Assumption of Mary (Bergheim)
Assumption of the Virgin Mary ( French Assomption-de-la-Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie , also Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption ) is a Roman Catholic church in the Alsatian municipality of Bergheim . It is under monument protection as a monument historique .
history
The church was built between 1320 and 1347 on the remains of a previous Romanesque building from 705 that was destroyed in a fire in 1287. In 1718 the Gothic building was redesigned. The vaults were hung with a flat ceiling and the arches between the central and side aisles were changed. In 1725 the tower was also redesigned and raised with a baroque tower. In 1819 the Chapel of the Holy Helper was built on the south side . At the end of the 19th century, the church in the south also received a neo-Gothic sacristy . In 1959, several frescoes were discovered and restored during renovation work . In 1993/94 the church was renovated for the last time and repainted inside.
architecture
The Church of the Assumption of Mary was built as a three-aisled Gothic basilica made of red sandstone. With the redesign in the 18th century, the vaults of the central and side aisles were clad with a flat ceiling, making the church a pseudo-basilica . The central and side aisles are separated by round arches on Tuscan columns . The nave has eight window axes with tracery and is closed off by a two-bay choir with a five-sided apse . In front of the nave in the west there is a four-story tower with a square floor plan. The top floor is octagonal and set back. The resulting gallery is protected by a stone balustrade . Figures of the four evangelists stand between the clock gables decorated with volutes . A pointed helmet covers the tower. The neo-Gothic fourteen helper chapel is a small hall building with a three-sided end and is now mainly used as a baptistery.
Furnishing
Numerous remains from the Gothic period have survived on the outside. In the tympanum of the pointed arch jambs in West Portal, a worship is Magi received. On the southern long side there are remains of a niche or a vestment that shows a scene of the Last Judgment. Another niche with tracery is painted with an Adoration of the Magi. The vaulted ceiling in the vestibule in the tower is also painted. Other murals from the 14th and 15th centuries show St. George fighting the dragon in the north aisle, Christ on the Mount of Olives on the north wall of the vestibule, a crucifixion scene and the veil of Veronica on the south wall and a crucifixion in the south aisle. In the Gothic choir there is a three-part late Gothic wall grave of the Lords of Hattstatt . There is also a wall niche with a coat of arms and the year 1601. In the choir there is a neo-Gothic altar with a tabernacle. The carved reredos shows four saints and is crowned by Christ. The late baroque and classicist side altars show in the south the “award of the rosary to St. Dominic ”and an“ Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto ”and on the north side of the triumphal arch the“ Adoration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus with Catherine of Alexandria ”. The church's sacred art also includes wood carvings, including Baroque figures of Mary and John, a Joachim and a St. Anna by Niclas Gerhaert van Leyden (around 1470).
A first organ was replaced around 1600. This instrument was moved to St. Jakobus in Hunawihr in 1749 . Already in 1740 the parish of Jodoc von Esch received a new organ. In 1879 a new instrument was purchased that Emile Wetzel had made from Bergheim. In 1903 Martin and Joseph Rinckenbach rebuilt the organ, but received the old prospectus . In 2005/06 Michel Gaillard from the Aubertin organ building company restored the organ. The organ sits on a wooden gallery at the western end of the nave.
literature
- Walter Hotz: Handbook of the art monuments in Alsace and Lorraine. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1976, p. 17
- Dominique Toursel-Harster, Jean-Pierre Beck, Guy Bronner: Dictionnaire des Monuments historiques d'Alsace. La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg 1995, p. 49f
Web links
- Assumption of Mary at www.petit-patrimoine.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry no. PA00085341 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ a b c website of the parish , accessed November 9, 2016
- ↑ The Bergheim Organ ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2010 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 9, 2016
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '18 " N , 7 ° 21' 53.3" E