St. Ludwig catholic church, Saarlouis

St. Ludwig and St. Peter and Paul is a Catholic church located at the Grosser Markt in Saarlouis. The parish was founded in 1685 in connection with the construction of the fortress of Saarlouis and today includes about 4000 Catholics. Since 2012, it has formed the parish community "Saarlouis - Links der Saar" with the parishes of St. Crispinus and Crispinianus, St. Peter and Paul, St. Medardus and St. Mary in Picard. The church is assigned to the diocese of Trier. The main patrocinium day is the commemoration day of St. Louis of France on August 25. The second patrocinium day of the church is the feast of Peter and Paul on June 29. The construction of the Catholic church can also be seen in the context of Louis XIV's re-Catholicization measures in the wake of the Reunion policy on the middle Saar in the second half of the 17th century. The formerly baroque building underwent numerous transformations in the course of its history. In the 19th century, for example, the baroque building was replaced in two stages by a new neo-Gothic building. Its nave was replaced in the 20th century by a concrete building designed by the architect Gottfried Böhm in the style of Brutalism. From the neo-Gothic building, the front of the tower by the architect Vincenz Statz has survived to this day.