St. George's Church, Haguenau

The parish church of St. George (Fr. Église Saint -Georges ) is next to the Church of St. Nicholas the most important religious building of the city of Haguenau. The church is historique since 1848 Monument.

History and Description

A first, begun in 1143 church was replaced in 1200 by a flat-roofed basilica columns. This shape refers rather to the embossed Hirsau of Romanesque architecture in the Swabian as the Upper Rhenish- Romanesque Alsace, where the curved pillar basilica is predominant. As next of kin, the monastery church Schwarzach can be viewed on the opposite side of the Rhine. In the exterior, the nave is divided by pilasters and arched friezes.

From 1250 to 1283 was a Gothic reconstruction: At the Romanesque nave, which remained untouched, a polygonal choir transept and an octagonal lantern tower was added, the forms refer to the Strasbourg Münsterbauhütte - and the aisles were ribbed vault. The central nave vaulting was only in 1609-1611 nachgotischen forms (see Jesuit church in Molsheim ).

During the French Revolution and the battles for the city in 1945, the church suffered losses in construction and decoration material. Several severed sculptures originally especially the ornate Ostwerk are now in the Musée historique. The church was restored in 1963.

1287 donated the Roman- German King Rudolf von Habsburg, a provost, who was in 1738 the monastery Surburg affiliated.

The church has the following dimensions:

  • Exterior length: 67 meters
  • Exterior width: 22 meters
  • Inside length: 61 meters
  • Internal width: 19.60 meters

Equipment

The interior of the church is in number of equipment pieces relatively modest, but quality worthy of attention.

Pulpit and carvings

Most notable is the pulpit from 1500 by Veit Wagner, a huge crucifix (4 meters high, 2.75 meters wide ) from the year 1488 by Clement of Baden, a twelve meter tall tabernacle from 1523 by Frederick Hammer and several carved altarpieces, including a large -scale work by Grünewald contemporaries Diebold Martin, a final judgment that was with two late Gothic paintings of a Franconian or Swabian master, composed in the 19th century together into a winged altar, which it had not originally given in this form.

Window

1845, the church received a new stained glass window depicting the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, Conrad III. , Rudolf von Habsburg and Albert III. in the aisle windows. These windows did not survive the bombing of 1945. All the visible apse and western factory windows are the work of Jacques Le Chevalier and was built from 1956 to 1969.

Organ

The great organ dates back to the home core ( 1988) in a case of Eberhard Friedrich Walcker of 1867, however, there were already in the 15th century proved an organ, which was built in 1491-1493 by the organ builder Friedrich cancer as a swallow's nest organ. The present organ was built in 1988, with pipe material from the Walcker organ was reused.

  • Couplers: I / II, III / II, I / P, II / P III / P

Belfry

The bell tower above the crossing contains Europe's two oldest still operating bells, both was cast in 1268 and were in contrast to their contemporaries in the Church of St. Nicholas survive the Second World War unscathed.

Views

Looking west to the organ

Altarpiece " The Last Judgement "

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