Lautenbach Collegiate Church

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Exterior view
Vestibule of the Lautenbach collegiate church in the westwork
Columns and frieze in the porch
Romanesque capital with block frieze
Interior view to the west
Interior view to the east

The Lautenbach collegiate church is an important Romanesque sacred building in Lautenbach in Alsace (Haut-Rhin department). It represents an important stage on the Romanische Strasse .

History of the monastery and monastery

The founding of the Lautenbach Benedictine monastery dates back to the 8th century, when Irish monks from the Honau monastery near Strasbourg settled in the flower valley. An important monk and provost of this monastery was the philosopher Manegold von Lautenbach , who sided with the Pope in the investiture controversy, whereupon around 1080 imperial troops destroyed the monastery and its church.

The Benedictine monastery was followed by an Augustinian canon monastery , which built a collegiate church in the first half of the 12th century after it had flourished under the bailiwick of Werner von Habsburg . Parts of a previous building were reused. The monastery, which had been in power for centuries, was abolished during the French Revolution . Today the former collegiate church is used as a parish church.

Romanesque and Gothic components of the collegiate church

The Lautenbach collegiate church has its significant position in art history primarily through the well-preserved vestibule (“paradise”) within the western structure of the sacred building. It is a three-aisled hall with two bays, built between 1145 and 1155, which is characterized by slender columns and a frieze. The frieze around the main portal shows scenes of adultery on the left and vice and its consequences on the right. In the southwest corner are two chosen ones in paradise . The tympanum showing the patron saints Michael and Gangolf ( martyrs of fidelity) and between them Christ in the mandorla was destroyed in the French Revolution.

Above the vestibule there is a St. Michael's Chapel - not accessible to visitors - which was previously vaulted and had openings to the nave.

The oldest components of the church from the end of the 11th century (1080–1100) are the outer walls of the side aisles , which on the outside still have a few sculptural decorations from the previous building and a door decorated in relief (including David's fight with the lion?) On the south side.

The transept , built between 1130 and 1140, is also older than the westwork; on the eastern outer wall of the southern transept there are traces of a Romanesque apse . A gargoyle with a Jewish hat is inscribed with "I am Vivilin". The apse of the north transept was replaced in the Gothic by a sacristy with a ribbed vault . The choir also comes from the early Gothic period (around 1235) and replaced a Romanesque choir.

Furnishing

The earliest preserved works of art date from the 15th century, including the large triumphal cross from 1491 on the choir arch and a Madonna . Grave slabs of canons belong to the 15th to 17th centuries. Altars, pulpit and organ are baroque creations . The choir stalls , which are decorated with figures , essentially date from the middle of the 15th century.

organ

The organ was built in 1772 by the organ builder Johann Peter Toussaint with 41 registers . The instrument was slightly changed several times in the 19th century, and only lasted at the beginning of the 20th century when, among other things, the original echo movement was exchanged for a recit. The organ today has 38 registers on three manuals and a pedal . The actions are electro-pneumatic.

I Récit expressif C – d 3
1. Montre-viole 8th'
2. Flûte majeure 8th'
3. Dolce 8th'
4th Voix céleste 8th'
5. Prestant 4 ′
6th Duplicate 2 ′
7th Mixture-cornet III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
8th. Basson / Hautbois 8th'
II Grand Orgue C-c sharp 3
9. Montre 8th'
10. Flute 8th'
11. Bourdon 8th'
12. Viol 8th'
13. Prestant 4 ′
14th Flute 4 ′
15th Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
16. Duplicate 2 ′
17th Tierce 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
18th Larigot 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
19th Fittings III
20th Sifflet 1'
21st Cornet V
22nd Trumpets 8th'
23. Clairon 4 ′
24. Voix humaine 8th'
III Positif de Dos C – d 3
25th Bourdon 8th'
26th Salicional 8th'
27. Prestant 4 ′
28. Flute 4 ′
29 Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
30th Duplicate 2 ′
31. Cornet III (D)
32. Fittings III 1'
33. Cromorne 8th'
Pedale C – d 1
34. Contrebasse 16 ′
35. Bourdon 16 ′
36. Flute 8th'
37. Flute 4 ′
38. Bombard 16 ′
  • Pair: I / II, III / II, II / P

literature

  • Brockhaus' Konversationslexikon. FA Brockhaus in Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna, 14th edition, 1894-1896, volume 17, p. 707. < http://www.retrobibliothek.de/retrobib/seite.html?id=137614 >
  • Robert Will: The Romance Alsace. Zodiaque Publishing House, 1966 (La Nuit des Temps 22).
  • Ernst Konrad: The Romanesque collegiate church Lautenbach in Alsace , Master's thesis at the Institute of Art History at the University of Stuttgart
  • MW: La Collégiale de Lautenbach. A short tour , (leaflet) 2001
  • Hermann Brommer : The sculptors in Türckheim and the baroque furnishings of the collegiate church in Lautenbach / Upper Alsace. In: Alemannisches Jahrbuch 2003/2004. ISSN  0516-5644

Individual evidence

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Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 56 '27.9 "  N , 7 ° 9' 32.1"  E