Silent Chapel
The Stumm chapel in Neunkirchen (Saar) is the former family chapel of the Stumm entrepreneurial family . It is a neo-Gothic hall chapel built in the middle of the 19th century . Today the building is considered the earliest neo-Gothic building in the region and marked the beginning of historicism in architecture on the Saar .
history
The chapel was once part of a landscape garden in Niederneunkirchen , which was connected to the north-west of the mansion of the Carl Friedrich Stumm family, which they moved into in 1839 . The garden was created between 1837 and 1844 based on the model of English parks and was decorated in 1845 with two free-standing neo-Gothic cast-iron pinnacles made on the Neunkirchen ironworks . The chapel was designed by the municipal architect Mathias Mußweiler from St. Wendel between 1852 and 1854 on behalf of the widow Marie Louise Stumm . Until the Carl Ferdinand Stumm family moved to Halberg Castle near Saarbrücken in 1880, it served as the Stumms' private chapel, after which it was rarely used. In 1933 the chapel was damaged by the gasometer explosion in Neunkirchen , and in 1945 it was burned down by artillery fire . The building fell into disrepair and the bell was melted down. In 1983 the chapel was placed under monument protection. In 1987 the property with the chapel came into municipal ownership and was documented for the first time. In the following year the chapel was renovated, the roof and the vault renewed.
The chapel is located on a hill above Lindenallee directly at the marshalling yard of Neunkircher Hauptbahnhof and is part of the Neunkircher Hüttenweg industrial hiking trail .
architecture
The cross-rib vaulted hall building is entered via a pointed arch portal. A gable made of red sandstone towers over the portal . The three-sided choir has two large windows and a central niche. Outwardly, the church is adorned with small, neo-Gothic ornamental forms, especially on the portal side. The corner buttresses were equipped with four pinnacles similar to the four pinnacles of the tower until the Second World War . Two of the four pinnacles of the tower have been preserved.
literature
- Kristine Marschall: Sacred buildings of historicism in Neunkirchen - sponsor churches of the Stumm era . In: Rainer Knauf and Christof Trepesch (eds.): Neunkircher Stadtbuch . District town Neunkirchen, 2005, ISBN 3-00-015932-0 , p. 471-482 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Stummsche Chapel in Neunkirchen , brochure of the Saarland Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Transport (PDF; 543 kB)
- ↑ List of monuments in the Saarland, Neunkirchen district (PDF; 1.3 MB), p. 16
Coordinates: 49 ° 20 ′ 59 ″ N , 7 ° 10 ′ 3 ″ E