Lahr Collegiate Church
The Protestant collegiate church Lahr (also: Our Dear Lady ) is an early Gothic basilica in Lahr / Black Forest in the Ortenau district in Baden-Württemberg . It belongs to the Evangelical Kreuzgemeinde Lahr in the Ortenau church district of the Evangelical Church in Baden .
history
In 1259 Walter von Geroldseck founded the hospital monastery of Our Lady of the Augustinian Steigerherren near his castle . It was east of the former settlement of Lahr. The hospital was separated from the monastery about 100 years later and moved to the city, and in 1482 the monastery was converted into a secular monastery . With the introduction of the Reformation in 1558, the monastery was abolished. The former monastery church has been a parish church since 1482.
The first construction phase began with the construction of the eastern parts up to the second yoke from the east, followed by an extension to the west by one yoke. The original tower was dated to 1412. In 1851, the building was rebuilt by Friedrich Eisenlohr , extended to the west and uniformly revised in the form of the first construction phase. The structure, badly damaged by artillery fire in the Second World War (March / April 1945) , was restored in 1956. In 2008 an external renovation and structural security measures were carried out.
architecture
The church is a five-bay, three-aisled basilica with a narrow vestibule, a choir with a five-eighth end and side chapels that have just been closed in the extension of the aisles. In the west there is a vestibule open to the nave in Jochtiefe. The retracted tower was renewed together with the facade using the Gothic portals in 1877. The exterior is provided with buttresses, of which those at the choir and the four eastern ones on the north side date from the Middle Ages, the rest were renewed in 1851.
Inside, the room layout corresponds to the church of the first construction phase. Before 1851 the structure was vaulted only up to the second yoke from the east, the central nave only up to the first yoke. The room, which is flat to the west, was consistently unified and vaulted in 1851 in line with the first Gothic building section. In the nave there are pointed arcades with stepped and chamfered arches. The nave wall is not structured and shows only very small, high-rise window openings. The structure of the pillars almost corresponds to the Romanesque forms with wide arches and a square pillar core with half-columns in front. Slender, presumably medieval services rise towards the vault . The ribbed vaults in the side aisles show horizontal vertices rising in the central nave. The ribs are beveled. The motif of the plate-shaped, cantilevered bases , which are connected to the plinth with small consoles , can be derived from the building works of the Strasbourg cathedral . The cup-shaped capitals are decorated with buds and foliage, only those in the choir are still medieval.
In terms of architectural history, the eastern parts of the monastery church up to the second yoke are of particular importance, whose Gothic forms (as far as they are authentic), together with those of the monastery church of All Saints , can be considered the earliest on the Upper Rhine.
Furnishing
The simple furnishings are neo-Gothic. The organ is a work of Orgelbau Mühleisen from 1966 to 1972, which was renovated and expanded in 1997. It has 50 stops on four manuals and a pedal . Numerous historical tombstones have been preserved in the cemetery.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Baden-Württemberg II: The administrative districts of Freiburg and Tübingen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-422-03030-1 , pp. 399-400.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Collegiate Foundation of Our Lady Lahr (leo-bw.de)
- ^ Hartwig Beseler, Niels Gutschow: Kriegsschicksale Deutscher Architektur. Loss - damage - reconstruction. Volume II. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1988, ISBN 3-926642-22-X , p. 1184.
- ↑ Information about the collegiate church on the website of the city of Lahr. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Organ gem is now honored. Article on Baden Online. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Emil Baader : Coats of arms and tombs tell ... A guide through the memorial courtyard of the collegiate church in Lahr. In: Die Ortenau: Journal of the Historical Association for Middle Baden, 33rd issue, 1953, pp. 115-136 digitized version of the Freiburg University Library
Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ′ 21.7 " N , 7 ° 52 ′ 34.6" E