St. Willibrord (Baltersweiler)

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The Catholic Church of St. Willibrord in Baltersweiler

The St. Willibrord Church is a Catholic parish church in Baltersweiler , a district of the municipality of Namborn in the St. Wendel district , Saarland . Saint Willibrord is the church patron . In the list of monuments of the Saarland, the church is a single monument listed.

history

View inside the church
View to the organ gallery

Due to the proximity to the city of St. Wendel , the Catholics of Baltersweiler have always been assigned to the parish of St. Wendelin and had to cover a distance of around four to five kilometers to attend the church service . This ultimately resulted in the desire for their own church in Baltersweiler, which was initially reflected in the establishment of the first chapel association in 1907. In 1931 it was separated from the parish of St. Wendelin and together with Mauschbach to the north, Baltersweiler was assigned to the parish of St. Anna in the St. Wendel district of Alsfassen . This step found acceptance in the population only very slowly.

In March 1943, Baltersweiler was granted permission to build an emergency church and in 1946 it was raised to the status of an independent parish . Thus, the long-cherished wish for a parish church of their own could be turned into reality. The preparatory work for the construction of the church, for the design of which architect JW Stockhausen ( Neunkirchen / Saar ) was responsible, began in the Holy Week of 1947. In the following years the church was built in the form of donations and personal contributions. The consecration of the shell completed church could be carried out on May 7, 1950.

The Trier bishop Matthias Wehr elevated the parish of St. Willibrord Baltersweiler to a parish on January 1, 1954 , which also included the places Hofeld and Mauschbach. The branch church of St. Bonifatius is located in Mauschbach .

In 1984 the parish of St. Willibrord was annexed to the parish of the Assumption of Mary in Namborn . In September 2000 the parish community was expanded to include the parish of St. Anna in Furschweiler .

With effect from September 1st, 2011 the parish community Oberthal-Namborn was established in the deanery of St. Wendel, which also includes the Namborn parishes of Maria Himmelfahrt , St. Anna (Furschweiler) and St. Willibrord (Baltersweiler).

Architecture and equipment

The large window in the back wall of the chancel is worth seeing inside the church . The eleven-meter-high window, which forms the central focus of the interior, was designed by the Hungarian- German architect and church window painter György Lehoczky . The window was inaugurated in 1953 as part of the patronage festival.

Bells

With its 40-meter-high bell tower is the parish church of St. Willibrord , the architectural landmark of Baltersweiler. In 1953, the Saarlouiser bell foundry in Saarlouis-Fraulautern, which was founded by Karl (III) Otto from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen and Alois Riewer from Saarland in 1953, cast three bronze bells with the for the tower of St. Willibrord in Baltersweilers Beat notes: f ′ - as ′ - b ′. The bells have the following diameters: 1171 mm, 984 mm, 877 mm and weigh: 950 kg, 588 kg, 402 kg.

organ

The organ of the church, which also bears the alternative name Pius organ , was built in 1953 by the Hugo Mayer company ( Heusweiler ). The cone shop instrument is set up on a gallery and has 28 (29) registers , divided into 2 manuals and pedal . The action mechanism is electric, the stop action is electropneumatic. The disposition is as follows:

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Quintad 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Gemshorn 8th'
4th Wooden flute 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th recorder 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Schwiegel 2 ′
9. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
11. Dumped 8th'
12. Quintatön 8th'
13. Salizional 8th'
14th Principal 4 ′
15th Night horn 4 ′
16. Principal 2 ′
17th Sif flute 1'
18th Terzian II
19th Cymbel III-IV
20th Dulcian 16 ′
21st Schalmay 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
22nd Principal bass 16 ′
23. Sub bass 16 ′
Gedacktpommer
(= I Quintade 16 ′) 		16 ′
24. Octave bass 8th'
25th Bass flute 8th'
26th Choral bass 4 ′
27. Back set IV
28. trombone 16 ′
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Playing aids : Tutti, 2 free combinations, freely adjustable piano pedal, crescendo roller, tongues down, hand register down

literature

  • Parish of Sankt Willibrord <Baltersweiler> (Ed.): 50 years of the parish of St. Willibrord Baltersweiler . Baltersweiler 2004.
  • György Lehoczky working group (ed.): György Lehoczky, 1901–1979 . St. Johann GmbH, Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken 2010, ISBN 3-938070-49-8 , p. 176 ( galerie-st-johann.de [accessed on September 7, 2012]).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 8, 2014
  2. ↑ a b c d e St. Willibrord, Baltersweiler On: www.oberthal-namborn.de, accessed on April 8, 2014
  3. ↑ Establishment of the parish community Oberthal-Namborn in the dean's office St. Wendel on: cms.bistum-trier.de, accessed on April 8, 2014
  4. ^ György Lehoczky working group: György Lehoczky, 1901–1979 . 2010, p. 70
  5. ↑ Our Baltersweiler district at: www.namborn.de, accessed on April 8, 2014
  6. ^ 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 .
  7. ↑ 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 105 to 112, 517 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
  8. ^ Organ of the parish church of St. Willibrord Baltersweiler On: organindex.de, accessed on April 8, 2014

Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 53.8 "  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 39"  E