St-Eugène-Ste-Cécile (Paris)
The Roman Catholic parish church of Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile was built between 1854 and 1855 as the first iron structure of a church building in France . It is located at 4 rue du Conservatoire in the 9th arrondissement of Paris . The nearest metro station is Bonne Nouvelle on lines 8 and 9 .
history
The church Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile was 1854 to 1855 according to the plans of the architects Louis-Auguste Boileau (1812-1896) et Adrien-Louis Lusson (1788-1864) as a parish church of the 1854/55 newly founded parish Saint-Eugène in built in neo-Gothic style. A steel construction was chosen to save space and costs . The pillars and vault ribs are made of cast iron. In honor of the Empress Eugénie de Montijo (1826–1920) and in memory of her wedding to Napoleon III. in 1853 she was dedicated to St. Eugenius of Toledo († 657), Bishop of Toledo , consecrated. In 1857 Jules Verne married Honorine de Viane in the church .
In 1952, in memory of the Conservatory of Music in the Rue du Conservatoire , the church was given the patronage of St. Cäcilia (around 200– 230), the patron saint of musicians.
In 1983 the church was added to the list of French cultural monuments as Monument historique .
architecture
facade
The entrance facade is pierced by pointed arched windows and rosettes . It is structured by buttresses , which mark the division into main and side aisles, to which chapels adjoin. The portal is designed as a three-part step portal with unadorned archivolts and crowned by a triangular gable decorated with finials .
inner space
The building is 50 meters long and 25 meters wide. The height of the central nave is 23 meters, the side aisles have a height of 15 meters. The three-aisled nave extends over four bays . Pointed arch arcades on slender, towering cast iron columns separate the nave from the side aisles. They are reminiscent of the refectory of the former St-Martin-des-Champs priory , which today belongs to the 3rd arrondissement of Paris and is used as the library of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers . The main nave is vaulted with a domical vault , the side aisles have ribbed vaults . Due to the iron construction, the weight of the vaults and the strength of the walls are reduced, so that the buttress arches required in Gothic architecture can be dispensed with. The thrust of the vaults is absorbed by the narrow chapels that adjoin the side aisles and over which a cast iron gallery runs. There is no transept.
The walls, columns and vaults are fully painted. The painting was restored from 1982 to 1984.
The main altar has colored sculptures depicting Jesus , the apostles Peter and Paul as well as the four evangelists and angels with incense vessels .
organ
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The organ was created by Joseph Merklin and Friedrich Schütze in 1854/55 and restored in 1995 and 2005. The French-style instrument has additional basic parts in the German style. It has 33 stops on three manuals and pedal , whereby the usual trumpet stops of the Grand Orgue (Manual I) are assigned to the positif (Manual II). The action is mechanical, in the Récit (Manual III) with the support of Barker machines .
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Leaded glass window
The fourteen stations of the Way of the Cross are shown on the leaded glass windows of the side aisles .
The window with the depiction of Pontius Pilate and the condemnation of Jesus, the first station of the cross, is by Antoine Lusson . The other windows were made by Eugène-Stanislas Oudinot (1827–1889) after boxes by Jean-Alfred Gérard-Séguin (1808–1875).
The windows of the upper storey are by Gaspard Gsell (1814–1904). They depict scenes from the life of Jesus such as the encounter with the adulteress or the betrayal of Judas . The large windows in the choir were also created by Gaspard Gsell. They represent the transfiguration as well as the last supper and Jesus and the disciples in the garden of Gethsemani before the capture of Jesus.
literature
- Georges Brunel / Marie-Laure Deschamps-Bourgeon / Yves Gagneux: Dictionnaire des Églises de Paris . Éditions Hervas, Paris 2000 (1st edition 1995), ISBN 2-903118-77-9 , pp. 228-229.
- Aline Dumoulin / Alexandra Ardisson / Jérôme Maingard / Murielle Antonello: Paris D'Église en Èglise . Éditions Massin, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7072-0583-4 , pp. 201-203.
Web links
- Église Saint-Eugène-Sainte-Cécile in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Parish website (French)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 '24 " N , 2 ° 20' 49.7" E