Chêne-Bougeries Reformed Church
The Reformed Church Chêne-Bougeries (French: Temple de Chêne-Bougeries ) is a Protestant transverse church in the Geneva suburb of Chêne-Bougeries .
history
The church was built between 1756 and 1758 and has an oval , transverse floor plan. The church building, which is programmatic in its ground plan for the Reformed sacred building, is to be seen in connection with the Treaty of Turin , which in 1754 established a new demarcation between the Calvinist republic of Geneva and the Catholic Savoy . The village of Chêne was divided into two parts.
description
In front of the nave are a magnificent baroque façade and a portico with columns of Tuscan order . The tower clock is mounted on the main facade, which is crowned by a bell-bearing roof turret. The benches in the simple interior are arranged in the unusual order of a Greek theater . There is a gallery above the rows of seats . The pulpit as the central location of the Reformed preaching service is clearly visible from all seats . The organ ( Neidhart & Lhôte , 1979) is on the northern gallery opposite the pulpit.
Web links
literature
- Guide artistique de la suisse. Volume 4a. Société d'histoire de l'art en Suisse, Bern 2011.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The organ of the Chêne-Bougeries church - history. French, accessed March 28, 2014.
Coordinates: 46 ° 11 ′ 52 " N , 6 ° 11 ′ 19" E ; CH1903: five hundred and three thousand five hundred and eight / 117029