Hotel de la Monnaie (Vic-sur-Seille)
The Hôtel de la Monnaie in Vic-sur-Seille , a French commune in the Moselle department in the historic Lorraine region , was built between 1456 and 1484. The "former episcopal coin " in the Rue Vignon was added to the list of architectural monuments in France in 1930 as Monument historique .
There is no evidence that the building served as a mint. Rather, it is certain that the money changer Hoffelize lived there.
The Hôtel de la Monnaie has an extraordinary décor in the style of Flamboyant Gothic with first hints of the Renaissance .
Franz Xaver Kraus writes: “... one of the most interesting and best preserved late-Gothic private buildings in the country. Charming late-Gothic windows, cross floors with extremely beautiful masonry panels. Gargoyles on the corner, below a niche with a rich canopy, under which a late Gothic statue of the Madonna as Queen of Heaven on the crescent moon. (...) Two beautiful friezes separate the three floors of the house. "
Madonna
Four coupled windows
Detail over a window
literature
- Franz Xaver Kraus: Art and antiquity in Alsace-Lorraine. III. Volume Lothringen, CF Schmidts Universitäts-Buchhandlung, Strasbourg 1889, p. 1021 ( digitized ).
Web links
- L'Hôtel de la Monnaie (text from the municipality of Vic-sur-Seille)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hôtel de la Monnaie in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 55.2 " N , 6 ° 31 ′ 49.5" E