St. Jakobus (Feldbach)

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Exterior view from the southwest
inside view

The Church of St. Jakobus ( French Église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur ) is a Romanesque building from the 12th century in the municipality of Feldbach in Sundgau . The church consecrated to St. James belonged to a Cluniac priory founded in 1145 by Frederick I von Pfirt .

The nuns left the abbey as early as the 16th century during the peasant wars .

description

The church has three naves . The choir consists of a main apse and two side apses, which are located in the extension of the central nave and side aisles. Limestone from the Sundgau was used as building material.

The sequence of window openings - circular windows ( oculi ) and arched windows - reflect the original division of the interior on the outside of the church. The part of the building intended for the nuns was separated from the part for the visitors by a partition.

At the latest when the floor of the church was raised in 1814, the last remains of the crypt of the Pfirter counts disappeared . 13 of them were previously buried there. The outside bell tower is an extension from 1910 in neo-Romanesque style. On the site of the bell tower and in the immediate vicinity to the north of the church, there were originally monastery buildings that no longer exist today. The church was extensively renovated in 1977 and largely restored to its original state.

The church has been classified as a monument ( Monument historique ) since 1898 .

Furnishing

The baptismal font

The baroque baptismal font made of stone with a cover made of wood stands on a base with four angel heads. The round basin from the 17th century is decorated with a frieze of floral motifs and gadronized in the vault . In 1982 it was classified as a Monument historique .

literature

  • Hans Haug, Robert Will: Alsace romane , Éditions Zodiaque (Collection "la nuit des temps" No. 22), 2nd edition, La Pierre-qui-Vire 1970, p. 28 [not evaluated]

Web links

Commons : Église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur de Feldbach, Haut-Rhin  - Collection of images

supporting documents

  1. ^ Theobald Walter: The grave inscriptions of the district of Upper Alsace from the oldest times to 1820 , Verlag der J. Boltzeschen Buchhandlung, Gebweiler 1904, p. 37, archive.org
  2. ↑ Information comes from a display board placed in front of the church
  3. ^ Entry in the Base Mérimée of the Ministry of Culture. Retrieved January 6, 2014 (French).
  4. ↑ Fonts baptismaux in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 47 ° 32 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 56 ″  E