Église protestante Saint-Martin (Barr)

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Saint Martin Church in Barr
Romanesque figure decorations on the choir tower

The Église protestante Saint-Martin is a church building of the Lutheran Protestant Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine in Barr ( Département Bas-Rhin ) in France . The tower of the parish church has been registered as a monument historique since 1935 .

history

The richly structured Romanesque choir tower from the last quarter of the 12th century comes from a previous building consecrated to Saint Martin of Tours . There are numerous figurative representations on its frieze consoles, including Saint Martin. The top floor was built in the late Gothic period.

The Romanesque church, where the Reformation was finally introduced in 1568 , was replaced in 1850/52 by a representative new building in classicist forms. The old organ built by Johann Andreas Silbermann , which was replaced by a new instrument by Joseph Stiehr , which included parts of the Silbermann organ, did not meet the requirements of the new church interior . Most of the Silbermann organ ended up in the church of St. Arbogast in Saint-Pierre, Alsace .

literature

  • Suzanne Braun: Alsace romane . Dijon 2010, pp. 288f.
  • Walter Hotz: Handbook of the art monuments in Elass and in Lorraine . Darmstadt 1976, p. 14f.

Individual evidence

  1. Saint-Martin in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

Commons : Saint-Martin Protestant Church (Barr)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 33.7 "  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 51.5"  E