St. Willibrord (Limbach (Schmelz))

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The parish church of St. Willibrord in Limbach near Schmelz
View inside the church
View to the organ gallery
Organ prospectus

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

history

The Limbach parish was first mentioned in a document in 1345, but the origins of the parish go back to the 9th century AD. In 1345, in the year of the first documentary mention, the Duke of Lorraine , in whose territory Limbach was at that time, transferred his right to patronage of the parish, including the income , to the Beckinger Ordenshaus ( Commandery of the Teutonic Order ) . The order now had the right of presentation and was able to propose the pastors of Limbach to the Bishop of Trier , to whose diocese the parish belonged. Since the order also drew the income from the parish, it had to take care of the maintenance of most of the parish church , while the smaller part of the maintenance had to be taken over by the parishioners. In 1723 the order financed the building of the new nave and in 1774 the extension of the parish church. The Order's obligation to maintain the church ended in 1792 when the French Revolution reached Limbach. In 1803 the order finally lost its rights and could therefore no longer meet its obligations.

In the 19th century, the Limbach parish also included the villages of Dorf and Auschet. In 1852 the residents of Auschet applied to the royal Prussian government in Trier to be attached to Nunkirchen and to be separated from Limbach. In February 1853 this was complied with. In return, Vogelsbüsch was separated from Nunkirchen and assigned to the Limbach parish. Towards the end of the 19th century the parish with Limbach, Dorf and Vogelsbüsch had 1301 inhabitants. In 1898 a church building association was founded with the aim of collecting funds for a new church, as the Limbach church had become too small due to the population growth and the introduction of a second Sunday mass could not solve the problem of space.

After a suitable building site had been found, construction of the new church could begin in 1906 according to plans by the architect Ernst Brand ( Trier ). The estimate had an amount of 85,000 in construction Mark out. In the course of the construction work, for a variety of reasons, additional costs were added, so that the total for the shell was 108,000 marks. On November 17, 1907, the church was consecrated and inaugurated on June 28, 1908 by the then Trier Bishop Michael Felix Korum .

Architecture and equipment

The church building was built in the neo-Gothic style. It is a three-aisled hall church with a tower with a pointed helmet attached to the side . The ceilings inside the church are formed by ribbed vaults. Most of the windows have tracery in late Gothic forms.

The walls inside are kept white, with the edges painted in brick color. Struts, vaults and belt arches are accompanied by ornamental paintings. The neo-Gothic high altar in the choir is flanked by baroque side altars that come from the old parish church. The picture on the left side altar shows the 14 helpers in need who are gathered around the crucified baby Jesus . The right side altar is dedicated to St. Hubertus . In front of the Hubertus altar stands the baptismal font of the church, which was moved from the former baptistery, which became a memorial to the victims of the world wars, to its present location in the 1960s. Due to the Second Vatican Council , there were further renovations in the church in the 1960s. So the stone choir screens and the pulpit were removed.

organ

The organ of the church is a reconstruction or new construction of a Roethinger organ from 1928, which was made in 1954 by the Hugo Mayer Orgelbau company ( Heusweiler ). The instrument, which is set up on a gallery , has 28 (31) registers , divided into 2 manuals and pedal . The playing and stop action is electric.
In 2010 the Mayer company rearranged and expanded it. The existing sub-bass 16 'in the main work was made playable as a drone 16' and in the pedal work as a fifth 10 2 ⁄ 3  '( acoustic 32' ). Furthermore, the sesquial ages of the Schwellwerk were split into fifths 2 2 ⁄ 3  'and thirds 1 3 ⁄ 5  ' and the octave 2 'and Schwiegel 2' each changed their parts. Furthermore, a Zimbelstern was attached, the bells of which are integrated into the swell.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Wooden flute 8th'
4th Reed flute 8th'
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Pointed flute 4 ′
7th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Octave 2 ′
9. Mixture IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
10. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
11. Quintad 16 ′
12. Principal 8th'
13. Salicional 8th'
14th Beat 8th'
15th Dumped 8th'
16. Principal 4 ′
17th recorder 4 ′
18th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
19th Schwiegel 2 ′
20th third 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
21st Cymbel III 1'
22nd Schalmay 8th'
Tremulant
Zimbelstern
Pedal C – f 1
23. Principal 16 ′
Subbass (= No. 1) 16 ′
Gedacktbass (wind reduction ) 16 ′
Quintbass (Ext. No. 1) 10 2 ⁄ 3  ′
24. Octavbass 8th'
25th Dacked bass 8th'
26th Choral bass 4 ′
27. Back set IV 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
28. trombone 16 ′
  • Pairing :
    • Normal coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
    • Sub-octave coupling: II / I
    • Super octave coupling: II / I
  • Playing aids : 9999 typesetting combinations, tutti, crescendo roller

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Willibrord (Limbach (Schmelz))  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the Saarland, partial list of monuments in the Saarlouis district  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 347 kB), accessed on October 26, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.saarland.de  
  2. ↑ a b c Parish Church "St. Willibrord", History ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2012 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. At: www.pastoraler-raum-schmelz.de, accessed on October 26, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pastoraler-raum-schmelz.de
  3. ↑ Information on the parish church of St. Willibrord at: www.kunstlexikonsaar.de. Retrieved October 26, 2012
  4. ↑ Traudl Brenner: 14 helpers in need crowd around the cross, a lovable church - St. Willibrord in Limbach near Schmelz . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung , 22./23. September 2012. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
  5. ↑ a b Organ of the parish church St. Willibrord Limbach On: de.organindex.org, accessed on April 10, 2013

Coordinates: 49 ° 28 '34.2 "  N , 6 ° 54' 5.9"  E