as a parish church - an extension was built by the Roden architect Wilhelm Hector . A projecting two-aisled transept was added to the previous building and the previously two-story baroque tower was raised in neo-Romanesque forms. The flat-roofed interior was colorfully painted in the historicist style.

According to the plans of the Mainz architects Ludwig Becker & Anton Falkowski , the Hector's transept was reduced to a nave again in 1927 and a sacristy was built. Pilaster strips were placed on the walls and the flat ceiling was replaced by a vault. The width of the building in the ship is 11 m and the length 40.60 m.

The transept is attached to the simple four-axis hall from the Baroque period with two large arched windows. The groin vaulted choir is lower in height than the barrel vaulted nave in 1927 and closes off on three sides.

The crossing is pendentively vaulted with a monastery vault and is illuminated by a large wheel chandelier with a crucifix in the center . The corresponding assistant figures of Maria (left) and Johannes (right) are on the pillars of the choir arch. The triumphal arch that connects the nave and the crossing is decorated with painted angels. They hold a banderole with the inscription "Sanctus, Sanctus" (holy, holy) and thus point to the acclamation of the angels in the calling vision of the prophet Isaiah (6,3 EU ) as well as a messianic greeting from Ps 118,25f. EU / Mt 21,9  EU , which is related here to the Eucharistic presence of Christ in the altar event.

The vault of the ship opens to the windows in stitch caps. The arching of the transept arms was done with flat transverse barrels and is summarized in the corners on thin services. The front wall of the transepts is divided in two by shield arches on pilasters.

The use of uniform pilasters as well as the similar vaulting, coordinated in the design by the architects Ludwig Becker and Anton Falkowski, give the interior of the church a uniform, baroque-like effect, despite the different, widely spaced construction phases.

The tower is in the middle of the ship. The design of the lower tower floors clearly shows the time of origin in the 18th century. The free floors of the tower with glare passes, twin and triple windows with set columns as acoustic arcades date from the time of the neo-Romanesque elevation.

Church furnishings

  • Apse with the Baroque high altar from 1949/1950

  • Church window in the apse, Jesus hands Peter the keys of the kingdom of heaven, Mt 16,18  EU

  • Stained glass window, The Hirschwunder of St. Hubertus of Liège

  • Holy water font-bearing devil from the Mettler sculpture workshop in Morbach

  • Mary Altar

  • Hubertus altar

Church window

The historicist church windows in the apse depict the two patrons of the Nalbach parish church:

  • Left of the high altar: Jesus gives Peter the keys of heaven ( Mt 16 : 18-19  EU ), the inscription on the window reads: "Dedicated by the married couple Matthias Werny and Maria Franziska Schaefer, Nalbach 1897."
  • Right of the high altar: Pauli's conversion at the gates of Damascus ( Acts 9,1-18 EU ), the inscription on the window reads: "Dedicated by the young men of  the parish Nalbach 1897"

Another stained glass window in the apse depicts St. Hubertus von Lüttich and the Hirschwunder represent. According to the inscription, the windows in the nave were made in 1981. The Trier company Binsfeld created the glazing of the nave windows. The windows on the female side (on the left of the entrance) depict the following female saints (from the entrance towards the apse): St. Cäcilia of Rome with organ , St. Agnes of Rome with lily and palm branch and St. Anna with her daughter Maria. The windows on the male side (from the entrance on the right) depict the following male saints (from the entrance towards the apse): St. Aloisius of Gonzaga , St. Konrad von Parzham and St. Joseph of Nazareth with a carpenter's ax and the baby Jesus.

Sculptures and furniture

St. Peter and Paul (Nalbach), mission cross from 1858 on the side of the tower portal of the church

On the walls of the nave there are the following statues of saints on the left of the entrance towards the apse:

On the walls of the nave there are the following statues of saints on the right of the entrance towards the apse:

In the two arms of the transept there are neo-Gothic relief panels with the stations of the cross . The baroque side altar in the right transept represents St. Hubertus of Liège, above in the gable area of ​​St. Paul. The baroque side altar in the left transept depicts Mary with the child as an apocalyptic woman, above St. Peter. Next to the sacristy door there is a plaque commemorating the first sacrifice of the Nalbach martyr priest Jakob Anton Ziegler on August 20, 1922 in the parish church of St. Peter and Paul.

The sculptures of the high altar from 1949/1950 with columns, C-curves and carved flower vases depict the Holy Trinity in a baroque style. The cafeteria and altar stipes are flanked by tall rectangular paneling fields, on whose cranked cornices two carved vase-reliefs filled with flowers are arranged in Rococo style . The front of the altar table shows a pelican sacrificing himself for his three boys as a symbol of divine love and as a reference to the sacrifice of the Mass and the resurrection of the dead. According to the Physiologus , an early Christian animal compendium, the pelican opens its own breast with its beak, lets its blood drip onto its dead young and brings them back to life.

In the middle above the cafeteria there is a double-door tabernacle adorned with gold relief with an expositorium niche above. The wing doors of the exposure niche, decorated with a gold-colored lattice relief, are surrounded by consoles on which cheerful putti angels have taken their places. The Holy Trinity is affixed to the altar extract . The depiction shows the enthroned figures of the aged father (right) and the young son (left) on the clouds of heaven. While God the Father lifts his right hand powerfully, he holds a golden scepter in his left hand as a symbol of rule over space. Jesus Christ with the wounds of the crucifixion is only clothed with a golden cloth as the risen one, points with his left hand to his side wound as a sign of his devotion and blesses the viewer with his right hand. The Holy Spirit is centered above it in the form of a dove floating down in a halo. Flanking, amber-colored marbled pairs of pillars with composite capitals frame the scene and carry bolstered cornices, which in turn form the basis for a swinging frame structure of C-curves and S-shaped double-volute curves arranged in pairs. The spatial highlight of the altar extract is a cartouche with a diamond-shaped field.

The high altar from the post-war period replaces a neo-Romanesque shrine altar from 1893 with a crucifixion group, which was donated by parishioner Matthias Werny. To the left of the baroque high altar is a baroque statue of St. Nicholas of Myra on the wall , and to the right of the high altar is a statue of St. Joseph of Nazareth with the baby Jesus.

A large, simple, modern chandelier with 16 lamps hangs down from the crossing vault, the center of which is a large crucifix. Thematically related to the crucifixion group, the crucifix is ​​complemented by the statues of the Virgin and Mother of God Mary and the disciple John attached to the apse pillars. The modern ambo was designed by the sculptor Heinz Oliberius from Northern Bohemia . Next to the Peter window in the apse is a statue of the apostle Matthias . The hexagonal baroque pulpit with the depictions of the four evangelists (perhaps from the Guldner workshop in Berus) was converted into an ambo. The confessionals from the 18th century on both sides of the tower entrance are in the baroque style. Directly in the tower entrance there is a holy water font under the gallery, which is held by a wooden, stooped devil. It comes from the Mettler workshop in Morbach . The gallery parapet is designed in neo-Romanesque style. In the modern folk altar, baroque grave crosses are embedded on the front and back.

Vasa sacra

In the possession of the parish is a sun monstrance decorated with tendrils (height: 64.5 cm), which was made around 1800. Angels wielding a censer and a representation of God the Father appear between the rays. Four round pictures of the evangelists are attached to the foot.

In addition, the parish church has a copper-silver-plated cross reliquary (around 1800), a silver-gold-plated chalice with a lid in rich rocaille work from 1763 (height: 24.5 cm), a copper-gold-plated chalice with a rose petal base (height: 22 cm) and silver measuring jugs Internal gilding on a silver plate. The measuring jug service, an Augsburg silver work, shows the marriage coat of arms of Johann Wilhelm Ludwig von Hagen and his wife Anna Maria von Eltz (both buried in the Lebach parish church Heilige Dreifaltigkeit and St. Marien ) with the year 1731. The Hagensche measuring jug service became the parish in Nalbach Stolen during World War II and has not been found since.

organ

View to the organ gallery
Organ prospectus

From 1860 to 1974 there was an organ built in 1860 by Heinrich Wilhelm Breidenfeld ( Trier ) in the church . The originally single-manual instrument was expanded and rebuilt in 1948 by Julius Reimsbach ( Wallerfangen ) with a second manual for cone chests. The first manual ( Hauptwerk ) and the pedal had slide chests . The number of registers was 19.

Today's organ was built in 1974 by Hugo Mayer Orgelbau ( Heusweiler ) using the historic case of the Breidenfeld organ from 1860. The Rückpositiv was made anew. The slider chest instrument has 23 registers, divided into 2 manuals and pedal. The action mechanism is mechanical, the stop action is electrical. The disposition is:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Dumped 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Hollow flute 8th'
4th Gamba 8th'
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Salicional 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Octave 2 ′
9. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Trumpet 8th'
II Rückpositiv C – g 3
11. Dumped 8th'
12. Praestant 4 ′
13. Reed flute 4 ′
14th Sesquialter II
15th recorder 2 ′
16. Octavlein 1'
17th Scharff IV 2 ⁄ 3 ′
18th Dulcian 16 ′
19th Krummhorn 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
20th Sub bass 16 ′
21st Octave 8th'
22nd Open flute 4 ′
23. bassoon 16 ′

Bells

In 1891, the Mabilon bell foundry in Saarburg cast a bronze bell weighing 713 kg for the Nalbach bell tower. In 1905 this bell was supplemented by three bells (d´, 1225 kg; g´, 559 kg; a´, 380 kg) by Andreas Hamm's bell foundry in Frankenthal . The bells from Frankenthal were requisitioned in the First World War. In 1921 the parish acquired four cast steel bells (d ', f', g ', a') from the Bochum association . In 1951, the Paccard bell foundry (Fonderie Paccard) in Annecy replaced the previous Bochum a 'bell with a b' bell with a diameter of 85 cm. So three steel and two bronze bells are hung on the bell floor of the church tower. The current overall disposition of the five-part bell is: d ', f', g ', b', c ".

Pastor

St. Peter and Paul (Nalbach), rectory opposite the church, built in 1910/1911 by the Dieffler contractor Franz Schwarz in the style of so-called Heimatschutz architecture , a further development of historicism
Nalbach, Hubertusstraße, statue of Johannes Nepomuk in the front garden of the rectory
Nalbach, rectory garden, "Bible garden" of the parish of St. Peter and Paul
Nalbach, parish home "Jakob-Ziegler-Haus" of the parish of St. Peter and Paul
Former sister house in Nalbach with a Gothic stepped gable on the corner of Hubertusstrasse and Etzelbachstrasse, built in 1878 as a residential and commercial building by Matthias Werny, transferred to the parish in 1909, demolished in 1977 for the benefit of the Litermont pharmacy, photo Corpus Christi 1917

A complete list of pastors in Nalbach has only been documented since the end of the Middle Ages:

  • until 1460: Johann Wassenberg
  • 1460-1464: Johannes Mull
  • 1664–1493: Nikolaus Honrait (after being lost in a legal process against the residents of Körprich, Honrait had to read a mass every 14 days in the Körprich St. Michaelskapelle.)
  • 1493–1494: Matthäus de Schoeneck
  • 1494–1500: Gerardus de Gondringen
  • 1500–1500: Johann Urg (death in the year of taking office)
  • after 1500: Nikolaus de Schuppingen
  • until 1576: Johann Reinart
  • 1576–1590: Matthias Vitensis
  • 1590–1627: Jakob Rodenmacher (alleged conversion to Protestantism and holding Protestant services in the Körpricher St. Michaelskapelle)
  • 1627–1630: Caspar Jungmann (transfer at his own request in 1630)
  • 1630–1635: Georg Turck (Turck fled from the Swedes in autumn 1635 / parish vacancy until 1643 / parish care for the parish from Dillingen pastor Hecker)
  • 1647–1677: Matthias Jansen (refusal to worship in Körprich due to the lack of chasuble there)
  • 1677–1679: Johann Scholand (refusal to worship in Körprich / holding three masses per year in Körprich)
  • 1679–1687: Johann Habscheid (in an epileptic fit, Habscheid fell into an open fire in Piesbach and died of the burns / Habscheid's cooperator Egidius Ronvall was transferred because of alcoholism and replaced by vicar Johann Manderscheid.)
  • 1688–1713: Johannes Coenen (I), (attachment of the first church registers in 1688, today in the registry office in Nalbach, in disputes over the masses in the Körprich St. Michaelskapelle, Coenen wins the legal process against the Körprich residents)
  • 1713–1747: Johann Wilhelm Mentges
  • 1747–1783: Johann Wilhelm Jodokus Koettingen (builder of today's Nalbach church, Koettingen's burial in the Nalbach church)
  • 1783–1807: Johannes Coenen (II), (during his tenure, Nalbach became a succursal parish in the canton of Lebach during the French occupation)
  • 1807–1834: Matthias Kimmer (extension of the Nalbach church building in 1828)
  • 1834–1855: Johann Baptist Nothumb
  • 1855–1870: Kaspar Ramers (construction of the sacristy and expansion of the parish archive)
  • 1870–1887: Reinhard Jakoby
  • 1887–1890: Anton Eul (destruction of the church tower and bells in a fire in 1890; reconstruction of the tower and construction of a transept)
  • 1897–1901: Johann Lamberti (construction of the Dieffler branch church St. Josef and St. Wendelin)
  • 1901–1908: Peter Palzer
  • 1908–1920: Wilhelm Schröder (establishment of a sister monastery in Nalbach, 1912–1974)
  • 1920–1935: Richard Meffert (dissolution of the Nalbach parish; all villages in the Nalbach valley become their own pastoral care districts, only: Nalbach, Bierbach and the Saarwellingen station district on the left of the Prims belong to the old parish of Nalbach)
  • 1935–1949: Josef Jungbluth
  • 1949–1975: Josef Loris
  • 1975–1976: Parish administrator Willi Neurohr
  • 1976-1981: Leo Simon
  • 1981–1992: Hermann Josef Kirsch
  • 1993-2007: Bernd Schneider
  • 2008 ad multos annos: Manfred Plunien

Chaplains

The following chaplains worked in Nalbach since 1870:

  • before 1870: Johann Baptist Büdinger and Karl Josef Schuller
  • around 1885: Chaplain Anheier
  • 1891– ?: Chaplain Wagner
  • 1898–1901: Michael Rausch
  • 1899–1900: Peter Kolbusch
  • 1900–1909: Richard Brenner (thereafter vicar in Diefflen until 1914)
  • 1901–1904: Franz Schreiber
  • 1902–1903: Nikolaus Duplang
  • 1903–1908: Peter Jürgens
  • 1908–1910: Jakob Weisenahl
  • 1909–1910: Peter Jünker
  • 1910–1911: Alfons Elcheroth
  • 1911–1918: Johann Hurt
  • 1911–1912: Matthias Jacobs
  • 1912–1913: Matthias Laros
  • 1913–1917: Peter Gerhards
  • 1917–1918: Wilhelm Spang
  • 1918–1921: Nikolaus Schillo (parish vicar in Körprich until 1924)
  • 1918–1921: Bernhard Brand (from 1921 to 1935 first pastor of Piesbach)
  • 1921–1924: Jakob Cornelius
  • 1922–1924: Josef Schuler
  • 1924–1927: August Alt
  • 1927–1932: Richard Mohr
  • 1932–1933: August Klein
  • 1934–1937: Alois Fuchs
  • 1937–1940: Karl Manderscheid
  • 1940–1941: Ludwig Gillen

Tombs in the church

In the Nalbach church, after its new baroque building (1765–1767) under Pastor Johann Wilhelm Jodokus Koettingen (term of office 1747–1783), the following people were buried:

  • Adam Schamper († August 5, 1748), Hobmeier of the St. Simeon Abbey, buried in the choir of the church (1749)
  • Johann Peter Gross († February 2, 1750), a maternal relative of Pastor Koettingen, citizen of Cologne (1750)
  • Katharina Koettingen b. Gross († February 7, 1752 at the age of 78), mother of Pastor Koettingen, born in Wissen an der Sieg, buried at the foot of the Hubertus Altar (1752)
  • Anna Katharina Augustin (December 20, 1731 to April 3, 1752), daughter of the hobbyist Peter Augustin, because of her "modesty and excellent virtues buried in front of the Marien Altar" (1752)
  • Anna Spurk (* before 1688 until April 9, 1760), widow of the high court manger Nikolaus Bauer (1760)
  • Peter Jost (April 16, 1760), from Diefflen, "a well-bred and extremely capable young man" (1760)
  • Peter Augustin (born March 5, 1705, † October 28, 1761) from Diefflen, Hobmeier of the St. Simeon Abbey, father of Anna Katharina Augustin (see above), (1761)
  • Juliana Koettingen, born in Wissen an der Sieg († February 7, 1752), sister of the pastor, buried in the choir near the pulpit (1763)
  • Nikolaus Müller (born February 11, 1691, † April 3, 1764), until 1764 Müller at the Bettstadter Mühle, church alderman, "a peaceful, pious and excellent man of 70 years" (1764)
  • Johann Jakob Schamper († August 20, 1764), vicar in Nalbach, buried in the choir by the old door in the tower, (1764)
  • Nikolaus Dehe († February 20, 1781), 1754 Müller in Dillingen, 1769 Müller in Bettinger Mühle, from around 1772 Bannmüller of the St. Simon Monastery, (1781)
  • Magdalena Koettingen, born in Wissen an der Sieg, sister of Pastor Koettingen, married. with Johann Dörner (brother of Joseph Ignaz Dörner, professor of the medical faculty in Trier), († February 3, 1782), (1782)
  • Pastor Johann Wilhelm Jodokus Koettingen († February 9, 1783), builder of the baroque Nalbach Church and the Körprich Chapel of St. Michael, 46 years a priest, buried in the choir of the parish church (February 11, 1783)

graveyards

Nalbach, cemetery with (from left to right) the church tower, the cemetery chapel and the town hall
Nalbach, cemetery hall

In the Middle Ages, all the dead in the Nalbach valley were buried in the Nalbach churchyard . Burials at the Körprich Michaelskapelle took place for the first time in the years 1695 to 1705, when Körprich, which of all Nalbach valley communities was the furthest away from the Nalbacher St. Peter and Paul , was striving for greater church independence from Nalbach. When the Gothic Nalbach church was demolished in 1762 in favor of a new baroque building and the Nalbach churchyard was therefore not verifiable, all the dead in the Nalbach valley were buried in the churchyard of the Körprich chapel for four weeks. Subsequently, however, the Nalbacher Kirchhof was used again until 1867, when the own chapel cemetery was used again in Körprich and the current cemetery was established in Nalbach between Fußbachstraße and Galgenberg in 1868. This cemetery was designed as a cemetery for Nalbach, Piesbach, Bettstadt, Bilsdorf and Diefflen. He lost this function with the establishment of his own cemeteries in the individual villages of the Nalbach valley in connection with the church's separation from the Nalbach mother parish. The centuries-old churchyard at the Nalbacher church was leveled in the following period. In the years 1953/1954 the cemetery chapel was built on the Nalbach cemetery. According to a resolution of the Nalbach municipal council on February 5, 1957, a memorial was set up here for those killed in the two world wars of the 20th century.

Archaeological excavations

In the wake of excavation work for the construction of a bank branch of the Kreissparkasse Saarlouis next to the Nalbacher church on the area of ​​the medieval churchyard (corner Hubertusstraße-Piesbacher Straße), numerous human skeletons and the foundations of a former sacred building were discovered during archaeological excavations by the Saarland State Office for Monument Preservation found with tower attachment.

The new building project in the center of Nalbach extended not only in the area of ​​a recently demolished previous building of a neo-baroque inn, but also to the east in the former parish cemetery, which was in use until at least 1868, and in a narrow strip just north of it. The majority of the graves were to be assigned to the 18th to 19th centuries. Individual burials, however, were older according to grave customs and stratigraphy and were also recognizable by a slightly different orientation. Most of them were systematically uncovered and documented, but could not initially be dated more precisely due to the lack of grave goods .

The narrow strip of land in the north along Piesbacher Straße yielded a wealth of architectural findings, which, however, remained incomprehensible in many cases due to the limited area of ​​the archaeologically investigable area. In some cases, the findings could only be recorded in the profile. At least four medieval phases can be distinguished stratigraphically. The phases, which can be assigned to the Middle Ages, were massively disrupted by more recent installations. The oldest ceramic finds, including shards with scroll wheel decorations, reached back at least to the High Middle Ages (approx. 1050 to 1250). They come from the oldest found cultural layer of the excavation. More recent was the rubble from a half-timbered house , which could only be documented in a small area.

Even younger than the half-timbered building was a larger two-phase stone house, some of which was astonishingly thick and with a length of at least 12.50 m, which was impressive in a village setting. The south wall of the stone house was covered by a layer that probably contained ceramics from the 15th century. The rammed earth floor of the stone house was assigned to the 18th century. A pit was sunk into this floor, the dimensions and trapezoidal shape of which made archaeologists think of a body burial. However, nothing could be found in the pit. To the south of the large stone building, the archaeologists found several graves parallel to the long wall. Individual graves with the same orientation were also discovered under a wall of the large stone house. Accordingly, the building must have been erected in an existing cemetery, which may have been used further south of the building.

So there is much evidence that the large stone building could have been a church. Perhaps it is the previous building of the current parish church, which was built between 1765 and 1767, which was demolished in 1761. The assumption remains uncertain, because until now it was assumed, also on the basis of the archive material, that the Gothic predecessor building of the Nalbach parish church was located at the site of the current church. The almost square room of the stone building could have been the remains of a bell tower. Since the parish of Nalbach dates back at least to the High Middle Ages, there must also have been a pre-Gothic parish church, which was mentioned in a document as early as 1154. The stone building, at least its older form, could have been built in the Romanesque style in the course of the High Middle Ages , while its younger phase could be assigned to the late medieval Gothic . Perhaps it is the remains of the medieval parish church, which was demolished in 1761, or a cemetery chapel .

literature

  • Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: Historical organs in Saarland, Regensburg 2015, pp. 30, 92–93.
  • Hans-Berthold Busse: Wilhelm Hector (1855–1918), in: Saarländische Lebensbilder, Vol. 4, Saarbrücken 1989, p. 138.
  • Hans-Berthold Busse: Nalbach, parish church St. Peter and Paul, in: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History, Preservation of Monuments in the Diocese of Trier, 42nd year, 1990, p. 458f.
  • Georg Colesie: History of the Nalbach Valley, A Saarland Homeland History, 2nd edition, Nalbach 1990.
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  • Philipp de Lorenzi: Contributions to the history of all parishes in the Diocese of Trier, Trier 1887, p. 335f.
  • Dieter Lorig: Article: "Sanctus, Sanctus", The Catholic Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul in Nalbach, in: Saarbrücker Zeitung, SZ-Extra Momente, 16./17. April 2016, No. 89, page E 1, West.
  • Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland, (publications by the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, vol. 40), Saarbrücken 2002, p. 282 and p. 517.
  • Gerhard Riehm: 250 years of the parish church of St. Peter and Paul Nalbach, 1767–2017, ed. from the Catholic parish of St. Peter and Paul Nalbach, Nalbach 2017.
  • Saarforschungsgemeinschaft (ed.): The art monuments of the Ottweiler and Saarlouis districts, edited by Walter Zimmermann , 2nd, unchanged edition, Saarbrücken 1976, pp. 237–240.
  • Johann Spurk: Parish chronicle of St. Josef Diefflen 1900–1975, Saarlouis 1975.
  • Willi Weyres and Albrecht Mann: Handbook on Rhenish Architecture of the 19th Century (1800–1880), Cologne 1968, p. 196.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 46 ″  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 22 ″  E