Saint-Germer-de-Fly Abbey

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The abbey church

The Saint-Germer-de-Fly Abbey is a medieval Benedictine abbey in the commune of Saint-Germer-de-Fly in the Beauvais arrondissement in the Oise ( Hauts-de-France ) department in France . Only the Roman Catholic abbey church with the Sainte-Chapelle to the east is preserved. The abbey church is classified as a monument historique .

history

The Chapelle de la Vierge

The founding of the abbey in the 7th century is attributed to the high Franconian nobility, St. Germer who died around 658. In the 9th and 10th centuries, the abbey was destroyed during Norman invasions. The abbey also suffered during the Hundred Years War . In 1644 the abbey passed to the Congregation of Saint-Maur . During the French Revolution , the monastery was sold as a national good. The abbey buildings were demolished in 1790. The north transept was renewed in 1808. The abbey church and chapel are used as a parish church.

Abbey church

Floor plan of the abbey church

The 65 m long abbey church from the 12th century in the form of a Latin cross with a semicircular apse combines elements of the Romanesque and Gothic , especially in the choir . The vault height is 20 m. The current western end was built in the 16th century. The bell tower dates from 1754.

Lady Chapel

Rose window of the Lady Chapel

The high-Gothic, single-aisled Chapelle de la Vierge (Sainte-Chapelle) connected to the abbey church via a narrow passage was built on in the east between 1259 and 1267, modeled on the castle chapel of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris . It “shows the handwriting or at least the direct influence of Pierre de Montreuil ”. The rose window on the west facade continues the rose on the north transept facade of Reims Cathedral .

literature

  • Philippe Bonnet-Laborderie, Laurent Lecomte, Sylvie Lecomte: Deux chefs-d'œuvre de l'art gothique: l'église abbatiale et la "Sainte-Chapelle" de Saint-Germer-de-Fly . Bulletin No. 80-81. Groupe d'étude des monuments et œuvres d'art de l'Oise et du Beauvaisis (GEMOB), Beauvais 1997, 2006
  • Dietrich Lohrmann: Saint-Germer-de-Fly and the Anglo-Norman Empire . In: Francia - Research on Western European History. 1/1973. Digital collections of the Bavarian State Library .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günther Binding : What is Gothic? Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2000, p. 146
  2. ↑ Binding p. 209

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 35 "  N , 1 ° 46 ′ 48"  E