Kappelturm

Kappelturm

Late Gothic tracery on the tower

The Kappelturm is the Gothic tower of the associated market chapel in the French town of Obernai (German Oberehnheim ) in Alsace ( Bas-Rhin department ).

The tower is classified as a monument historique , the chapel is registered in the register of cultural heritage in France.

history

Shortly before 1285 the chapel of Our Lady was built. In 1474 it was enlarged and known as the Kappelkirche. After the nave was laid down in 1873, only the choir and the mighty five-storey tower, which also serves as the city's bell tower, remain of this church.

The Gothic tower bears a pointed slate helmet over a cantilevered tracery scaffolding built by Georg Widemann in 1596/97 with turrets placed over a corner. Inside it has two bells from the 15th century .

The tower of the Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption church in neighboring Bernardswiller was modeled on the Kappel tower in 1866/67.

literature

• Walter Hotz : Handbook of the art monuments in Alsace and Lorraine . Darmstadt 1976, p. 183f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kappelturm in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
2. ↑ Chapel in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

Commons : Kappelturm, Obernai  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '43.3 "  N , 7 ° 28' 53.8"  E