St-Sébastien (Dambach-la-Ville)
St-Sébastien is a Roman Catholic chapel in the Alsatian municipality of Dambach-la-Ville . It is listed as a monument historique .
history
St-Sébastien was built in 1285 and was the parish church of the vanished village of Oberkirch until 1489. In the 14th century Dambach was made a town and the church had to be expanded due to the population growth. The church was confiscated during the French Revolution, but the townspeople collected 1,420 livres and bought the chapel back. To this day, the church is owned by the 32 Dambach families who formed the Saint Sébastian Brotherhood .
The church was badly damaged during World War II. It could not be restored until 1962.
architecture
The oldest parts of the church date from the 12th century. The Romanesque nave was rebuilt in the 14th century and a Gothic choir was added to the east , which slightly towers over the nave. Of the first church, only the square west tower from the 12th century with corner blocks and the adjoining wall section with the arched gate in the south have been preserved. The flat-roofed hall with a wooden beam ceiling ends in a Gothic choir with a 3/4 end. Corner struts support the rib vault. The retracted choir is entered via a pointed arch. The older windows of the nave have segmental arches, the newer ones with Gothic tracery in pointed arches.
On the northeast side there is a small Romanesque ossuary , in which the bones of the dead from the old cemetery in Oberkirch rest.
Furnishing
The church is equipped with a wooden baroque altar made by the brothers Clemens and Philipp Winterhalder from 1690 to 1692. The linden and pear wood altar is unpainted. In the center of the richly decorated carved altar stands a baby Jesus, who is accompanied by Mary and Joseph, above a stepped base with an integrated canteen (newly created in 1886 by Théophile Klem from Colmar). The scene is flanked by pillars. Above that, God the Father with the dove as a symbol of the Holy Spirit, “a portrait that alone would be enough to classify Clemens Winterhalder among the most important sculptors of the late 17th century”. The altar is crowned by a statue of Sebastian . The two side altars date from around 1500. The left shows a Virgin, the right shows St. Sebastian. Behind it are the remains of a fresco showing a scene of the Last Judgment. Three busts from 1520 show Anna with Maria, Magdalena and Barbara.
literature
- René Haberer, Lucien Gall, Pierre Siegel, M. Krieg, Hermann Brommer: St Sebastian / Dambach-la-Ville , Benfeld 2003
- Walter Hotz: Handbook of the art monuments in Alsace and Lorraine. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1976, p. 41
- Dominique Toursel-Harster, Jean-Pierre Beck, Guy Bronner: Dictionnaire des Monuments historiques d'Alsace . La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg 1995, p. 106
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry no. PA00084677 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ Hermann Brommer : Philipp and Clemens Winterhalder. The sculptors of the Sebastian altar in Dambach in Alsace. In: Das Münster 24, 1971, pp. 234–239.
- ^ Hermann Brommer, in: St Sebastian / Dambach-la-Ville , page 8
Coordinates: 48 ° 19 ′ 37.6 " N , 7 ° 25 ′ 11.5" E