Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux
The Catholic parish church of Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux in Rue des Blancs-Manteaux No. 12 in the 4th arrondissement of Paris dates back to the establishment of a mendicant order in the Marais district in the 13th century. The current church was built at the end of the 17th century in the classicist Baroque style. In 1983 the church was added to the list of French cultural monuments as Monument historique . The nearest metro stations are Hôtel de Ville , Rambuteau or Saint-Paul on lines 1 and 11 .
history
In 1258, the Servites , literally the servants of the Virgin Mary (Ordo Servorum Mariae) , founded a branch of their order on the right bank of the Seine in Paris, in the Marais, with the support of the French King Louis the Saint . They were brothers of a mendicant order and wore undyed robes as a sign of their humility, which is why they were known colloquially as "Blancs-Manteaux" (white coats). When Pope Gregory X banned many of the newly founded mendicant orders, including the Servites, at the Second Council of Lyon in 1274 , the Wilhelmites (Order of the Hermits of Saint Wilhelm) received their goods and monastery buildings. Although the latter wore black frocks, they kept the name Blancs-Manteaux . In 1618 the Wilhelmites joined the Benedictines of the Congregation of Saint-Maur , who established their novitiate there.
In the course of the expansion of the Benedictine order, new monastery buildings were built from 1685 to 1690 under the prior Dom Antoine de Machy according to the plans of the architect Charles Duval . A window in the ambulatory represents the laying of the foundation stone of today's church in 1685. In 1863, Victor Baltard extended the church by a yoke and added the classical portal to the south facade. The latter was created in 1703 by Jean-Sylvain Cartaud (1675-1758) for the former church of Saint-Eloi of the Barnabites on the Île de la Cité in Paris.
As a result of the revolution of 1789, the monastery was dissolved and the buildings sold. After the Concordat of 1801 , the church was reopened for worship. In 1807 the city of Paris acquired the church and Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux became a parish church.
architecture
The main portal of the church is on the south facade. The nave extends over six yokes and flows to the north into a half-round closed choir . The nave is with one of lunettes perforated barrel vault covered, which on a wide, with decorated corbels provided cornice rests. On both sides of the main nave, arched arcades open to the narrow side aisles. They rest on mighty pillars on which fluted pilasters with Corinthian capitals are placed. Reliefs with symbolic representations of the Old and New Testaments and medallions with the busts of apostles and saints are carved over the arches, which also lead around the choir .
Leaded glass window
The lead glass windows in the east ambulatory were created in 1946 by Raphaël Lardeur. They depict scenes from the history of the monastery: the founding of the monastery by Louis the Saint, the takeover of the monastery by the Wilhelmites, the laying of the foundation stone of today's church in 1685 by Chancellor Cellier, the establishment of the Carmelite Sisters in Paris by Cardinal Pierre de Bérulle and Madame Barbe Acarie .
organ
The organ was built by Louis Callinet (1786–1846). In 1867 it was restored by Joseph Merklin and in 1964 by the Alsatian organ building company Alfred Kern & fils . The organ case was designed by Marcellin Varcollier in 1864. The organ loft goes back to the 17th century. It rests on six columns with Ionic capitals . The instrument has 42 registers on four manuals and a pedal . The Spieltrakturen are mechanically, the Registertrakturen electrically.
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Furnishing
- The stone sculpture of a Madonna and Child comes from the 14th century.
- The painting of the Assumption of Mary is attributed to François Perrier (around 1590–1650). In the baptistery there are the paintings Death of Saint Anna from 1640 by the Nuremberg painter Joachim von Sandrart (1606–1688) and The Wonderful Multiplication of Bread by Claude Audran the Younger (1639–1684). In 1970, more paintings from the early 17th century were housed here, the subjects of which relate to the Old Testament, e.g. B .: The meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek , Moses strikes the rock , The collecting of the manna , David and Achimelech .
- The pulpit dates from 1749 and was purchased in the 19th century. It is a Rococo work and probably a work in southern Germany. Biblical scenes are depicted on panels with incrustations made of wood, pewter and ivory . The sound cover is crowned with the figure of the Archangel Michael , who defeated Lucifer . The four evangelists sit at his feet .
literature
- Georges Brunel, Marie-Laure Deschamps-Bourgeon, Yves Gagneux: Dictionnaire des Églises de Paris . Éditions Hervas, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-903-118-77-9 , pp. 151-153.
- Jean Colson, Marie-Christine Lauroa (ed.): Dictionnaire des Monuments de Paris . Éditions Hervas, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-84334-001-2 , pp. 531-533.
- Aline Dumoulin, Alexandra Ardisson, Jérôme Maingard, Murielle Antonello: Paris. D'Église en Église . Éditions Massin, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7072-0583-4 , pp. 102-104.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ More information on the organ , accessed on March 11, 2016
Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 32 " N , 2 ° 21 ′ 27.5" E