St-Jean-Baptiste (Saint-Jean-Saverne)
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Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Eng .: John the Baptist ) is a Roman Catholic church in the Alsatian parish of Saint-Jean-Saverne . It is under monument protection as a monument historique .
history
Peter von Lützerlburg founded a Benedictine monastery in 1126 and made it subordinate to the Sankt Georgen monastery in the Black Forest . After 1127 the monastery church of St. John the Baptist was built, which was completed and expanded between 1150 and 1160 or 1170 and 1180. The church was changed again and again in the following years. The west side of the church probably originally had two stair towers. In 1729 the nave was raised slightly, and a tower was created by Michel Meng in 1733 . The simple buttresses of the side aisles were built in the 19th century.
architecture
St-Jean-Baptiste is the former abbey church of the abbey. The pillar basilica with a central nave and two side aisles ends with three apses . The central nave is vaulted by five double bays, and the aisles by ten simple bays. Wide belt arches separate the yokes. To the west is a square tower with a curved dome and lantern. The windows of the church are mostly closed with round arches. While the nave and apses are made of sandstone, the tower is plastered with corner blocks on the sides. While the church is made of quarry stone, the tower is carefully square. On its west side sits a portal with a blown triangular gable, in the center of which sits a shell niche with the baroque figure of a Mother of God. The entrance to the sacristy on the south aisle shows an Agnus Dei depiction in the tympanum , which probably dates from the 12th century.
In front of the apses are semicircular pilaster strips with arched friezes. On the central apse, consoles with animal heads and ornaments also support the frieze. Above that are profiled eaves cornices on the side apses and a scroll frieze on the central apse . The interior of the church is mostly made of sandstone, only the top cladding and ribbed vaults are plastered. Round arches on square pillars separate the side and middle aisles. The vaults are supported by rectangular services that are in front of every second column. In each of the upper storeys there is a high window in the center, which is flanked by two lower windows. The apse is painted with an eye of providence .
Furnishing
The original equipment of the church is no longer available and mainly dates from the Baroque period and was revised in the 19th century. This includes organ, side altars and the elaborate with Rocaille decorated pulpit with the evangelists representations. The oldest pieces of sacred art include ten knitted carpets from the 15th and 16th centuries, which are used as dorsals and paraments . Three tapestries are now in the Women's Refuge Museum in Strasbourg, one in the Academy of Arts in Honolulu.
The main altar with tabernacle and cladding of the old cafeteria dates from 1763 and was created by Franz Anton Ketterer . The large wooden crucifix is from 1765. The two side altars are baroque. The southern one shows a figure of John the Baptist, the northern one a Madonna.
The organ dates from 1747 and was created by Johann Andreas Silbermann . In 1851 and 1903/04 it was rebuilt and at times completely expanded in line with contemporary tastes. In the years 2007 to 2009 it was replaced by a modern instrument, the baroque prospectus was retained.
literature
- Walter Hotz : Handbook of the art monuments in Alsace and Lorraine. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1976, p. 230f
- Dominique Toursel-Harster, Jean-Pierre Beck, Guy Bronner: Dictionnaire des Monuments historiques d'Alsace. La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg 1995, pp. 372-374
- Jean-Philippe Meyer: Saint-Jean-Saverne, Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste. In: Congrès archéologique de France. 2004, Strasbourg et Basse-Alsace, Société française d'archéologie, Paris, 2006, pp. 117–123
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry no. PA00084921 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 18.8 ″ N , 7 ° 21 ′ 49 ″ E