St. Petrus (Sülm)

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The parish church of St. Petrus in Sülm

St. Petrus is a Roman Catholic parish church in the local community of Sülm in the Eifel district of Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate . It has been part of the Speicher parish community in the Diocese of Trier since 2013 .

history

There was a first church in Sülm as early as the end of the 10th century, when the place belonged to the parish of Welschbillig ; it already bore the patronage of the apostle Peter . In the 11th century Sülm became an independent parish .

Little information is available about the old church. Presumably during the reign of Trier Auxiliary Bishop Johann II of Baden (1456–1503) a church was built in Sülm, but possibly also rebuilt. On the left outside of the current church there is a vaulted capstone with a coat of arms. This church was able to accommodate about 600 people. A floor plan has not been preserved. One can assume, however, that the old church in the late Gothic style had a floor plan of around 10 m × 20 m. It had three altars and two bells. The bell, cast in 1550, is now in Scharfbillig.

In 1740 a new rectory was built. Moreover, there were in the 18th century to the early 19th century next to the priest a second priest as Frühmesser ( Primissarius ), who held the Sunday morning mass. The "Frühmesserhaus" was later dilapidated and was sold in 1827. The parish has branch churches in Röhl ( St. Martin ) and Scharfbillig .

The church had to be torn down in 1823/24 because the damage to the ceiling was too great and it could not be repaired with the funds available at the time.

New building

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After the decision was made to demolish the old church, the congregation discussed the location for a new church. The villagers decided on a location above the rectory garden, called Bungert. At this point the church could unfold its splendor, and the pastor would only have a few steps from the rectory to the church. The chronicler Theodor Schmitman named a third advantage: the elimination of the lack of space in the cemetery of the old church. The space that became free after the demolition could be used as a cemetery area. Pastor Gerhart Werner vetoed this because, as a friend of agriculture and horticulture, he feared for his parish garden, which he would have to give up for the new building. The congregation bowed to his will.

At the previous location, the shell was made with the stones of the old church and the old crumbling cemetery wall, which was completed in 1826. Pastor Werner, who was very committed to the building, did not live to see the consecration - he died on May 4th, 1827. On July 26th, 1827, the 34-year-old Johann Billen moved into the Sülmer rectory as the new pastor.

The church windows and their meaning

When the church was rebuilt in 1826, only transparent glass was used for cost reasons. In order to visually upgrade the church, it was decided in 1916 to replace the previous windows with colored glass. The Binsfeld glazier from Trier was commissioned to manufacture the new lead glass windows . Various biblical themes and Christian saints were presented:

Furnishing

The church was completed in a short time, but the interior was still missing. The three altars of the old church had become unusable. On the one hand, they were too small for such a large church; on the other hand, the altars were already 300 years old and no longer fit into the overall picture of the new church. On September 13, 1827, the contract to manufacture a new high altar was awarded to the cheapest craftsman. In the spring of 1834 the new high altar, consecrated to St. Peter, was handed over to the community. At this time, only little inventory was in the church itself. In addition to the high altar, still in a raw state and without colored version was, there were two confessionals, 41 benches and a special "lay judges chair" for the "Church seer". The baptismal font had a wooden lid. There was not a single figure of a saint in the church, a single crucifix hung on the bare walls. Because the house of God did not meet the expectations of a Catholic community, it was given the nickname “Protestant Temple” or “Comedy House”, a kind of theater hall.

On December 10, 1842, a new pastor was appointed for the Sülm community. Franz Prim, was born in Bitburg and previously served in the parishes of Metterich and Seinfeld. He made a great contribution to the parish and died on September 21, 1856. His gravestone set into the wall can be seen at the back of the morgue. At the beginning of his term of office, Pastor Prim tried to get two side altars from the former church of the St. Thomas an der Kyll monastery . The church had been left to its own devices for several years; a new location for the two side altars had not yet been found. So it made sense to give the two side altars in the Sülmer parish church a new home. Two members of the church council in Sülmer had already examined the two altars. The Kyllburg pastor Wagner, responsible for St. Thomas, approved the sale. Pastor Prim registers the purchase with his Trier authority. The responsible vicar general Müller refused the purchase. He justified his decision with the desolate condition, he did not believe that the altars could be renovated. In his letter to Pastor Prim he mentioned the renovation of the St. Maximin Church in Kyllburg, the two side altars of which should be replaced by new ones. On April 20, 1846, Pastor Prim reported to the episcopal authorities that the two side altars from Kyllburg had been purchased for 100 thalers. Four weeks later, on May 21, 1846, the renovated side altars were installed in the parish church.

Consecration of the parish church

For almost a quarter of a century, services were held in the parish church without the parish church having been consecrated. On October 5th, 1851 Bishop took Wilhelm Arnoldi the consecration in front of the church. To commemorate this day, an ornate chronogram (relief) was embedded in the wall on the left side of the main portal. As was customary at the time, the text is in Latin . Translated, the inscription reads: “In the year of the consecration of our church, Fr. Prim, the pastor of this place, had this added. Peace be to the living and to those who have died, eternal rest. "

Ceiling painting - Assumption of the Virgin

Figures and ceiling paintings

Even after its consecration, the parish church did not have any figures in the interior. The crucifixion group on the high altar was not purchased until Pastor Peter Domann was in office. The work was created in a sculpture workshop in Oberammergau . In modern times, the picture was supplemented by two figures of the apostles (Peter and Paul) cast in plaster. Although the parish owned two valuable 17th-century figures, they were not considered worthy of being erected. The two figures represent the Mother of God and Saint Lucia. Both figures are about 75 cm high and are now on the right side wall. The ceiling painting “ Assumption of Mary ” dates from 1932 and was carried out by W. Imendt from Trier.

In 1978 the church was thoroughly renovated and the sanctuary was redesigned in line with the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council .

literature

  • Michael Berens : Churches and chapels of the Bitburger Land. Bitburg 1992, pp. 82, 84, 90-93.
  • Festival magazine for the 6th Singer Circle Choir Concert of the Bitburg-Prüm Singer Circle. on June 25 and 26, 1977 in Sülm.
  • Andreas Heinz, Karl E. Becker: 1000 years of Sülm 981-1981. A contribution to local history. Sulm 1981.
  • Philipp de Lorenzi : Contributions to the history of all parishes in the Diocese of Trier . Volume I. Trier 1887, pp. 141-143.
  • Ferdinand Pauly : Settlement and parish organization in the old Archdiocese of Trier. Vol. 3: The Kyllburg-Bitburg Regional Chapter. Bonn 1963, pp. 216–220. *

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ pfarierendengemeinschaft-speicher.de: Parish Sülm. History of the parish. Retrieved January 23, 2020.
  2. ↑ pfarierendengemeinschaft-speicher.de: Parish Sülm. History of the parish. Retrieved January 23, 2020.
  3. ↑ Andreas Heinz, Karl E. Becker: Chronicle of the local community Sülm. Published for the 1000th anniversary in 1981, p. 11
  4. ↑ Ph. De Lorenzi, Parishes, I, pp. 141–143; F. Pauly, Kyllburg-Bitburg, pp. 216-220; M. Berens, Kirchen und Kapellen des Bitburger Land , pp. 82, 84, 90–93; Handbuch 1952, pp. 232f
  5. ↑ Andreas Heinz, Karl E. Becker: Chronicle of the local community Sülm. Published for the 1000th anniversary in 1981, p. 27
  6. ↑ Andreas Heinz, Karl E. Becker: Chronicle of the local community Sülm. Published for the 1000th anniversary in 1981, p. 57
  7. ↑ Andreas Heinz, Karl E. Becker: Chronicle of the local community Sülm. Published for the 1000th anniversary in 1981, p. 142
  8. ↑ pfarreiengemeinschaft-spreicher.de: parish Sülm. The parish church , accessed on January 23, 2020.

Coordinates: 49 ° 55 ′ 12 "  N , 6 ° 34 ′ 20.6"  E