Stummsche Kapelle, Former church building in Brebach-Fechingen, Saarbrücken, Germany
The Stumm-Kirche is a former Protestant church in Brebach-Fechingen, built 1880–1882 to a design by Ferdinand Schorbach in Rhenish Neo-Romanesque style. It is a four-bay rectangular hall with a flat wooden ceiling, a slightly recessed west tower and a rounded apse with seven round-arched windows framed outside by arches. The facade is divided by pilasters and arched friezes; the north portal, reserved for the Stumm family, bears their coat of arms with the consecration year.
The church was built between 1880 and 1882 to a design by the Hanover architect Ferdinand Schorbach and consecrated on 18 June 1882. Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg commissioned it for his family and the Protestant workers of the Halbergerhütte, who were obliged to attend services. In 1936 the Braun von Stumm brothers gave the building to the congregation, which abandoned it in 1972/1973; it was deconsecrated and sold.
The Stumm family chose the first pastor in exchange for supporting the congregation, and the north entrance was reserved for them; they arrived by carriage from Halberg Castle. The building is now used for agriculture, and its interior furnishings were lost after deconsecration.
The former church stands in the Stummstraße in Brebach-Fechingen, surrounded by the grounds of a former cemetery. It is now used for agriculture, so the interior is not open to visitors; the exterior, with its apse and the Stumm family coat of arms above the north entrance, can be viewed from the street.
The north entrance was reserved for the Stumm family, who came by carriage from Halberg Castle; its gable bears the family coat of arms with the year of consecration, 1882. The church was deconsecrated in the 1970s and later served as a sheepfold and warehouse, which destroyed the original interior fittings.
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