St. Peter and Paul (Wissembourg)
The Church of St. Peter and Paul ( French : Église Saints-Pierre-et-Paul ) is the former church of the Benedictine abbey of the city of Wissembourg in northern Alsace, which was secularized in 1524 . With an internal area of 1320 m² (60 m long and 22 m wide), it is one of the largest churches in the Bas-Rhin department outside of Strasbourg.
history
The predominantly Gothic building still has a laterally positioned Romanesque bell tower from the previous building, which was built in the 11th century under the direction of Abbot Samuel.
Most of the current church was built at the end of the 13th century under the direction of Abbot Edelin .
Furnishing
During the French Revolution , the furnishings of the church were damaged and partly irreparably destroyed, such as the Romanesque wheel chandelier , famous at the time , of which only a simplified copy from the 19th century has survived.
In the interior there are still several sights, especially glass windows and wall paintings from the 14th / 15th centuries. Century, including an eleven meter high representation of St. Christopher , as well as sculptures such as a sheet mask from the 14th century.
organ
The church has an organ from 1766 that has largely been restored to its original state . It is one of the largest in Alsace and, in one of the most magnificent baroque cases, the work of the organ builder Louis Dubois . The instrument was restored from 2010 to 2012. It is tuned three semitones lower than usual, which gives it an "unequal tuning with French timbres".
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View of the organ prospectus in 2013
View of the Roethinger organ
In the south transept there is also an organ made by Roethinger, in an architectural style that is representative of the time (1953), modern and now also historical.
Surroundings of the church
From the medieval Weißenburg monastery , only an unfinished high Gothic cloister remains on the north side of the church , which is considered one of the most beautiful in the Upper Rhine . There are many gravestones u. a. the tombstones of the historically significant abbots Johann von Veldenz († 1434), Philipp Schenk von Erbach († 1467) and Jakob von Bruck († 1472), as well as those of the royal prefect Johann Jakob Menweeg († 1697), founder of the Catholic parish of Schweigen ( Pfalz) and sarcophagi from 10/11. Century.
Attached to this cloister is a former Romanesque chapter house (12th century), which today serves as a chapel. The three-aisled, crypt-like hall with groin and barrel vaults is supported by six archaic columns with Ottonian cube capitals .
literature
- Ulrike Klugmann: Strasbourg - Colmar - Alsace . (= HB art guide. 20). Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-616-06520-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ More information on Louis Dubois' baroque organ ( Memento from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Les vesperales de l'orgue Dubois , information sheet on the organ, 2015
Web links
Coordinates: 49 ° 2 ′ 14 ″ N , 7 ° 56 ′ 30 ″ E