St. Valentin (Otzenhausen)

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The Catholic Church of St. Valentin in Otzenhausen
Another view of the church

The St. Valentin Church is a Catholic parish church in Otzenhausen , a district of the municipality of Nonnweiler in the St. Wendel district , Saarland . It bears the patronage of St. Valentin von Terni and is listed as an individual monument in the Saarland's list of monuments .

history

Due to the Concordat concluded in 1801 between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII , the parishes and auxiliary parishes in the Diocese of Trier were reorganized . This also affected Otzenhausen, which had been part of France for several years at the time. The place in the diocese of Trier was raised to a succursal or auxiliary parish. The parish church was a chapel 11 meters long and 7.85 meters wide from 1772, which had replaced a dilapidated previous chapel in the same place. Due to insufficient supplies, the Otzenhausen parish remained vacant from 1818 to 1846. During this time, the Catholics of Sötern and Schwarzenbach , who also belonged to the parish of Otzenhausen, were looked after by the parish in Neunkirchen / Nahe in Oldenburg , while the Catholics of Otzenhausen were again assigned to the parish of Nonnweiler, as before 1803. In 1845/46, however, the people of Otzenhausen managed to move to the parish of Kastel .

In 1846 the pastor's position in Otzenhausen was filled again. The Catholics in Otzenhausen and Schwarzenbach then decided to expand the much too small chapel from 1772, which was implemented in 1850. The northern end of the old chapel, which was integrated into the new nave , was cut out and a hall church was created with a choir apse to the north . On September 11, 1851, the Trier Bishop Wilhelm Arnoldi consecrated the church, which was dedicated to Saints Valentin and Cyriacus .

In 1864 the church was rebuilt by removing the temporary structure with the old chapel and adapting the southern part of the nave. A gallery was built there and a new church tower was built. The helmet of the tower of the same shape as the parish church of St. Martin in Hermeskeil had received its present reduced truncated form, because of two lightning strikes . Another measure conversion took place in 1902, when the original open connection between the interior of the church chancel and nave by one, the sky symbolizing, arched separated and the chancel has been raised.

When Sötern with Schwarzenbach was raised to a vicarage in 1927 , their assignment to the parish of Otzenhausen ended.

In 1974 the sacristy was renewed, which had been added in 1879, but was too small and damp from the start.

Furnishing

View from the organ gallery into the interior of the church
View to the organ gallery

Through continuous purchases, the initially modest interior of the church has been enriched over time. The baroque altar from the Abbey Tholey and the neo-Gothic side altars are still elements of the original equipment, as well as from Weiskirchen originating pulpit with the crown canopy .

The Way of the Cross was purchased in 1888, with the somewhat lush picture frames removed in the 1950s. In 1908, with rich could ornamentation provided communion rail be installed. The middle of the women's side has been adorned with a pieta since 1914 , which was expanded to become a war memorial in 1922 and has been installed in the entrance area since a renovation in the 1970s.

The first stained glass windows , each with a medallion with a saint in the decor , could only be purchased towards the end of the 19th century, but were so badly damaged in the Second World War that they had to be replaced by new, modern windows in 1953. Only the two windows flanking the large mission cross , which depict the birth and death of Christ, have survived . The modern windows, with their violet-modified symbolism, found little favor with church visitors and were replaced by today's ones in 1991 due to damage and cracks.

Bells

A bell consisting of three bells was purchased when the tower was erected in 1864. These were melted down for war purposes during the First World War . The second generation of bells, acquired in 1927, suffered the same fate as the first during World War II. The third generation of bells has been in the church tower since 1954. These three bronze bells were cast by the Saarlouis bell foundry in Saarlouis-Fraulautern, which was founded in 1953 by Karl (III) Otto from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and Alois Riewer from Saarland. The bells have the following chimes: f sharp '- a' - h '. They have the following diameters: 1109 mm, 932 mm, 830 mm and weigh: 820 kg, 490 kg, .352 kg.

organ

Organ prospectus

The first instrument that was set up in the church was a harmonium from 1898 . This was replaced in 1914 by a used organ from Behles ( Munich ). As part of a complete restoration of the church, the pipe organ was removed in 1959 and an electronic organ was installed. However, due to interference and changes in sound requirements, this was only in use until 1976.

The present organ of the church was built in 1976 by the company Sebald Orgelbau ( Trier ). The abrasive loading -instrument is placed on a loft and has 13 registers , spread over 2 manuals and pedal . The playing and stop action is mechanical. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Dumped 8th'
2. Salicional 8th'
3. Principal 4 ′
4th flute 4 ′
5. Gemshorn 2 ′
6th Mixture III
II Positive C-g 3
7th Reed flute 8th'
8th. Smalled up 4 ′
9. Principal 2 ′
10. Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
11. Rohrschalmey 8th'
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
12. Sub bass 16 ′
13. Hollow flute 8th'

Web links

Commons : St. Valentin  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list of the district of St. Wendel ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), accessed April 8, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarland.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Otzenhausen St. Valentin. (No longer available online.) Parish community Nonnweiler, archived from the original on April 9, 2014 ; Retrieved April 9, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cms.pfarreigem-nonnweiler.de
  3. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the bell foundry dynasty Otto . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, here in particular pp. 87 to 95, 566 .
  4. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, here in particular pp. 105 to 112, 517 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  5. ^ Organ of the parish church of St. Valentin Otzenhausen On: organindex.de, accessed on April 8, 2014

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 8.9 "  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 36.5"  E