St. Stephen (Faha)

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The Catholic Parish Church of St. Stephen in Faha
View inside the church
View to the organ gallery

The Church of St. Stephanus und St. Hubertus is a Roman Catholic parish church in Faha , a district of the municipality of Mettlach , Merzig-Wadern district , Saarland . The church bears the patronage of St. Stephen and St. Hubertus as a secondary patron. The sacred building is listed as an individual monument in the Saarland's list of monuments.

history

The oldest part of the church is the tower from 1548. The nave was built between 1850 and 1852. In 1935 the tower was expanded.

Church building

The church building, a single-nave hall structure, is divided into the nave and a five-sided polygonal choir in the east. The church tower with a pointed helmet is attached to the northeast corner of the nave . The church is entered in the west through a round arched portal , which is reached via a double flight of stairs . There is a rose window above the entrance portal in the west facade , which is flanked by two small arched windows. Another of these arched windows is placed above the rose window. There are three larger arched windows in each of the side walls of the nave. The choir room also has two arched windows.

Furnishing

Inside the church, church painter Alfred Gottwald ( Bonn ) put paintings on the wall to the choir in 1937 . They show scenes from the life of the church patrons St. Stephanus and St. Hubertus. On the left the stoning of St. Stephen can be seen, on the right a Hubertus scene. Also of Gottwald originating Christ the King - mosaic in the choir on the altar and on wooden panels in oil painted stations of the cross .

The windows , with the exception of the two choir windows, were made by Peter Gitzinger ( Munich ).

organ

The organ of the church was built around the 1950s by the Ernst Seifert company ( Bergisch Gladbach ). The cone shop instrument is set up on a gallery and has 13 (17) registers , distributed over two manuals and pedal . The game and stop action is electro-pneumatic. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Principal 8th'
2. Dumped 8th'
3. octave 4 ′
4th Schwiegel 2 ′
5. Mixture IV
II upper structure C – g 3
6th Reed flute 8th'
7th Salizional 8th'
8th. Night horn 4 ′
9. Principal 2 ′
10. Nasat 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Krummhorn 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
12. Sub-bass 16 ′
13. Octave bass 8th'
Thought bass 8 ′ (Ext. Sub-bass 16 ′)
Chorale bass 4 ′ (external octave bass 8 ′)
Bass flute 4 ′ (Ext. Sub-bass 16 ′)
Krummhorn 8 ′ (Transm. II)
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I
  • Playing aids : 1 free combination, tutti, tongue down, crescendo kick

literature

  • Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Saarburg district . (= Paul Clemen (Hrsg.): Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 15, III. Department). L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1939 (reprint from the Academic Bookshop Interbook, Trier 1982), p. 74.
  • Marschall, Kristine: Sacred buildings of classicism and historicism in Saarland . Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland, Saarbrücken 2002, ISBN 978-3-923877-40-9 , p. 666 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 on July 9, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarland.de
  2. ↑ a b c Information on the parish church of St. Stephanus and St. Hubertus at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on July 9, 2014
  3. ↑ The organ of the parish church St. Stephanus in Faha On: www.organindex.de, accessed on July 9, 2014

Coordinates: 49 ° 31 ′ 32 "  N , 6 ° 29 ′ 10"  E