Westhoffen Protestant Church
The Evangelical Church (after the old patronage also St-Martin ) is a church building of the Evangelical Lutheran Protestant Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine in the Alsatian parish of Westhoffen . It is under monument protection as a monument historique .
history
St-Martin was built in the Middle Ages and renovated between 1280 and 1330 by a master Conrad. In 1545 the Reformation took hold and the church became Protestant. From 1685, the local Catholics were also allowed to use the church. St-Martin became a simultaneous church. When the Westhoffen Catholics received their own church in 1866, St-Martin became Protestant. In the years 1869 to 1876 the church was extended by two bays to the west according to plans by the architect Charles Alexandre François Morin , the choir tower was demolished and replaced by a roof turret. In addition, a west tower was placed in front of the nave.
architecture
The church was built as a three-nave hall church and is one of the few examples of this type of building in Alsace. The nave with central and two side aisles has six window axes and five yokes with ribbed vaults. This is followed by a short transept. This is followed by a polygonal retracted choir, which originally had a choir tower. The vaults are supported by round columns with different capitals in neo-Gothic shapes.
The church is covered by a gable roof with a neo-Gothic roof turret at the eastern end. Buttresses with pinnacles support the long sides of the nave. On the west side of the nave sits a square bell tower with a portal, pushed slightly into the facade. Two octagonal stair towers flank it. The ogival portal is surmounted by an eyelash in whose tympanum sits a quadruple. Rich tracery and pinnacles decorate the tower. In the north side there is a second portal with a single-bay open vestibule and a protruding eyelash.
Furnishing
Significant stained glass have been preserved in the choir with tracery windows. Older cycles show scenes from the life of Christ and depictions of saints that were created at the end of the 13th century and were later combined with more recent individual depictions from the 14th century. The signature of a master Renboldus can be found in the northern window . In the nave there are windows of Melanchthon and Luther , John and Paul as well as a representation of the baptism of Christ and the crucifixion . These date from the 19th century and were created by Pierre Petit-Gérard .
The church also has a lavabo from around 1300 in the choir with a three-sided end .
literature
- Walter Hotz : Handbook of the art monuments in Alsace and Lorraine . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1973, p. 315
- Dominique Toursel-Harster, Jean-Pierre Beck, Guy Bronner: Alsace. Dictionnaire des monuments historiques . La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg 1995, pp. 621f
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry no. PA00085223 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '1.9 " N , 7 ° 26" 29.8 " E