St. Wendalinus (Dirmingen)

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The parish church of St. Wendalinus in Dirmingen
View from the "Hundsberg"
View inside the church
View to the organ gallery
Haerpfer organ

The St. Wendalinus Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Dirmingen , a district of the Saarland community of Eppelborn , Neunkirchen district . Saint Wendelin is the church patron . The Church's patronage day is October 20th . In the list of monuments of the Saarland is the church building, which was built on a hill above Dirmingen and widely dominates the landscape, as a single monument listed.

history

The predecessor of today's church was built in 1912 and was bombed on February 21, 1945.

On September 15, 1947, the building permit for the reconstruction of the church was granted. The plans for the new church, which was built on the same site as the previous building, were designed by the architect , church builder and university professor Dominikus Böhm ( Cologne ). The groundbreaking ceremony took place on May 15, 1948, followed by the laying of the foundation stone on July 4, 1948 and the topping-out ceremony on October 16, 1949 . The consecration took place on December 17, 1950. The solemn consecration took place on May 4, 1954.

Building description

The church building is dominated by the 25 meter high tower with semicircular sound openings. By dispensing with any decorative element on the exterior, the church deliberately presents itself as a modest country church .

Inside the church, too, the sacred building shows itself as a village church with an intimate atmosphere. For this, the subordination provides little aisle among the main room and the lines of the ribbed vault that look for sanctuary directs.

Furnishing

In the spacious, raised choir of the church stands the white marble altar designed as a simple table altar . The artist and art professor Boris Kleint ( Saarbrücken ) was responsible for painting the chancel in 1955 with the depiction of the Ascension of Christ , which includes all peoples as the redeemed of Christ . The mosaic wall in the choir room was made by painter Albert Kettenhofen ( Merzig - Harlingen ) .

The wall design in the vestibule used as a memorial room for the fallen, a ceramic painting from 1956, was designed by Ferdinand Selgrad ( Spiesen-Elversberg ). It was carried out by the company Villeroy & Boch ( Mettlach ).

The tomb of pastor Johann Nikolaus Didas (* December 20, 1886, † February 27, 1962) is located in the Marienkapelle of the church . He was very experienced in matters of art and also acted as an advisor to the architect Böhm.

Under the theological advice of dean Günter Hirschauer, a way of the cross by the sculptor Michaela Groß ( Neunkirchen ) was made from Aachen sandstone in the outside area of ​​the church . There is also a Lourdes grotto on the church grounds .

organ

The organ of the church was built in 1956 by Haerpfer & Erman ( Boulay ) and redesigned in 1998 by Thomas Gaida ( Wemmetsweiler ). The Kegelladen instrument has 28 registers spread over 2 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. Salicional 8th'
3. Lovely covered 8th'
4th octave 4 ′
5. flute 4 ′
6th Schwiegel 2 ′
7th Mixture III-IV
8th. shawm 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
9. Quintad 16 ′
10. Singing Principal 8th'
11. Wooden flute 8th'
12. Dulciana 8th'
13. Vox coelestis 8th'
14th Principal 4 ′
15th Reed flute 4 ′
16. Nasat 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
17th recorder 2 ′
18th Tertz 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
19th Cymbel IV
20th Trumpet 8th'
21st Clarine 4 ′
Tremolo
Pedal C – f 1
22nd Subbass (CH acoustic) 32 ′
23. Sub bass 16 ′
24. Principal bass 8th'
25th Covered bass 8th'
26th Choral bass 4 ′
27. Intoxicating Bass II
28. Lovely trumpet 16 ′

Bells

In 1953, the Saarlouiser bell foundry in Saarlouis-Fraulautern, which had been founded by Karl (III) Otto from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and Aloys Riewer from Saarland, cast five two bronze bells with the striking tones for St. Wendelinus: des ′ - es ′ - f ′ - as ′ - b ′. The bells have the following diameters: 1489 mm, 1327 mm, 1182 mm, 994 mm, 885 mm and weigh: 2020 kg, 1420 kg, 1016 kg, 626 kg, 446 kg.

literature

  • Bastian Müller: Post-war architecture in Saarland . Saarbrücken 2011 (Preservation of monuments in Saarland 4), p. 126

Web links

Commons : St. Wendalinus (Dirmingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, sub-monuments list district Neunkirchen (PDF; 1.3 MB), accessed on June 17, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Catholic parish church St. Wendalinus Dirmingen On: www.eppelborn.de, accessed on June 17, 2013.
  3. ↑ a b c Information on the parish church of St. Wendalinus at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de, accessed on June 17, 2013
  4. ↑ The organ on organ index
  5. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells - 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 .
  6. ↑ 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).

Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 39.6 ″  E