Église Sainte-Croix, Kaysersberg

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Église Sainte-Croix
Église de l′Invention de la Sainte-Croix
Holy Cross church in Kaysersberg (2).jpg
LocationKaysersberg
CountryFrance
DenominationCatholic
History
Founded13th century
DedicationTrue Cross
Architecture
Heritage designationMonument historique
Designated11 May 1932
StyleRomanesque
Gothic
Historicism
Completed19th century
Specifications
Length29 m (95 ft) (inside)
Height12.35 m (40.5 ft) (inside)
Number of spires1
Spire height41 m (135 ft)
Materialssandstone
Administration
ParishCommunauté de paroisses « Au pied du Galtz »
ArchdioceseArchdiocese of Strasbourg

The Église de l′Invention de la Sainte-Croix (″Church of the Discovery of the Holy Cross″) or, colloquially, Église Sainte-Croix (″Holy Cross Church″) is the mostly medieval parish church of the small commune of Kaysersberg-Vignoble, in the Haut-Rhin department of France. The church is situated on the Romanesque Road of Alsace thanks to its ornate sandstone portal from ca. 1230–1235;[1] it is classified as a Monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since 1932.[2]

The Holy Cross Church was built in the first half of the 13th-century, then expanded and modified in the 15th-century, and finally partially modified again in the first half of the 19th-century, when the steeple was crowned with its characteristic dome.[3][4]

The church is filled with notable artworks, all of which are classified as Monuments historiques. Chief among them are the large wooden polychrome altarpiece of the Passion of Jesus, a 1518 work by the Colmar master Hans Bongart,[5][6] with painted 1621 wings by an otherwise unknown Mathias Wuest;[7] a large triumphal cross — height 425 cm (167 in) — from the late 15th-century;[8] a 1521 limewood relief of the Lamentation of Christ;[9] a 1514 sandstone Entombment of Christ;[10] a 1720 pipe organ;[11] besides a substantial number of statues, altars, crucifixes, liturgical objects, and other items ranging from the 15th to the 19th century.[4]

Gallery[]

  • Romanesque main portal (1230s)

  • Altarpiece of the Passion (1518)

  • Triumphal cross (1470s or 1480s)

  • Lamentation of Christ (1521)

  • Entombment of Christ (1514)

  • Pipe organ (1720)

References[]

  1. ^ "KAYSERSBERG: Église Sainte-Croix". La Route Romane d'Alsace. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  2. ^ Base Mérimée: Eglise catholique de l'Invention de la Sainte-Croix, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  3. ^ "L'église Sainte-Croix Trésor pour les yeux et pour l'esprit". location-kaysersberg.fr. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  4. ^ a b Base Mérimée: Église paroissiale Sainte-Marie puis de l'Invention-de-la-Sainte-Croix, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  5. ^ Baxandall, Michael (1980). The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0300028296.
  6. ^ Base Palissy: Retable de la Passion, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  7. ^ Base Palissy: Peintures : Invention de la Vraie Croix et Annonciation, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  8. ^ Base Palissy: Poutre de gloire, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  9. ^ Base Palissy: relief : la lamentation, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  10. ^ Base Palissy: Saint-sépulcre, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  11. ^ "Kaysersberg, Ste Croix Joseph WALTRIN, 1720". À la découverte de l'Orgue Orgues d'Alsace. Retrieved 26 September 2019.

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Coordinates: 48°08′20″N 7°15′49″E / 48.13889°N 7.26361°E / 48.13889; 7.26361

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