Église protestante St-Étienne (Mittelbergheim)

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Church of Saint-Etienne in Mittelbergheim

The Église protestante St-Étienne is a church building of the Lutheran Protestant Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine in Mittelbergheim ( Département Bas-Rhin ) in France . The church is inscribed on the register of cultural heritage in France.

history

The oldest part of the church, consecrated to the holy arch-martyr Stephen , is the Romanesque choir tower , which goes back to a St. Stephen's chapel from around 1180. At the turn of the 13th to 14th century, the nave was lengthened and widened, and the tower was raised. In the 15th century, the choir room in the tower basement was rebuilt and the tower was raised by another floor. After the Reformation was introduced to the church in 1554, the tower was added another floor.

In 1695, by order of the French government, a simultaneum was introduced at the church and the choir was given to the Catholics as a chapel. The Simultaneum ended in 1894 with the consecration of the new Roman Catholic Church in Mittelbergheim, also dedicated to Saint Stephen ( Saint-Étienne ).

literature

  • Suzanne Braun: Alsace romane . Dijon 2010, pp. 290f.
  • Walter Hotz: Handbook of the art monuments in Elass and in Lorraine . Darmstadt 1976, p. 154.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IA00115378 Saint-Etienne in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

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

Coordinates: 48 ° 23 ′ 42.6 "  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 39.8"  E