Holy Spirit Church (Strasbourg)

The Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit is located near the western exit of Strasbourg and is a branch of the city ​​parish . In 1337, Bishop Gerold founded a hospital here, probably with a church. The first reliable mention of the church comes from 1407.

Building description

The church consists of an early Gothic rotunda with a baroque renewed dome, a Gothic choir and Baroque side choirs built into the corners of the choir. The northern side choir merges with the baroque sacristy . A richly structured roof turret with a double lantern from the 19th century rises above the choir . Low Gothic buttresses support the choir. There are two baroque buttresses on the north side of the rotunda. A small Baroque Man of Sorrows is set up in a niche by the choir . The crucifix dates from the 18th century. Gravestones from the Biedermeier era are walled in on the buttresses . There is a simple, Gothic portal on the south side. The pointed arched, profiled, Gothic main portal is in the connecting passage between the church and the former hospital.

The walls of the rotunda are structured by stucco strips and frame fields. Triumphal arch-like, round-arch framed openings lead into the choir and the side choirs. A baroque flat barrel with stabbed caps rises above the choir with three-eighths closure . The shallow barrel was decorated with rich, high-quality stucco around 1730. The figures of faith, love and hope, symbolizing the Christian virtues , are shown in three-pass fields. There is a Gothic sacrament niche in the choir . An iron-studded door provides access to the groin-vaulted sacristy with a 17th-century interior. The two side choirs have baroque ridge vaults with stucco garlands from around 1700.

The wall painting was created around 1330 and was discovered and exposed in the 1950s and 1971. A mercy seat and saints can be seen above the triumphal arch . On the north wall of the choir, the Coronation of Mary , including the Pentecostal miracle and saints, are shown. There are also painted crosses of the Apostles . The tombstone of Bishop Otto II. De la Bourde († 1708) stands on the northern triumphal arch .

Facility

The high altar , created around 1720, shows the Pentecostal miracle in the middle picture with rich framing and stuccoed, canopy-like drapery. The side figures of the plague saints Rochus and Sebastian were created by Michael Hönel in 1632 . Behind the side figures are the somewhat smaller figures of Saints Martin and Elisabeth . The altar also has a tabernacle from the first half of the 18th century and a carved antependium from the beginning of the 18th century.

The side altars are coordinated with the high altar. The altar paintings show the Madonna on the left and Saint Anne with the Virgin reading and Saint Joseph on the right. On the left altar are the statuettes of Saints Franz Xavier and Johannes Nepomuk . Statuettes of Saints Ulrich and Valentin are on the right side altar .

Statuettes of the church fathers are attached to the pulpit from the first quarter of the 18th century in the flat niches of the pulpit . The crucifixion group consists of a crucifix from the second half of the 18th century and assistant figures from the first half of the 18th century. The oil paintings date from the late 17th century and show the crowning of thorns, the Annunciation , the coronation of Mary, the sermon of John the Baptist, the mourning Mary, the risen and the flagellation. A late Gothic holy water font is also part of the church's equipment. A Madonna statue made around 1450 is in safekeeping.

literature

• Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , p. 928 f.
• Siegfried Hartwagner: Austrian Art Monograph Volume VIII: Carinthia. The St. Veit an der Glan district . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1977, ISBN 3-900173-22-2 , p. 238f.

Coordinates: 46 ° 53 ′ 35.4 "  N , 14 ° 19 ′ 34.5"  E