Holy Cross Church (Kaysersberg)
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The Holy Cross Church ( French Invention-de-la-Sainte-Croix ) is a Roman Catholic church in the Alsatian town of Kaysersberg . The building is listed as a monument historique .
history
The oldest part of the church is the west gable end with a portal from the 12th century. The church was built between 1227 and 1230 as a three-aisled basilica made of red sandstone. At first the church was consecrated to the Virgin Mary, from 1401 then the Holy Cross Church. In 1448 the south aisle was enlarged and in 1522 the north. According to dendrochronological studies, the roof structure dates from 1508. In 1788/89 the architect Alexandre Chassain changed the inclination of the roof. In the years 1826 to 1829 the church got a high neo-Romanesque crossing tower according to plans by Colmar architect Louis Pétin . In the middle of the 19th century, the architect D. Poisat extensively restored the church building.
architecture
The current building is the result of constant changes from the 12th to the 19th century. The portal dates from the last quarter of the 12th century and was still created in the Romanesque tradition. The edges of the garment are chamfered and decorated with balls. In each of the three recesses there are round columns, the capitals of which show animals and masks. The tympanum in the arched field shows a coronation of Mary and is supported by mask consoles. A figure of St. Helena (1889) with a cross in an ogival niche under a Gothic canopy.
Sainte-Croix was built in the 13th century as a three-aisled basilica made of red sandstone. The nave with three bays is followed by a weak transept and a choir with a three-sided end in the east. It has two yokes with side choirs and sacristies. The unevenly wide naves were rebuilt and extended in a Gothic style. In front of the square pillars of the main nave are semicircular pillars on which the ribbed vaults, belt arches and arcades between the central and side aisles rest. The capitals are usually in the shape of buds, sometimes with heads, and date from the time they were built. On the crossing there is a three-storey bell tower with a square floor plan in the neo-Romanesque style. Gothic tracery windows illuminate the interior of the church. Simple buttresses and gargoyles attest to the building during the Gothic period.
Furnishing
The interior of the church is predominantly late Gothic. This also includes two baptismal fonts, the younger one with animal figures, from the 15th century. There is a holy grave in the north transept . Under an arched niche lies the body of Christ, accompanied by three women and two angels. The author is unknown, but an inscription reveals that the work of art was renewed and expanded by Jacob Wirth in 1514. The choir stalls were created in the 15th century and have carved drolleries on the cheeks, misericords and reliefs on the back wall. In the pointed triumphal arch sits a wooden lintel on which a crucifixion group by an unknown master from the 15th century stands. The two baroque wooden altars with statues of St. Joseph and Maria are from the late baroque (18th / 19th century).
The church has a winged altar as a retable with carved reliefs of the Passion of Christ. Christ and the twelve apostles are depicted in the predella , and several figures of saints are crowned. The altar was created around 1518 by Colmar Hans Bongart (also spelled “Bongartz”) and his master student Wendelin Steinbrunn. The outside was painted by Mathis Wuest in 1621.
organ
The organ sits on a wooden, semicircular curved gallery on the west gable. The baroque organ front and the organ were created by Joseph Waltrin in 1720. In 1734 Andreas Silbermann revised the instrument. In 1770 Jacques Besançon rebuilt the organ again. The organ was damaged during the French Revolution. Joseph Bergäntzel repaired this damage in 1807. In 1879 Martin Rinckenbach rebuilt the organ and in 1958 Ernest Muhleisen again .
literature
- Walter Hotz : Handbook of the art monuments in Alsace and Lorraine. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1976, p. 100f
- Dominique Toursel-Harster, Jean-Pierre Beck, Guy Bronner: Dictionnaire des Monuments historiques d'Alsace. La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg 1995, pp. 188f
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry no. PA00085477 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ The organ of Sainte-Croix in Kaysersberg ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , A la découverte de l'Orgue, Orgues d'Alsace, accessed November 6, 2016
