St-Trophime (Eschau)
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Saint-Trophime is a Roman Catholic church in Eschau in the French department of Bas-Rhin . The Romanesque building with influences from Carolingian-Ottonian architecture is protected as a monument historique . The church is dedicated to St. Dedicated to Trophimus .
history
Saint-Trophime is part of the former Benedictine nunnery of Eschau , which was founded around 770 by Bishop Remigius of Strasbourg . In 778 Remigius gave it to the Strasbourg church. In 926 the monastery was destroyed by the Hungarians in the course of the Hungarian invasions and rebuilt at the end of the 10th century by Bishop Wilderod . After another destruction, the monastery was rebuilt in Gothic style in 1298. In 1525 the monastery was closed, the property was added to the cathedral chapter and the monastery buildings were demolished except for the church.
The exact time the church was built is unknown. The traditional consecration date for 996 is often doubted and the first half or middle of the 11th century is given as the time of origin. The structure was changed again and again in the following period. In the 14th century, for example, the roof structure was raised and the west facade and the eaves were raised. In 1747 baroque changes took place inside the church. In 1947 the church tower from the 18th century had to be demolished. It was not until 1987 that the church received a new steeple, which was built as a concrete campanile around 80 meters southeast of the building.
architecture
St. Trophime is an unadorned pillar basilica with a wide transept and a nave with an almost square floor plan. The transept is lower than the nave. The stilted apse is semicircular and adorned on the outside with dark contrasting pilaster strips and blind arches. The center and side aisles are separated inside by arcades supported by six square pillars. The church is covered with a flat wooden ceiling.
Furnishing
Parts of the furnishings of the monastery and the Saint-Trophime church are now in the Strasbourg Women 's Refuge Museum , including remains of the cloister with figural reliefs from around 1130, a baptismal font and a baptismal font, as well as a Virgin (1st half of the 12th century) and a Anna Selbdritt (early 16th century). One of the most important objects of the church is the sarcophagus of St. Sophia of Rome in the transept. Remigius brought the relics with him from Rome in 777. The church also has several wooden sculptures, including a Gothic Christ, a Christophorus from around 1500 and a St. Barbara and Katharina from the 16th century. There is also a group of sculptures of St. Sophia with her children Spes, Fides and Caritas, which dates from the 15th century and hangs over the sarcophagus. The main altar is more recent and dates from the Classicism period .
literature
- Walter Hotz: Handbook of the art monuments in Alsace and Lorraine. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1976, pp. 54–55.
- Thorsten Droste : Romanesque art in France: a travel companion to all important Romanesque churches and monasteries. DuMont, Cologne 1988, p. 393.
- Joseph Gross: Eschau, l'abbatiale Saint-Trophime et l'ancienne abbaye Sainte-Sophie: un haut lieu de l'art roman ottonien et de la sagesse. Groupement des sociétés d'Eschau pour l'année du millénaire de l'abbatiale romane, 1996.
- Jean-Philippe Meyer: Eschau, L'Église Saint-Trophime. In: Congrès archéologique de France, Volume 162, Société française d'archéologie, A. Picard et fils, Paris 2006, pp. 27–32.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Hotz (1976), p. 54
Coordinates: 48 ° 29 '25.1 " N , 7 ° 42' 57.6" E