St. Remigius (Freisen)

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The parish church of St. Remigius in Freisen
Another view of the church with the extension from 1953
View inside the church
View to the organ gallery

The St. Remigius Church is a Catholic parish church in Freisen in the Saarland , in the St. Wendel district . It bears the patronage of St. Remigius and is listed as an individual monument in the Saarland monuments list.

history

The first documented mention of a chapel in Freisen comes from the year 1333. The first evidence of a church from 1572.

Today's Church of St. Remigius was built in 1753 as a baroque hall church with a west tower . In 1853 the church was expanded with the construction of a new chancel.

In 1953 a transept and a choir were added to the main nave , giving the building a cross-shaped floor plan . The plans for this came from the architects Albert Dietz and B. Grothe ( Saarbrücken ).

With effect from September 1, 2011, the parish community Freisen-Oberkirchen was established in the deanery St. Wendel , to which in addition to the parish St. Remigius (Freisen) also the parishes St. Marien ( Grügelborn ), St. Katharina ( Oberkirchen ) and St. Laurentius ( Wolfersweiler ) belong.

Furnishing

The interior of the church is richly decorated in the baroque style.

The altars, dating from the 18th century, are decorated with rocailles . The high altar has a two-story structure with eight putti and figures of bishops. The two side altars, which come from the same workshop as the main altar, each have four putti, although the figures in the niches are not original.

The figurative decorations in the church include statues of Our Lady with Child, St. Sebastian and St. Catherine , all of which date from the 18th century.

In front of the church there is a war memorial which, like the church building , is listed as an individual monument in the Saarland monuments list .

organ

The organ of the church was built in 1954 by the French organ builder Haerpfer & Erman ( Boulay ) in the historic housing from around 1860. In 1985 the Hugo Mayer company ( Heusweiler ) made changes to the gaming table .

The cone shop instrument is set up on a gallery and has 26 registers , distributed over 2 manuals and pedal . The game and stop action is electro-pneumatic. The disposition is as follows:

I main work
1. Principal 8th'
2. Wooden flute 8th'
3. Gamba 8th'
4th Salicional 8th'
5. Praestant 4 ′
6th Reed flute 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. octave 2 ′
9. Mixture IV
10. Trumpet 8th'
II swell
11. Night horn 8th'
12. Quintad 8th'
13. Singing Principal 4 ′
14th Flute covered 4 ′
15th Open flute 2 ′
16. Nasat 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
17th Cymbel III
18th Krummhorn 8th'
tremolo
pedal
19th double bass 16 ′
20th Sub bass 16 ′
21st Octave bass 8th'
22nd Covered bass 8th'
23. flute 4 ′
24. Cantus firmus 2 ′
25th Rauschbass III
26th Lovely trumpet 16 ′
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I,
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I
    • Super octave coupling: II / I
  • Playing aids : 1 free combination, tutti, crescendo

literature

  • New buildings in the Diocese of Trier . 1961
  • Georg Delhio: Handbook of the German art monuments Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland . Munich 1984.

Web links

Commons : St. Remigius  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list of the district of St. Wendel ( Memento of April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), accessed on April 11, 2014
  2. ↑ a b c d e Information on the Catholic parish church of St. Remigius Freisen at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on March 6, 2016
  3. ↑ Establishment of the parish community Freisen-Oberkirchen in the dean's office St. Wendel On: cms.bistum-trier.de, accessed on April 11, 2014
  4. ↑ Freisen on: www.saarlandbilder.net, accessed on April 11, 2014
  5. ^ A b Organ of the parish church of St. Remigius Freisen On: www.organindex.de, accessed on April 11, 2014
  6. ↑ a b Freisen, St. Remigius (Catholic) ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) On: www.saar-orgelland.de, accessed on April 11, 2014

Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '13.2 "  N , 7 ° 15' 3.5"  E