Church of Notre-Dame of Dijon
Notre- Dame de Dijon is a Gothic church in Dijon (Burgundy, France). Work on the building was begun in 1230 and completed in 1251.
Architecture
Notre- Dame de Dijon is a medium-sized church with a total length of 65 m and a width of 27.30 m at the transept. The nave reaches a height of 18.50 m.
The unusual west facade shows over the open narthex, which is completely integrated into the building, two storeys of arcades with three rows of gargoyles (the latter in the 19th century largely restored), have exclusively decorative function. The facade is flanked by two pillar-like, round towers which were only slightly project beyond the facade.
The deep portal porch extends across two bays and is a six-part vault covered, which continues in the nave of six bays. High Gothic is the wall elevation of the nave with arcade, triforium and clerestory. At the square crossing with crossing tower crosses on each side, two yokes comprehensive transept.
Right and left of the entrance to the choir can be found in the transept each a small apse on the right is one of the oldest Madonna statues of France, the Notre- Dame de Bon Espoir, from the 11th or 12th century.
The deep choir missing ambulatory and radiating chapels, as often in Burgundy.
Notre Dame is the most beautiful architecturally, ausgewogendste in dimensions church of Burgundy in the 13th century. The Vierungsquadrat - with its central tower opened to the interior of the church ( Light Tower ) - is the unit of which is repeated here in the nave as a result of the six -piece yokes. The three-part elevation has a wide, open triforium. The walkway in front of the nave windows in the nave runs inside and goes in the choir on the outside, the buttresses are pierced in this zone.
The nave has six-part vaults, spanning two yokes so that the so-called bound system is created, which means that there are two Seitenschiffjoche on each Langhausjoch. The vaults appear to be " clamped " between the nave walls. The dissolution of the once closed wall surface of the Romanesque in a Gothic double -layered wall structure is in Dijon managed in a balanced way of example here. This church has therefore found even in those times of pleasure, as you have the Gothic rejected as barbaric style - as a textbook sound implementation of the Gothic Zweischaligkeit. The outer wall is largely dissolved in the window. Then comes a narrow space layer, which passes here in Dijon from top to bottom. This space can layer the front of it inner wall as pictorial, sculptural support system particularly stand out. The colorful colored glass stems largely from the 19th century, with the exception of five lancet window in the north transept, where they are originals from the time of construction in 1240.
The organ was built in 1895 by organ builder Jean -Baptiste Ghys. The architect Charles Suisse has designed the neo-Gothic organ case. In the 20th century the instrument was expanded several times, notably in 1975 with the expansion of one Positif. The instrument has 38 registers on three manuals and pedal. The tracker actions are mechanical, amplified in the Grand Orgue with Barker machines.
The Jacquemart
The inconspicuous right tower of the west building carries the clock with the Jacquemart (bell bat ) that the Bold 1382 from Courtrai brought Philip in Belgium as a trophy. Over the centuries the figure were a number of other adjoined with smaller bells.
La Chouette
On the left side of the church can be found on the outer wall a (2001 through vandalism damaged ) stone owl. If you touch it with your left hand, she met after the popular belief a wish.