Sint Kwinten (Lions)

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Choir and south transept of Sint Kwinten

Sint Kwinten ( German : St. Quintin (us) , French Saint-Quentin ) is a church in the Brabant High Gothic style in Leuven , Belgium .

history

Even before the year 1015 there was a small chapel on the Waayberg , the hill on which today's Sint Kwintenskirche is located, which was dedicated to St. Quintin . It is believed to have been built in the time of Count Lambert I of Leuven , who lived in Saint-Quentin , France , in his youth . This chapel was made a parish church in the 13th century, enlarged and given a tower. In the middle of the 15th century the church was torn down and replaced by the current Gothic building. However, the tower was preserved and was not rebuilt until the beginning of the 19th century.

It was probably the architect and city builder Matheus de Layens from Löwen who made the plans for the Gothic Sint Kwintenskirche in the 15th century. The construction dragged on for over 100 years and exceeded the financial means of the St. Quintinus Brotherhood, which is why a travée had to be dispensed with in the end.

From 1967 to 1970 the church underwent a careful renovation.

architecture

The Last Supper by Jan Willems

The floor plan of the church building includes the three-aisled nave , the transept , the choir , the tower and two sacristies. The central nave is built in the Demergotic style, but has large windows that are unusually large for this type of construction. The transepts and choir are from the Brabant high Gothic, the portal from the 17th century is baroque .

Attractions

Numerous paintings and statues can be seen in the interior of the church, including:

  • a statue of the Madonna by Artus Quellinus from the 17th century
  • the statue of a seated, scourged Jesus from the Löwen School of the 15th century
  • a painting by Gaspar de Crayer in the north arm of the transept, on which Saints Anna , Maria and Jesus are depicted surrounded by St. Rochus , St. Christopher , St. Antonius , St. Sebastian and St. Georg
  • two paintings by Jan Jozef Verhaghen, brother of the painter Pieter Jozef Verhaghen , in the north transept, namely Ecce Homo and Holy Face , and another painting by him in the choir: The Mockery of Jesus
  • a painting by his brother Pieter Jozef Verhaghen: Jesus on the Mount of Olives
  • a Last Supper , which the Leuven city painter Jan Willems painted in 1521 in the Renaissance style
  • In the south arm of the transept there is an altar dedicated to St. Quentin. It is adorned with a painting by Pieter Jozef Verhaghen depicting the martyrdom of the saint.
  • Under the tower is a baptistery with a wrought iron grille and a stone baptismal font (1560) with a large copper lid.
  • The large glass windows (19th century) on the two arms of the transept depict various saints.

literature

  • J. Lambrechts: Leuven - The Quintinus Church . German translation: D. Brandt, published by the Leuven Tourist Office.
  • Pierre Diriken: Geogids Leuven . Georeto, Kortessem, ISBN 90-75224-50-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sint Kwinten on the website of the Vlaams Instituut voor het Onroerend Erfgoed (VIOE) (Dutch)
  2. ↑ Een confrontatie van twee Leuvense Schatten , accessed on January 15, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Sint Kwinten (Leuven)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 11.9 "  N , 4 ° 41 ′ 54.8"  E