St. Mauritius (Strasbourg)

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Facade and bell tower
Look into the choir
View of the westwork with organ prospect
Equestrian statue of Joan of Arc in front of the main portal

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Mauritius (Église Saint-Maurice) in Strasbourg's Neustadt district was built as a garrison church in neo-Gothic style based on a design by the architect and later Mainz cathedral builder Ludwig Becker . Becker's design emerged from an architectural competition held in 1893 ; the church was consecrated on May 28, 1899 after several years of construction.

description

Like its Protestant counterpart, the Paulskirche , it was designed as a monument that can be seen from afar: its slender bell tower stands at the end of a kilometer-long, architecturally uniform northwest-southeast perspective from Place de Haguenau to Place Arnold .

Furnishing

The historicist leaded glass windows are noteworthy in terms of furnishings , especially in the vestibule and the choir, as well as the huge and unusually designed organ by Friedrich Weigle from 1899, which is currently not playable. The instrument has 43 stops on three manuals and a pedal .

I Grand Orgue C-g 3
Principal 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Bourdon 8th'
Wiener flute 8th'
Viole de gambe 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Flûte à cheminée 4 ′
Duplicate 2 ′
Cornet III-V 8th'
Mixture VI 3 1 ⁄ 5  ′
Bombard 16 ′
Trumpets 8th'
Clairon 4 ′
II Positif expressif C – g 3
Violin principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Unda maris 8th'
Flûte harm. solo 4 ′
Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
Cornet III 4 ′
Basson 16 ′
Trumpet harm. 8th'
Clairon 4 ′
Clarinet 8th'
Tremolo
III Récit expressif C – g 3
Quintaton 16 ′
Bourdon double 8th'
Gemshorn 8th'
Viole 8th'
Aéoline 8th'
Voix céleste 8th'
Flûte traverse 4 ′
Flageolet 2 ′
Plein-jeu V.
Hautbois 8th'
Voix humaine 8th'
Tremolo
Pedale C – g 1
Principal acoustique 32 ′
Principal 16 ′
Violoncello 16 ′
Soubasse 16 ′
Octavebasse 8th'
Violoncello 8th'
Choral bass 4 ′
Trumpet 16 ′
  • Coupling: II / I (also as sub-octave coupling), III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P

In front of the church is an equestrian statue of Joan of Arc (1922), which, to the chagrin of the city council, regularly serves as a meeting place for nationalist rallies.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 33, 1899, No. 50 (from June 24, 1899), p. 324.
  2. ↑ The parish gives a height of 65 meters, but this is doubtful, since at the same point the height of the towers of the Paulskirche is given as 77 meters instead of 76.
  3. ↑ More information about the Weigle organ ( memento of the original from June 11, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / decouverte.orgue.free.fr

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Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 5 ″  N , 7 ° 46 ′ 14 ″  E