Evangelical Church Domfessel
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The Evangelical Church in Domfessel (sometimes also St-Gall after the original patronage of St. Gall ) is a church building of the Evangelical Lutheran Protestant Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine . As a former fortified church, it dates back to the 14th century and is a listed monument as a monument historique .
history
The church was built at the instigation of Heinrich III. von Saar Werden in the second quarter of the 14th century. It has served the Protestant community as a place of worship since the 16th century. In November 1877 the building was classified as a Monument historique. The church was badly damaged in World War II. It could not be renovated until 1957.
architecture
The church is a three-aisled basilica with a square west tower and ⅝ choir. A strong buttress supports the church from the outside. Animal figures adorn the crowning of the pillars, some of them also function as gargoyles . The middle choir struts are supported in the wall zone by polygonal columns. The secondary choirs are closed on both sides. The upper part of the south portal is designed as a window. A profiled garment frames the portal.
The high walls of the four-bay nave rest on six columns, the continuation of which is supported by the vaults. Pointed arches sit between the pillars as a passage from the central to the side aisles. The walls of the aisles are decorated with ogival wall panels.
There are tall, slender windows in the choir. On the south side there is a wall structure with tracery and rosettes. Originally the niches in the upper part were painted with cross rosettes. A door with a lintel decorated in relief leads to a domed room that is used as a sacristy. A decorated niche served as a piscinium . On the north side there is a sacrament niche with an oculus and another recess in the wall.
The church was originally a fortified church. A wall surrounds the church. A gate building with an attached guard house forms the entrance. From here you could previously patrol over the wall via a battlement. The tower with a pointed buckling helmet was at times the fortified church waiting and can only be accessed from the from inside the church. The guard's room is on the second of four floors. A narrow stair tower can be seen on the south side. The tower only has slot-like window openings on the three lower floors . Only the sound openings on the top floor are designed as Gothic tracery windows.
Furnishing
The original stained glass windows were removed in the Second World War by order of the Office for the Protection of Monuments in Strasbourg and kept in Strasbourg. However, they did not return after the war and were installed in a Strasbourg church. Today's windows are equipped with colored glass and were used in the mid-1990s.
literature
- Walter Hotz: Handbook of the art monuments in Alsace and Lorraine. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1976, p. 43f.
- Dominique Toursel-Harster, Jean-Pierre Beck, Guy Bronner: Dictionnaire des Monuments historiques d'Alsace . La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg 1995, p. 116f.
- Becker Line: L'église Saint-Gall de Domfessel (Bas-Rhin) . In: Cahiers alsaciens d'archéologie d'art et d'histoire , 2002, No. 45, pp. 95-107.
- Rodolphe Brodt: L'église fortifiée de Domfessel: défenses et défenseurs, Alsace Bossue médiévale . In: Pays d'Alsace , 2009, No. 227, pp. 3-10.
- Rodolphe Brodt: Domfessel: du bon usage de l'église fortifiée . In Société d'histoire de l'Alsace-Bossue , 2012, no. 66, pp. 20-39.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry no. PA00084693 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 57 '6.4 " N , 7 ° 9" 7.6 " E