Protestant Church Harskirchen
The Protestant Church in Harskirchen is a church building of the Protestant Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine . It is under monument protection as a monument historique .
history
From 1756 Harskirchen was the administrative seat of the Alsatian possessions of the princes of Nassau-Saarbrücken . Like Saarbrücken, Alsace was to be upgraded by the baroque master builder Friedrich Joachim Stengel . The Protestant parish church was built in 1762 by Stengel and his adjutant Karl Abraham Dodel . The new church was headed by a pastor .
architecture
The plastered baroque church with a hipped roof was built as a rectangular hall. Sandstone corner pilaster strips structure the building. They are finished at the top with a continuation of the eaves on the long sides. The long sides each have five window axes with segmental arches, the middle ones being short. There is an entrance portal below each. On the northern side of the gable sits a slate, square roof turret with a clock and a bell house, crowned by a curved lantern.
The portal page is richly structured. In the center sits the baroque arched portal, which is flanked by two ooculi with a pediment and rocailles . Above are three windows with segmental arches, and finally two more oculi one above the other in the gable. The portal is framed by a profiled garment, at the apex of which a cartouche without an inscription is attached. The portal is flanked by two tiered pilasters that support a cantilevered roof on which two vases stand on the outside, and inside a gable field with a broken roof and rocaille. In the center an inscription in golden letters: “Built by the Saarbrücken master builder Friedrich Joachim Stengel 1762”.
The interior is defined by the wooden gallery with blue parapets running around on three sides. It is supported by columns of the Tuscan order . The surrounding paneling of the walls is kept in the same color.
At the southern end of the church there is a curved marble altar with two wide and high windows behind it. Between these hangs the wooden pulpit with accompanying gold ornaments. It is the work of Johann Gottlieb Gressler . There are two angels on the cover . A volute-decorated pediment is crowned by an eye of providence . On the west side of the gable there was originally an organ from 1768 by Johann Georg Geib on the gallery . In 1906 the organ was renewed by the Giengen organ manufacturer Gebr. Link , only the original case and prospectus remained. The stucco-decorated flat ceiling merges into the walls via a sweeping cove. The twelve apostles are painted on the walls between the windows in the gallery area . They probably date from the 18th century and were heavily revised by Auguste Dubois in 1927/28 .
literature
- Walter Hotz : Handbook of the art monuments in Alsace and Lorraine. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1976, p. 79
- Dominique Toursel-Harster, Jean-Pierre Beck, Guy Bronner: Dictionnaire des Monuments historiques d'Alsace . La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg 1995, p. 163f
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry no. PA00084744 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 56 ′ 2.1 ″ N , 7 ° 2 ′ 20.2 ″ E