St. Ursula (Saarbrücken)

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The Church of St. Ursula in the Saarbrücken district of Scheidt is a Catholic religious building.

history

The Catholic parish in Scheidt has belonged to the Sankt Arnual Abbey since the Middle Ages , became a branch of the Rentrisch parish in 1923 , received a vicariate in 1950 and became an independent parish in 1961. As early as the 1930s, however, there was a desire for a church of its own. In 1934 the architect Jacob Quirin was commissioned with the construction. A planned parish center with parish hall and parsonage could not be implemented due to a lack of financial resources. The Church of St. Ursula in Saarbrücken-Scheidt was consecrated on October 27, 1935. But just a few years later, the building was badly damaged in World War II and had to be repaired after the war.

The first renovation work took place in the 1960s: the old pulpit in front of the choir wall was torn down, the high altar was removed and re-erected in a smaller form on an island in front of the choir . The twelve brightly colored glass windows on the side walls and the four sacristy windows from the time they were built were restored in 1957/58 by the Johann Muth company in Blieskastel and again in 2003 by the Freese company in Saarbrücken.

In 1962 a subsequent parsonage and a parsonage were built according to plans by the Sulzbach architect Schick.

In 1984 the interior of the church was renovated, the heating system renewed and the formerly covered wall frescoes exposed again. The next interior renovation took place twenty years later. The church was given its current appearance: The paint in off-white from 1984 was removed, a new paint on the wall in a very delicate ocher shade was applied and the ceiling was painted gray-green.

architecture

Rear view with sacristy
Side view with the church tower

The church with a gable roof stands in north-south direction on a steep slope. The cubic-looking building with a rectangular floor plan of 15 × 20 m has an attached square choir with the sacristy on the west side. A surrounding plinth made of dark red bricks and high arched windows with a sloping sill enliven the unadorned exterior facade.

The entrance portal is characterized by a square wall panel that conceals the sloping roof gable. An almost square, 15 m high bell tower with a gable roof rises up on the north side. Originally the portal had a double door with a small window above. In 1965, however, the gable wall was heavily modified and received a flat roof porch made of glass blocks and above it a large rectangular window made of glass blocks. In 2001 the stem was replaced by an aluminum-glass construction. The entrance is on the side from the south.

The ceiling is characterized by mighty transoms. A choir-wide, higher central zone runs through the entire building from the entrance area to the rear wall of the choir, creating the impression of side aisles. The high-lying windows in oak frames show Christian symbols in a highly abstract form.

Murals

At the initiative of the master painter and church council member Jakob Toussaint, the parish contacted the school for arts and crafts in Saarbrücken and asked for suggestions for painting the church walls. In the summer of 1948, Frans Masereel and his students Martha Traut , Marliese Scheller , Volkmar Groß , Otto Lackenmacher and Hans-Ernst Wenzel put two large Secco paintings based on designs by Marliese Scheller on the side walls of the choir of St. Ursula. They represent people bowing in a praying and pleading posture in front of the cross on the back wall of the altar. In 1953/54 the colored frescoes were covered with white plaster. When they wanted to renovate the church in 1984 for the 50th anniversary of the church, the wall frescoes were remembered and the restorers from Tholey's Mrziglod company were commissioned to uncover them.

At the same time, Theo Siegle's sculpting class at the School of Arts and Crafts held a competition for a life-size crucifix. A jury made up of the director and the teaching staff of the art school selected three designs and proposed them to the parish and the bishop for selection, which decided on the design by an artist who is no longer known. The cross with the life-size body hung on the outside facade of the church for many years and was hung up again in the church after a restoration.

literature

  • Frans Masereel's pupils paint church frescoes . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , October 23, 1948
  • Peter Riede: The work of Frans Masereel. A school of sight, of life, of humanity . In: Saarheimat, October 1985, p. 239 f
  • Marcell Hürtgen: Ecclesiastical monument preservation in the diocese Trier Scheidt parish church St. Ursula . In: Archive for Middle Rhine Church History, 2004, p. 536 f
  • Parish Church of St. Ursula in Scheidt . In: Paulinus, Diocese of Trier, January 18, 2004

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Coordinates: 49 ° 14 ′ 45.2 ″  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 20.3 ″  E