St. Georg (Haguenau)
The parish church of St. George (French: Église Saint-Georges ) is next to the church of St. Nicholas the most important sacred building in the city of Haguenau . The church has been a monument historique since 1848 .
Building history and description
The Romanesque church construction was started under the Staufer Duke Friedrich II of Swabia ("the one-eyed") and replaced an older Romanesque chapel. In 1143 the Strasbourg Bishop Burchhard I granted the building of the church, which was completed in 1189. Its shape is more reminiscent of the Romanesque architecture in Swabia, which was influenced by Hirsau , than of the Upper Rhine-Alsatian Romanesque, where the vaulted pillar basilica is predominant. The Schwarzach monastery church on the opposite side of the Rhine can be seen as the closest relative . In the exterior, the nave is divided by pilaster strips and arched friezes.
Between 1210 and 1230 the transept and the octagonal tower were added. In 1268 the transept and the heightening of the octagonal tower were finally completed. A Gothic choir was added to the Romanesque nave, which remained untouched, the shape of which is reminiscent of the Strasbourg cathedral building . The side aisles received ribbed vaults . The Gothic choir , the work of the stonemasons of the Fabric "To Lady" of Strasbourg Cathedral was on September 5, 1283 by the Bishop of Basel (then Henry of Isny ) ordained .
In 1371 the building of the nave began, adding three yokes visible on the windows in the upper part .
The central nave vault was built between 1609 and 1611 in post-Gothic forms (cf. Jesuit Church in Molsheim ).
During the French Revolution and the battles for the city in 1945, the church suffered losses in terms of building and decoration. Several chipped sculptures, which originally decorated the east work above all else, are now kept in the Musée historique . The church was rebuilt until 1963. In 1963 a new main altar made of red sandstone was erected by Louis Rudloff.
1287 Roman German king donated Rudolf von Habsburg , a provost , 1738 the monastery Surbourg was affiliated.
The church has the following dimensions:
- External length: 67 meters
- External width: 22 meters
- Inner length: 61 meters
- Inner width: 19.60 meters
Exterior of the St. George's Church in Hagenau
The famous "devil's claws" between the "Chörel" and the Jakobskapelle could come from the swords of the soldiers who placed themselves under the protection of St. George before they went into battle.
In the Middle Ages, the "Chörel" at the south entrance was a wooden canopy under which the bride and groom were blessed and the christening celebrations began.
On the buttress of the southern transept near the "Chörel" there are still old Hagenau measurements. Two graffiti can be seen on an old door post of the north portal. They represent knights in armor on a horse and go back to the 13th century.
Furnishing
The interior of the church contains relatively few pieces of equipment.
Pulpit and carvings
Most notable are the pulpit from 1500 by Veit Wagner, a large crucifix (4 meters high, 2.75 meters wide) from 1488 by Klemens von Baden, a twelve meter high sacrament house from 1523 by Friedrich Hammer and several Carved altars, including a large-format work by Grünewald's contemporary Diebold Martin, a Last Judgment , which was put together in the 19th century with two late Gothic paintings by a Franconian or Swabian master to form a winged altar that did not originally exist in this form.
window
In 1845 the church received new stained glass windows with depictions of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa, Conrad III, Rudolf von Habsburg and Albrecht III. in the aisle windows. These windows did not survive the bombings of 1945. After the bombing raid in 1945, the structure looked like a ruin, the spire had broken off, the walls collapsed, the vaults collapsed, the church windows burst. The apse and westwork windows that can be seen today are the work of Jacques Le Chevalier and were installed from 1956 to 1969.
organ
The large organ comes from Kern (1988) in a case from the Eberhard Friedrich Walcker company from 1867, but there is evidence that there was already an organ in the 15th century that was built in 1491–1493 by the organ builder Friedrich Krebs as a swallow's nest organ . The current organ was built in 1988, using pipe material from the Walcker organ.
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- Coupling: I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
Bell tower
The bell tower above the crossing contains the two oldest bells still in use in Europe. Both were cast in 1268 and, unlike their contemporaries in the Church of St. Nicholas, survived World War II unscathed.
Views
Place in the west in front of St. George, on the left the École Saint-Georges
St. George from the west, in the foreground the baroque "bee fountain" from the former Neubourg monastery
Looking west to the organ
Altarpiece "Last Judgment"
"Holy Sacrament" altarpiece
literature
- Ernst Adam: Architecture of the Staufer period in Baden-Württemberg and Alsace . Stuttgart and Aalen 1977.
Web links
- Paroisse Saint-Georges Haguenau (French)
- History and description of the organ (French)
- History and description of the altar of the Last Judgment (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d "Découvrir Haguenau" (French)
- ^ HB-Kunstführer Straßburg - Colmar - Elsaß , 1986, ISBN 3-616-06560-8 , corrected ISBN 3-616-06520-8
- ↑ Information on the organ of St. Georg ( Memento of the original from March 17th, 2012 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. (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 49 ″ N , 7 ° 47 ′ 13 ″ E