Ste-Foy (Sélestat)

The double tower facade

Apse and crossing tower

Interior view, looking west

Interior view, looking east

the pulpit

The parish church of Sainte-Foy (Saint Fides Church) is a former monastery church in Sélestat ( Schlettstadt ), a municipality in the French department of Bas-Rhin in Alsace . The three-tower Romanesque church is the only remnant of an earlier priory subordinated to the Benedictine mother abbey of Sainte-Foy in Conques and represents an important stage on the Romanesque Road .

history

From the previous building from the 11th century, founded by Countess Hildegard von Egisheim , only a square crypt, uncovered in 1892, remains.

The currently visible church building was built from 1170 to 1180 with funds donated by Friedrich Barbarossa and is characterized by its stylistic uniformity and balanced proportions.

The church initially served as a Benedictine priory church. It later became part of a Jesuit college for a while and, under the influence of this movement, was largely stylistically transformed. At the end of the 19th century, the architect Charles Winkler restored the building to its original state.

Furnishing

The side portals, the windows to the vestibule and the main portal in the vestibule show rich, partly painted figural decorations. A frieze of vegetal motifs runs around the apse .

Inside, the ornate column capitals and the mighty late baroque pulpit are remarkable .

organ

The organ , also from 1892, was made by Rinkenbach . The instrument has 25 stops on two manuals and a pedal. The actions are pneumatic.

I Grand Orgue C-g 3 1. Bourdon 16 ′ 2. Principal 8th' 3. Bourdon 8th' 4th Octave 4 ′ 5. Flûte à cheminée 4 ′ 6th Flûte de concert 4 ′ 7th Duplicate 2 ′ 8th. Sifflet 1'

II Récit expressif C – g 3 9. Quintaton 16 ′ 10. Violin principal 8th' 11. Lovingly dumped 8th' 12. Salicional 8th' 13. Flûte harmonique 8th' 14th Voix céleste 8th' 15th Prestant 4 ′ 16. Flûte octaviante 4 ′ 17th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 18th Octavine 2 ′ 19th Mixture 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ 20th Trumpet solo 8th' 21st Basson / Hautbois 8th'

Pedale C – f 1 22nd Soubasse 16 ′ 23. Contrebasse 16 ′ 24. Octavebasse 8th' 25th Basson 16 ′

• Coupling: II / I (also as sub- and super-octave coupling) I / P, II / P

Dimensions

• External length: 44.20 meters
  • Length of the ships: 21.25 meters
  • Length of the transept: 18.60 meters
• Width of the ships: 14.85 meters

• Height of the crossing tower: 42 meters
  • Interior height: 11.10 meters
  • Height of the crossing: 10.90 meters

literature

• HB Art Guide Strasbourg - Colmar - Alsace , 1986, ISBN 3-616-06560-8 , corrected ISBN 3-616-06520-8

Individual evidence

1. ↑ More information on the history and description of the organ ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 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. 

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Coordinates: 48 ° 15 ′ 33.7 "  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 21.8"  E