St-Michel (Weyersheim)
St-Michel is a Roman Catholic church in the Alsatian municipality of Weyersheim . It is under monument protection as a monument historique .
history
St-Michel was built in place of a previous Romanesque building. Construction of the church began in 1783 based on a design by Nicolas Alexandre Salins de Montfort . In 1785 construction had to be stopped because the bell tower collapsed and the nave destroyed. Construction work did not start again until 1791, but it was not until 1803 and 1807 that the church could finally be built. In the meantime, the architect Reiner had taken over the planning and execution. In particular, the tower and entrance portal were changed compared to Salin's original plans. In 1889 lightning struck the church tower. The subsequent fire damaged the structure and the organ.
architecture
The early classical hall church closes with a retracted choir with a semicircular apse. The long sides of the flat-roofed hall are broken through by six window axes with round arches. Sandstone blocks emphasize the corners of the plastered building with a sandstone base. A classicistic aedicule with Tuscan columns is in front of the nave on the western gable side . The round pillars support a mighty entablature with a cantilevered roof. The curved gable is broken by a square tower on which an octagonal bell chamber sits. The entrance portal is framed by pilasters.
On the west side sits a deep wooden gallery, which is supported by six Tuscan round columns and extends over two window axes. You enter the hall through a vestibule. To the left and right of this you can reach two small, almost square chapels via the interior of the ship.
Furnishing
Apart from the two classicist side altars, the interior of the church is predominantly baroque. In the choir there is a mighty columned altar with a volute canopy. In the center is a plastic representation of the Assumption of Mary . On the flat ceiling of the choir there is a round ceiling painting with Christ and the Evangelists. The side altars are works by Valentin Boudhors . The left altar shows a painting depicting Maria Immaculate, the right a depiction of the Archangel Michael fighting the devil with a flaming sword.
Some of the figures in the church come from the demolished Saint-Wolfgang chapel. Including a St. Wolfgang (around 1490), a third Anna herself from around 1500 and a panel with the legend of Peter from the same time. Many of these sacred works of art can be found in the simple baptistery at the entrance to the church. There are also several wooden statues from the 17th century and a panel painting from the school of Hans Baldung Grien . The glass windows come from the glass painter Zettler from the Ott workshop in Strasbourg and were created in the first quarter of the 19th century.
In the west gallery sits an organ that was built by Charles Wetzel in 1877 . After a fire in 1889, the organ had to be renovated. The last restoration took place in 1999 under the direction of Gaston Kern.
literature
- Walter Hotz : Handbook of the art monuments in Alsace and Lorraine . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1973, p. 316
- Dominique Toursel-Harster, Jean-Pierre Beck, Guy Bronner: Alsace. Dictionnaire des monuments historiques . La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg 1995, p. 626
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry no. PA00085235 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ The organ of St-Michel ( Memento of the original from November 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , A la découverte de l'Orgue - Orgues d'Alsace
Coordinates: 48 ° 43 ′ 6.2 ″ N , 7 ° 48 ′ 8 ″ E