Herz-Jesu-Kirche
Herz-Jesu-Kirche stands in Saarbrücken’s Burbach district as a neo-Romanesque Catholic church designed by Ludwig Becker and Anton Falkowski. Its double-tower façade rises above a three-aisled basilica. Inside, cross-shaped pillars, round arches and a large pendentive dome shape the view. The building belongs to the Diocese of Trier and is listed as a historical monument in Saarland.
Industrial growth brought steelworkers and miners to Burbach around 1900, and the expanding Catholic community needed another church. Burbach Hütte provided the site in 1910 and donated 50,000 marks toward construction. Work began in November 1912, while the foundation stone followed in May 1913. The first service took place in June 1914. Wartime damage left the church unusable until Fritz Thoma directed its reconstruction in 1950. Reinhard Heß designed the 1953 stained-glass windows around the Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. A new organ arrived in 1992, adding another detail to this rebuilt interior.
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