Wellesweiler stem church
The Stengelkirche Wellesweiler is a profane Protestant parish church in the Wellesweiler district of Neunkirchen . The building is a listed building as an individual monument.
history
According to building documents, a church is said to have stood on the site of the current building as early as the Middle Ages. This was confirmed by excavation work during a restoration in 1995. It was a choir tower church from the 14th / 15th centuries. Century. On the east side of an almost square room there was a square tower with the altar in the arched ground floor. The altar foundation in the area of the tower was still there. Due to ceramic shards from the 9th or 10th century and documentary mentions, it even seems possible that a church could have existed as early as Carolingian times.
In 1724 the services in the late medieval building had to be stopped because the church became dilapidated. The services were celebrated in the so-called "Hofhaus", today's Junkerhaus , until 1755 . In 1756 it was decided to build a new building in place of the old church. The plans from the years 1756/57 probably came from the Saarbrücken master builder Karl Abraham Dodel , the foreman of the general building director Friedrich Joachim Stengel . In 1862 the church received an organ gallery, in 1885 it was rebuilt and the church got its present gallery. In 1920 the church caught fire. In the subsequent restoration, lead glass windows were installed. The floor covering was also renewed three years later.
In 1960, after the construction of a new, larger church near the rectory, the church was profaned and used as a youth center until 1987. The windows and the organ were destroyed. In the meantime, the building was even thought of being demolished. Only the most necessary maintenance measures were carried out. Around 1990, however, the presbytery decided to carry out a general overhaul and set up a usage concept. The old church should be available as a multicultural meeting and event space.
The church has been restored several times: the first restorations took place between 1976 and 1987. From 1993 to 1998 the restorer Manfred Schöndorf (Rottweiler) continued to renovate, including repairs to the leaded glass windows. The building received a house connection room, a chair store, a tea kitchen and a toilet. The altar was removed, the pulpit remained. During this time, Christel Bernard carried out archaeological investigations. This confirmed the assumption that a previous building must have existed from high to late medieval times.
Architecture and equipment
The simple hall building with a three-sided end in the east is structured by plaster strips . In the west sits a slate octagonal roof turret on the hipped roof . The street side of the church has three axes, of which the two outer high rectangular windows with flat segment arches and keystones accommodate. In the middle axis is the baroque entrance portal with double wing door and profiled walls. An oculus sits above it . The interior of the church is spanned by a wooden flat ceiling that was originally painted over with a starry sky. A wooden gallery has been preserved.
Two simple writing plates as gravestones by Jacob Christian Wolfanger († 1759) and Anna Margarethe Fleck († 1761) have also been preserved. The couple donated a considerable sum to the building of the church. The grave slabs were originally set into the ground, but were added during the renovation of the floor in 1923 and built into the church wall next to the entrance.
literature
- Hans Caspary, Wolfgang Götz, Ekkart Klinge (arrangement): Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland . (= Georg Dehio (†): Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984, p. 1122
Web links
- The Protestant churches in Neunkirchen , Saar art dictionary
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sub-monument list of the district town of Neunkirchen ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. , State Monument List of Saarland, State Monument Authority Saar, p. 12
- ↑ Rudolf Bartel: The Stegelkirche Wellesweiler , Barockstraße Saarpfalz, accessed on November 13, 2015
Coordinates: 49 ° 20 ′ 56.26 " N , 7 ° 13 ′ 34.38" E