Notre-Dame-des-Sablons (Aigues-Mortes)

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West portal
Memorial plaque to the crusades on the west portal
Interior to the east

Notre-Dame-des-Sablons Church is the main Roman Catholic church in Aigues-Mortes . Here on August 25, 1248, the crusaders of the Sixth and on July 1, 1270 those of the Seventh Crusade were blessed by the cardinal legates Odo von Châteauroux and R. de Chevrières before they left .

history

The previous church was mentioned as early as 1188. The exact construction time of today's church building is not known, but it is assumed that the church was built before the fortifications around the city and when King Louis IX, the saint and his troops disembarked for the sixth crusade, i.e. in the middle of the 13th century, already stood. Notre Dame des Sablons is the last structural testimony to these events.

In 1537 the church was converted into a collegiate monastery. Aigues-Mortes became Huguenot during the Reformation . The Protestants looted the collegiate monastery in 1575.

In 1634 the church tower collapsed. Debris also hit the nave and the church was no longer usable for about 100 years. The church service took place in the chapel of the White Penitents (Pénitents blancs) at this time. The building was not restored until 1738 to 1744.

In the French Revolution , the church was secularized and again until 1804 again consecrated . For this it was given a classicist - neo-baroque interior. This was eliminated from 1964 to 1967. From 1991, Claude Viallat equipped the church with 31 modern stained glass windows .

The church has been a listed building since 1949, and since 1990 also because of a Gallo-Roman altar that serves as the base of an anvil .

Building

The church is a rather undemanding structure. It is designed as a three-aisled, Gothic hall church , which is not vaulted, but is covered by an open roof structure.

The ringing consists of three bells, the largest of which has a diameter of 1.07 m and dates from 1740.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memorial plaque on the west portal of the church, which states , among other things: "Dieu le veut" (without further reference to the source).
  2. ↑ Notre Dame des Sablons on Base Mérimée .
  3. ^ Marc Guitteny: La Camargue . Boumian, Monaco 1990, p. 73.
  4. ↑ Notre Dame des Sablons on Base Mérimée .

Coordinates: 43 ° 34 ′ 0.8 ″  N , 4 ° 11 ′ 26 ″  E