Front altar
Front altar is a seldom used term for the high altar of a Catholic church. The Middle High German vrōnaltar is derived from Old High German frō = "Lord", to which frōno = "(possession) of the gods, divine" belongs. An analogous word formation is " Corpus Christi ". The medieval high altar of the Strasbourg cathedral , which was removed in the 17th century, is regularly referred to in literature as the "front altar ".
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Kluge : Etymological dictionary of the German language . 20th edition. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1967
- ↑ for example Walter Hotz : Handbook of Art Monuments in Alsace and Lorraine. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1965.