Notre-Dame-du-Chêne (Plobsheim)
Notre-Dame-du-Chêne (also Sainte-Marie-du-Chêne ; German: Our Lady of the Oak ) is a Roman Catholic church in the Alsatian community of Plobsheim . It is under monument protection as a monument historique .
history
The late Gothic church is located south of the village on the Rhine-Rhône Canal . A chapel in two courtyards was first mentioned in 1351 . After the destruction in the Hundred Years War by the Armagnaks , the church was rebuilt in 1451 at the request of the knight Adam Zorn, a returnee of the Crusades . The nave dates from this time. The choir was built around 1500. In 1570 the Zorn family joined the Reformation and the church became Protestant. As early as 1589 the church became a Catholic again. From the Middle Ages to the French Revolution, the church was an annual place of pilgrimage for the Strasbourg bakers' guild. From 1648 a hermit lived by the chapel.
In 1809 the interior of the chapel was restored and the choir repainted. In addition, two new side altars were purchased. In 1812 the Franciscan Joseph Berger moved into the hermit's accommodation and had the church and apartment renovated. In 1817 he sold the church to the Strasbourg banker and later mayor Jean-Frédéric de Turckheim . In 1866 the church administration of Plobsheim acquired the chapel. In 1905 the chapel received a new high altar. In 1981 the interior of the church was renovated.
architecture
The flat-roofed hall church was built over a rectangular floor plan and ends in the east in an elongated, drawn-in choir with a three-sided end and ribbed vault. A wooden choir screen formerly separated the nave and choir.
The choir has five windows: one on each long side and one on each end. A profiled keel arch leads to the choir. On the west side a large door with a segment arch leads into a prayer room. Above is a wooden gallery with a door and window to the living area.
On the west side is a building, which consists of stone on the ground floor and half-timbered above. The ground floor is intended as a prayer room, the upper floor as a living room.
On the north and south side there are two windows with tracery. The entrance portal with a keel arch is also located here. The extension in the west has a walled-up arched portal on the south side. In the northern portal with a keel arch in the lintel is the inscription: 1812 / HEIT DEN 20. MAY / IS UPRIGHTED BY MR / FRANTZ JOSEPH BERGER / BORN IN ERSTEIN. The upper floor has five window axes on the west side and two each on the north and south sides.
On the south side there is a small sacristy in the corner between the nave and the choir. On the gable roof of the nave in the west sits a closed roof turret over a square floor plan.
Furnishing
In the center of the flat ceiling there is an oval ceiling painting of the Assumption of the Virgin . In the neo-Gothic high altar there is a mother of God (early 17th century).
The choir windows date from 1946 and show the history of the church as well as donors and coats of arms. They come from the glass painter Ott. In the prayer room on the western front side there is a semicircular window with stained glass by Ott, including a Pieta. In the prayer room there is also a depiction of the Mount of Olives from the 17th and 18th centuries. Century.
There are also wooden statues of St. Wendelin and an Antonius of Padua from the 18th / 29th centuries Century. In the nave there are figures of the evangelists Markus and Johannes, who come from Riquewihr .
literature
- Walter Hotz : Handbook of the art monuments in Alsace and Lorraine . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1973, p. 291
- Dominique Toursel-Harster, Jean-Pierre Beck, Guy Bronner: Alsace. Dictionnaire des monuments historiques . La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg 1995, p. 326f
- Eugène Ortlieb: Notre Dame-du-Chêne, le plus ancien pélerinage marial d'Alsace . In: Annuaire de la Société d'histoire des quatre cantons , 2002, No. 20, pp. 29-37
Web links
- Dossier on the church in the Alsace region
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry no. PA00084895 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '35.3 " N , 7 ° 42' 49.3" E