Chapel Church
The Chapel Church ( hook size: Onze Lieve - Vrouw - ter - Kapellekerk, French: Église Notre- Dame de la Chapelle ) in Brussels is one of the oldest monuments in the Belgian capital. The Dutch name is often colloquially shortened to Kapellekerk, which then also derives the common German name. Occasionally also find the name of Our Lady to the chapel.
History
Already a document from 1134 mentions a chapel in this place. Duke Godfrey the Bearded (1095-1139) was then set up between the first and second city wall before Stenen gates in the former weavers' quarter, a chapel, which he then transferred to the Benedictine Abbey of the Holy grave in Cambrai under the then abbot Parvinus, which in the chapel a let einrichteten priory. The privileges of the community were expanded in 1195 by Duke Henry I of Brabant, where the chapel as is " Capella Beatae Mariae extra muros oppidi Bruxellensis sita " means.
The chapel church has a colorful history of successive stages of partial destruction, fire, looting, shelling and reconstruction, alterations and restorations, which makes it a milestone in the transition from Romanesque to Gothic.
The conversion of the chapel into a church began in 1210. A settlement developed outside the city walls of Brussels, and the chapel was enlarged their church the second parish in Brussels at all. The work was completed in the course of the 13th century. Choir and transept were built in a Romanesque-Gothic hybrid style between 1250 you 1275, in contrast to the longitudinal vessel, its current stage of construction is a flamboyant 16th century, after the Church in 1475 partly - as well as the settlement - one was destroyed by fire.
The church was plundered in 1574 by Calvinists who thereby destroyed the facility. In 1695 it was damaged by the French at the siege of Brussels. 1699 to 1708 the church was restored chapel, where the old tower by the Brussels architect Antoine Pastorana was replaced by the present baroque bell tower.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder drew 1562 in the Hoogstraat 132, and remained for the rest of his life in the Marolles district. He married in 1563 in Chapel Church Maria Coecke van Aelst. She was the daughter of Pieter Coecke. Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder. are the biological sons of Mary Coecke van Aelst. Together with his wife was Pieter Bruegel the Elder also in the chapel church the place of his final rest.
Another well-known personality who was buried in the chapel of the Church, is the Brussels guild master Frans Anne of interest, who led an uprising against the local authorities of the Austrian Habsburgs in the early 18th century and was executed for this deed on 19 September 1719. Today, he is honored for it as a freedom fighter.
The common people, however, was buried until 1822 in a cemetery outside the church, ( sometimes called Chapel Square ) was located on the site of the present chapel market and Place de la Chapelle.
Environment
Not far from the church is the house and the workshop of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. and in the Cellebroerstraat 55 known artists 'bar ' het goudblommeke in paper " ( the golden paper flowers), where artists such as Magritte and the like were regular visitors.
Equipment
Pictures
Léon van Dievoet, Chapel Church with houses in the Rue des Alexiens (1941 )
Christ statue above the main entrance
Detail of the baroque choir stalls
Extensive restoration work was carried out in the years 1989 to 1996.
Works of art
- The baptismal font from the year 1475th
- The pulpit from 1721, is the work of Pierre- Denis Plumier
- A wooden statue of Margaret of Antioch dates from the 16th century
- The grave of Pieter Brueghel located in a chapel on the right side.
- The reliquary of St. Boniface of Brussels is located in a chapel in the north aisle.
- The Spinola family had its grave lay in the church.
Organ
The organ was built in 1890 by organ builder Schijven. The abrasive loading instrument has 22 stops on two manuals and pedal. The tracker action are pneumatic.
- Coupling I / I ( Suboktavkoppel ), II / I, I / P, II / P