St-Augustin (Paris)
The Paris parish church of St-Augustin (French: Saint-Augustin ) is considered to be the first church with an iron structure. It is located on the square of the same name, Place St-Augustin , in the 8th arrondissement , about 300 m west of the Saint-Lazare train station in the Quartier de l'Europe .
Location and dimensions
The church was built on a property in the shape of a trapezoid , is approx. 94 m long and together with the dome approx. 80 m high.
history
The church was built between 1860 and 1871 by the architect Victor Baltard .
In January 1867, the future Cardinal Benoît-Marie Langénieux was appointed parish priest. He pushed ahead with the construction of the church and had the huge choir of the church building equipped to accommodate a pastor and twenty vicars.
Emperor Napoleon III. decided that the crypt of this church should be reserved for the burials of princesses and princes of the imperial family, while those of emperors should take place in the basilica of Saint-Denis.
It was in this church that Charles de Foucauld learned his calling, influenced by the pastor Huvelin.
The Saint-Augustin station of Métro Paris ( line 9 ) was named after the church and the square .
description
The church was built by the architect Victor Baltard , who also designed the Halles de Paris . It is a work of eclecticism , which is influenced by Romanesque , French Gothic and Byzantine architecture at the same time . At the same time, it is the first church in which structural elements made of metal were used on a large scale. It measures 94 meters in length and the dome rises more than 80 meters above the ground. Due to the metal construction, there are no side braces. The property was not right-angled, so the building is quite peculiar, with a squat facade and a very large choir. As you approach the building, the side chapels come more and more into view.
Outer shape
The church is assigned to eclecticism , as it combines elements of the Romanesque , French Gothic and Renaissance styles . The ornaments on the stone facade symbolize the four evangelists and the twelve apostles .
Furnishing
The inner columns, which are made of cast iron , are remarkable . They support the ceiling and the dome and, with their polychrome coloring, are also decorative elements of the church furnishings .
The paintings in the nave show: The baptism of St. Augustine and the death of St. Monica and were carried out by the painter Diogène Maillart .
window
Most of the leaded glass windows date from the time the church was built. They were partly created by Antoine Lusson in Paris. The painting of the nave windows depicts bishops and saints of the first centuries of Christianity.
There are several sculptures by the sculptor Mathurin Moreau in the church .
organ
The first organ was completed by Albert Peschard in 1868 ; it had 42 registers on three manuals and a pedal with an electric action . The maintenance of the organ was carried out by Charles Spackman Barker . In 1889 Aristide Cavaillé-Coll was commissioned to repair the organ and in 1897 replaced the (actually more advanced, but not yet fully developed) electrical system with a classic mechanical action. In 1962 the Beuchet- Debierre company enlarged the organ. In 1988 it was re-intoned by Bernard Dargassies . Today she has the following disposition :
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Couple:
- Accouplements: POS / GO, REC / GO, REC / POS, Octaves graves GO, Octaves aigues REC / GO.
- Tirasses : GO, POS, REC, Appels d'Anches PED, GO, POS, REC, Appel GO.
Your titular organists were:
- 1863–1925: Eugène Gigout
- 1925–1930: Jean Huré
- 1930–1948: André Fleury
- 1949–1997: Suzanne Chaisemartin
- 1979-1997: M. Pinté
- Since 1997: D. Matry
- Since 1997: C. Martin-Maéder
literature
- Julia Droste-Hennings, Thorsten Droste: Paris. A city and its myth . DuMont-Reiseverlag, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-7701-6090-8 , p. 312.
- Heinfried Wischermann: Architekturführer Paris , Gerd Hatje Verlag, Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-7757-0606-2 , p. 86.
Individual evidence
- ^ Georges Poisson : Napoléon chez les rois de France à Saint-Denis . In: Revue Napoléon 1 er . No. 31, March / April 2005, p. 44.
- ↑ Ilse Krumpöck: The images in the Army History Museum. Vienna 2004, p. 124 f.
Web links
- Église Saint-Augustin in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Website of the parish of St-Augustin
- L'Internaute Magazine: Diaporama (fr.)
- Description of the organ (en., Fr.)
- Pictures of the church
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 35 ″ N , 2 ° 19 ′ 8 ″ E