Colombier Reformed Church
The Reformed Church Colombier ( French Temple de Colombier ) is a church building in the municipality of Milvignes near Neuchâtel , Switzerland . She belongs to the parish of La BARC.
history
The previous Romanesque church was consecrated to St. Stephen (St. Etienne). The present church was built in 1827–1829 according to plans by Frédéric de Morel . The classicist Querkirche shows clear influences of the German-Swiss Querkirchen architect Hans Conrad Stadler , who built the Albisrieden Church in Zurich .
description
The church has a T-shaped floor plan, which is composed of a transverse nave and a strongly protruding risalit with a gallery . At the rear of the church there is a tower with a flat tent roof. The main nave is illuminated by arched windows and thermal bath windows with typical classicist lattice structure . The main facade is reminiscent of a Greek temple with the mighty triangular gable and the triglyph frieze . The facade is framed by two massive pillars . Two columns and two pillars flank the portal and support an entablature . There is another thermal bath window above the cornice above .
The interior is characterized by Ionic pilasters that support an entablature. The symmetrically designed pulpit lies on the central axis of the tower. Both the risalit and the narrow sides of the main nave are filled with galleries. The stained glass from 1957 is by Eugène Bouvier .
literature
- Georg Germann: The Protestant Church Building in Switzerland. From the Reformation to Romanticism. Zurich 1963, p. 144.
- Guide artistique de la Suisse. Volume 4a. Berne 2011, p. 108.
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Coordinates: 46 ° 57 '59.8 " N , 6 ° 51' 44.4" E ; CH1903: 556 141 / two hundred and one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven