St. Peter in chains (Hilringen)
The Church of St. Petrus in Ketten is a Roman Catholic parish church in Hilhaben , a district of Merzig , Merzig-Wadern district , Saarland . The patronage of St. Peter in Chains refers to the capture and liberation of the apostle Peter in Jerusalem ( Acts 12 : 1–19 EU ). In the list of monuments of the Saarland the church building is a single monument listed.
history
A church in Hilhaben, which bore the patronage of St. Peter in chains , was mentioned as early as 1589. In 1709 a new church was built, which was extended in 1746 to have a cruciform floor plan .
Due to a lack of space and a dilapidated tower , the new building of the church was planned in 1869, but due to the restless conditions during the Kulturkampf there were considerable delays in the planning of the church. In December 1884 the church was temporarily closed due to the risk of collapse. In 1885 the church council applied for a new church to be built. The plans , for which the architect Wilhelm Hector ( Saarbrücken-St.Johann ) was responsible, were approved in June 1887 by the Vicariate General of the Diocese of Trier with some corrections.
When the old church was torn down, a seal of the auxiliary bishop Hermannus von Apelfeldern from Lihula , who was in Trier around 1230 , was found in the high altar . The construction of the new building took place in the years 1890 to 1891. After completion of the construction work, the Trier bishop Michael Felix Korum took the consecration on May 9, 1893 .
In 1960-1965 and 1984 the church underwent restoration work.
Architecture and equipment
The church building was a three-aisled basilica in the style of Gothic Revival built and divided into the tower with spire , the nave and the five-sided polygonal final chorus .
The church's furnishings include a Way of the Cross from 1896, restored in 1964 , figures by the sculptor Fischer ( Grevenmacher ) from 1890/91, and a sacrament altar from 1906 with the panels " Annunciation " and " Visitation ", which was taken over in 1986 by the Schnorbach parish ( Hunsrück ) has been.
The first painting of the church, which was created by the church painters Heinrich and Ernst Klein (Merzig) around 1900, was painted over in the 1960s, but exposed again in 1984 as part of a restoration. The lead glass windows of the church, which show pictures from the history of salvation , were designed in 1963 by the glass painter Jakob Schwarzkopf and manufactured by the Binsfeld company ( Trier ). The original glazing was destroyed in World War II.
The church organ has 28 registers .
literature
- Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland . Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 3-923877-40-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments in the district of Merzig-Wadern ( Memento of the original dated May 2, 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 April 29, 2014
- ↑ Hilringen ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. From: www.merzig.de, accessed April 30, 2014
- ↑ a b c d Ruth Wagner: Angels with banners of the Beatitudes . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , 9./10. March 2013.
- ↑ Hans Leisten: From the parish history of Hilbringen . In: Hilbringer Heimatbuch. Merzig 1980, pp. 87–140, here p. 88 (with ill.).
- ↑ a b c Information on the parish church of St. Petrus in Ketten Hilringen on: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de. Retrieved April 29, 2014
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 28.9 ″ N , 6 ° 36 ′ 57.6 ″ E