Notre-Dame-du-Travail (Paris)

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Notre-Dame-du-Travail

The Catholic parish church of Notre-Dame-du-Travail (Our Lady of Labor) was built around 1900 near the Montparnasse train station . The building, which is linked to Romanesque architecture in its forms , is an iron construction whose facades are clad with stone. The church is located at 59 rue Vercingétorix in the 14th arrondissement of Paris . The church was included in the list of French architectural monuments in 1976 as Monument historique . The nearest metro station is Pernety on line 13 .

history

After the construction of the Westbahnhof, a predecessor of today's Montparnasse station, in 1840, the population of the then suburb of Plaisance increased significantly. In 1848 Plaisance was elevated to a parish and the chapel Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption , previously consecrated to the Assumption , was replaced by a larger church in 1857. In the course of the amalgamation of the suburbs bordering Paris in 1860, Plaisance was integrated into the 14th arrondissement and the parish church was renamed Notre-Dame-de-Plaisance .

Between 1899 and 1902, today's church was built according to plans by the architect Jules Astruc (1862–1935), who was based on the Romanesque churches and the buildings of Victor Baltard and Gustave Eiffel . The church was consecrated to Notre-Dame-du-Travail as a tribute to the work and the workers and was intended to accommodate the large number of workers who were needed for the construction of the world expositions and who had settled in the area.

architecture

Exterior construction

The entrance facade is made of regularly hewn ashlar stones, for the long sides quarry stone from a world exhibition palace from 1900 was reused in the lower area . The high walls are made of brick . The west facade, structured by cornices, is designed in the neo-Romanesque style and pierced by a round arch portal and arched windows. At the level of the galleries , twin windows open on both sides of the portal . The slightly set back bell tower to the right of the facade has a bell from Sevastopol , a piece of booty from the Crimean War that Napoleon III. Donated to the parish in 1861.

inner space

Interior with a view of the choir
Interior with a view of the organ

The church is 47 meters long and 28 meters wide. The interior is divided by iron girders and filigree arched arcades, which are also made of iron, into two narrow aisles and a much wider central nave. Over this, like over the two side aisles, lies an open roof truss supported by a metal construction. The ceiling of the Palais de l'Industrie (Palace of Industry), a pavilion built for the World Exhibition of 1900, was reused.

The high walls of the central nave are pierced by triple windows. A narrow gallery runs along the walls of the side aisles, which are adjoined by ten chapels. The chapels are decorated with floral motifs in Art Nouveau style and with lunettes depicting saints and patron saints of various craft guilds , such as saint Genoveva , the patron saint of Paris, saint Vincent de Paul , saint Francis , saint Eligius (patron saint of goldsmiths), St. Joseph (patron saint of carpenters) and St. Luke (patron saint of artists).

A triumphal arch , inspired by Romanesque architecture, opens the main nave to the semicircular choir , which is spanned by a semi- dome and the walls of which are pierced by arched windows.

Leaded glass window

The leaded glass windows in the choir are decorated with floral motifs. The eastern high wall of the central nave is pierced by three arched windows, on which Saint Vincent de Paul (left), Mary with Child (center) and Saint Joseph are depicted.

  • Saint Vincent de Paul

  • Madonna and Child

  • Saint Joseph

organ

Organ from Haerpfer

In 1991 a new organ was installed by the organ building company Haerpfer . The instrument has 55 stops on four manual works and a pedal . It can be played from two gaming tables: from a mechanical gaming table with two manuals and pedal (Grand Orgue, Récit expressif, Pédale) and an electric gaming table in the nave with three manuals (additionally: Récit expressif, Grand Choeur and the two 32 'pedal stops .)

I Grand Orgue C – c 4
Montre 16 ′
Montre 8th'
Bourdon 8th'
Flûte harmonique 8th'
Prestant 4 ′
Flute 4 ′
Duplicate 2 ′
Cornet V
Grande fourniture II-VI
Plein-jeu IV
Bombard 16 ′
Trumpets 8th'
Chamade 16 ′
Chamade 8th'
Chamade 4 ′
II Récit expressif C – c 4
Viole de gambe 8th'
Voix céleste 8th'
Cor de nuit 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Flûte octaviante 4 ′
Octavine 2 ′
Piccolo 1'
Carillon III
Plein-jeu V.
Basson 16 ′
Trumpets 8th'
Hautbois 8th'
Voix humaine 8th'
Clairon 4 ′
III. Positif expressif C – c 4
Bourdon 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Unda maris 8th'
Bourdon 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Flûte douce 4 ′
Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Flageolet 2 ′
Tierce 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Septième 1 1 ⁄ 7  ′
Cymbals V
Clarinet 16 ′
Trumpets 8th'
Cromorne 8th'
Pedale C – g 1
Soubasse 32 ′
Contre-bombard 32 ′
Flute 16 ′
Soubasse 16 ′
Flute 8th'
Bourdon 8th'
Flute 4 ′
Bombard 16 ′
Trumpets 8th'
Clairon 4 ′

literature

  • Georges Brunel, Marie-Laure Deschamps-Bourgeon, Yves Gagneux: Dictionnaire des Églises de Paris . 1st edition 1995, Éditions Hervas, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-903118-77-9 , pp. 535-536.
  • Jean Colson, Marie-Christine Lauroa (ed.): Dictionnaire des Monuments de Paris . 1st edition 1992, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-84334-001-2 , pp. 171-173.
  • Aline Dumoulin, Alexandra Ardisson, Jérôme Maingard, Murielle Antonello: Paris D'Église en Église . Éditions Massin, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7072-0583-4 , pp. 270-271.

Web links

Commons : Notre-Dame-du-Travail (Paris)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To the disposition (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 9.5 ″  N , 2 ° 19 ′ 1.5 ″  E