Jacobin Church Poligny
The Jacobin Church (French: Eglise des Jacobins ) in Poligny was built in the 13th century in the Gothic style. It has served as a wine cellar since 1907.
history
The construction of the church was started in 1241 by Otto III. , Count of Bourgogne , decided. It was intended to serve the growing population of Poligny as a parish church led by canons. Otto died before completion in 1248. His sister Alix had the church completed by 1276 and then handed it over to the Dominican Order . The Dominicans lived in the adjacent monastery for five centuries. There were several fires and partial destruction, for example in 1501 and 1638 in the Swedish-French War . Each time the church was rebuilt with public support.
During the French Revolution in 1790, the monks had to leave the monastery for good. Their property was expropriated and sold in favor of the tax authorities , the church was initially empty. In 1795 a powder factory moved there, which existed until 1812. Until the end of the 19th century the church served as a granary. The Poligny winegrowers' cooperative (Coopérative Viticole de Poligny) has been using the church as a wine cellar since 1907. The cloister was demolished in the 1950s.
architecture
The church, built in a simple Gothic style, is 46 meters long, 28 meters wide and 16 meters high. It has a large central nave and two small aisles on either side. The north side has five small chapels that are interconnected, and two more on the other side of the choir. Members of important families from Poligny are buried there. The nave, which ends in a choir with a five-sided apse , is divided into five sections by vaulted yokes . On the inner side of the facade there is another vault from 1715, which houses the grandstand for the organ. The exterior facade in the classical style has a large gate framed by two pilasters. They are supported by entablature with a frieze adorned with a triglyph . Above this is a gable with an arched projection. Between the side arcades there are strings of three pillars each with a relief. They end at the beginning of the vault and connect with the branches of the transverse arches. The vault is formed by four-part pointed arches. The arcades also end in pointed arches on both sides. There is a triforium in one of the vaulted yokes .
The high church windows are only on the south side. The first pillars seen from the entrance are in the Saint-Denis style , the following ones in the Chartres style . The capitals are decorated in many ways, mostly with plant motifs. In the apse there had been a large altar made of red, white and black marble since 1698, the reliefs of which were covered with gold leaf. In the center of the choir there was a depiction of the Assumption by the painter Adrien Richard.
Location of the equipment
The altar and tabernacle as well as the pulpit from 1736 were transferred to the collegiate church of Saint-Hippolyte in Poligny after the Jacobin Church was dissolved . The organ, built by Marin Carouge in 1721, was brought to the Champagnole church in 1792 . Some statues of the church ended up in museums, such as a St. Paul from the school of Claus de Werve and two other statues, which also come from Poligny, but whose origin is not clearly established, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Coordinates: 46 ° 50 ′ 6.1 " N , 5 ° 42 ′ 34.8" E
Footnotes
- ↑ Champagnole, Orgue Marin Carouge ( Memento of the original dated November 16, 2008 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.
- ^ William H. Forsyth: Three fifteenth-century sculptures from Poligny. In: Metropolitan museum journal 22.1987, pp. 71–91
