St. Peter and Paul (Eguisheim)
St. Peter and Paul (also Saints-Pierre-et-Paul ) is a Roman Catholic church in the Alsatian town of Eguisheim (German: Egisheim). It is under monument protection as a monument historique .
history
The first church in Eguisheim probably came from the 11th century. It was followed in the 12th century by a Romanesque basilica with three naves and a tower. In the course of the 18th century this church became too small for the rapidly growing population and also became dilapidated. In July 1787, parts of the church collapsed during a service. The engineers Messier and Gouget carried out the reconstruction. In 1807 they decided to largely dismantle the old nave and only keep the tower and a few parts of the old church. In 1809 the new ship on the north side of the tower was completed. The equipment was added in the course of the 19th century.
In 1954 the church got that coming from Eguisheim occasion of the 900th anniversary of the death holy Pope Leo IX. new church windows.
architecture
Today's church is a hall church with five window axes and a gable roof. Sandstone pilaster strips structure the plastered structure on the outside. A curved gable rises above the entrance side. A strongly protruding eaves cornice continues above the gable. Three smaller round windows sit in the gable area, two more on the right and left above the portal. Two arched windows flank the portal.
A high portal with a red sandstone aedicula forms the entrance to the church . Pilasters frame the front door and continue to a triangular pediment supported by consoles. Between this gable and the door there is a statue of Leo IX in a niche, the work of Bernard Glorieux . The choir with a five- eighth end is clad in the area under the windows with choir stalls from 1880 by Jean Weyh . A flat ceiling merges into the walls via a hollow.
The Romanesque basilica was on the south side of today's church behind the church tower. You entered it through the pointed arched portal in the church tower and came into a narthex or vestibule. You can still see remains of pillars and vaulted ribs on the south side of the tower. In the narthex, the actual entrance to the nave was a figurative sculpture portal that has been preserved to this day. The tower with a gable roof is slightly angled to today's nave and has four floors made of yellow sandstone. The room on the ground floor of the tower is now used as a baptistery and has access to the new nave with a wrought-iron gate.
The Romanesque portal in the baptistery still shows traces of polychrome painting. There are four delicate round columns on either side. The first bear the vault of the room, the others hold the ogival archivolt with flower decorations on top of bud capitals . In the tympanum , Christ on the throne is depicted in a high relief, framed by Peter and Paul. On the high lintel below, women can be seen moving from left and right towards a round tower in the middle, above which Christ is enthroned in the tympanum. On the one hand, they are received by Christ through an open door with a gesture of blessing. On the other side they stand in front of a locked door. The scene alludes to the parable of the five wise and five foolish virgins ( Mt 25 : 1–13 EU ).
Furnishing
altar
The neo-baroque main altar was made from oak by Jean Weyh in 1877 . The essay with the maple wood statues comes from Paul Metz. In the center of the stipe (substructure) is a false sarcophagus with a glass front, inside the sculpture of a reclining Christ.
Baptistery
In the center of the baptistery on the ground floor of the tower is the baptismal font from the Middle Ages. There is also a sandstone statue of a praying woman, which was created by the sculptor Alphonse Keck .
Vierge Ouvrante (Shrine Madonna)
In the earlier portal with a cantilever arch, there is a niche in which a shrine Madonna sits on a console . The front part of the trunk consists of wings that can be opened. The wooden Madonna and Child dates from the 14th century. The middle part shows a halo with halo and host , the two wings each a kneeling angel with a candle. The inside of the Madonna was not painted until the 17th century. The Shrine Madonna may have contained a monstrance , which could be indicated by a recess in the neck area. In 1984 the Madonna was restored.
The Shrine Madonna has been classified as a Monument historique since 1978 .
Side altars
The two neo-baroque side altars on the front wall of the choir show a high retable with round pillars at the side, which carry a blown round gable, in the round gable each a medallion with St. Judas (left) and St. Aloisius (right). Large-format pictures by the Alsatian painter Carola Sorg hang between the columns, on the left a copy of the Madonna in the Rosenhag , on the right a portrait of Leo IX.
pulpit
The wooden pulpit is on the north wall of the nave. It is the work of Paul Metz and probably dates from the beginning of the 19th century. In 1877 it was installed in the church. The staircase and pulpit show reliefs of the four evangelists, with Christ as the “good shepherd” in between. A white dove hangs under the sound cover as a sign of the Holy Spirit. An allegory of the church is depicted above the sound cover .
window
The windows of the nave were created in 1954 by the glass painter Tristan Ruhlmann (1923–1982). They show scenes from the life of Pope Leo IX. (Bruno von Egisheim-Dagsburg). They are all set up the same way. Irregular rectangles are set as borders. In the center above a landscape scene, below it figurative stories. The windows point clockwise from right to left:
- The baptism of Bruno, son of the Count of Eguisheim
- The ambitious childhood of Bruno in Toul
- The youthful Bruno is wonderfully healed
- As Bishop of Toul, he cared for the sick in 1032
- In 1048 Bruno was designated Pope in Worms
- Clergy and people of Rome acclaim Pope Leo IX.
- Reform Pope Leo IX. holds the Synod of Reims
- Leo IX visits Upper Alsace
- Leo IX visits Lower Alsace
- Leo IX forgives his enemies as a prisoner of the Normans
- Leo IX dies at the grave of St. Peter
The windows in the choir were created in 1877 by Burckhardt & Sohn from Munich. They show the Mother of God on the left, Christ in the middle and Joseph on the right.
organ
The organ on the gallery above the entrance was built in 1839 by the brothers Joseph and Claude-Ignace Callinet . It was changed several times between 1895 and 1925. In 1962 Alfred Kern restored the instrument to its original condition, and in 2000 his son Daniel Kern restored the organ again.
literature
- Walter Hotz: Handbook of the art monuments in Alsace and Lorraine. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1976, p. 49f
- Dominique Toursel-Harster, Jean-Pierre Beck, Guy Bronner: Dictionnaire des Monuments historiques d'Alsace . La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg 1995, p. 121f
- Eguisheim: Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul (= Volume 2797 of Kleine Kunstführer), Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 2011
Web links
- History and description (website of the parish, French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry no. PA00085415 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Statue: Vierge à l'Enfant dite Vierge ouvrante in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Statue: Vierge à l'Enfant in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 32.3 " N , 7 ° 18 ′ 19.4" E