St-Barthélémy (Sarrewerden)

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St-Bathélémy from the north
Nave and choir
View from the choir into the church hall (above the ruler's box )

St-Barthélémy (Eng. St. Bartholomäus ) is a Roman Catholic church in the Alsatian municipality of Sarrewerden . It is under monument protection as a monument historique .

history

The collegiate monastery St. Blasius was founded in 1481 by Nikolaus von Moers-Saar Werden . Today the St. Bartholomäus church was built in the 15th century as a replacement for a castle chapel from the 14th century.

architecture

The flat-roofed hall church with two window axes closes with a three-quarter choir with two yokes. This is slightly wider and higher than the nave with Gothic tracery windows with pointed arches. A hexagonal ridge turret with a pointed helmet sits on the saddle roof of the church. The west portal is formed by a Gothic portal with a triple recessed keel arch. Above it sit an eyelash and two pinnacles . In the tympanum tracery has survived. In front of it there is a statue of Bartholomew with a flaming knife on a console.

The choir is vaulted with a reticulated vault. A pointed triumphal arch forms the entrance to the choir. On the north side a patronage box sits high up on a multi-profiled console. A stone parapet with tracery protects the visitors. On the western front side there is a wooden organ gallery on two narrow round columns.

Furnishing

In the north wall of the nave sits a tomb of Marguerite Donzelot from 1631. Below is a grave figure of St. Franz Xaver . The figure of the Virgin standing on a console under a Gothic canopy dates from the 16th century.

The organ was created in 1855 or 1856. Its author is unknown. Presumably Joseph Géant or Joseph Verschneider.

literature

  • Walter Hotz : Handbook of the art monuments in Alsace and Lorraine . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1973, p. 227.
  • Dominique Toursel-Harster, Jean-Pierre Beck, Guy Bronner: Alsace. Dictionnaire des monuments historiques . La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg 1995, pp. 390f.

Web links

Commons : St-Barthélémy (Sarrewerden)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry no. PA00084945 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ↑ Entry no.IM67009171 in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 55 ′ 22.6 "  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 56.7"  E