Basilique Notre-Dame de Marienthal
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Basilique Notre-Dame de Marienthal | |
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48°46′46.24″N 7°49′01.23″E / 48.7795111°N 7.8170083°ECoordinates: 48°46′46.24″N 7°49′01.23″E / 48.7795111°N 7.8170083°E | |
Location | Haguenau |
Country | France |
Denomination | Catholic |
Website | http://basiliquemarienthal.fr/ |
History | |
Status | Minor basilica (since 1892) |
Founded | 1250 |
Founder(s) | Albert of Haguenau |
Dedication | Mary, mother of Jesus |
Architecture | |
Functional status | Pilgrimage church |
Architectural type | basilica |
Style | Gothic Gothic Revival |
Groundbreaking | 1863 |
Completed | 1866 |
Administration | |
Parish | paroisse Saint Joseph de Marienthal |
Archdiocese | Archdiocese of Strasbourg |
Notre-Dame de Marienthal (Our Lady of Marienthal) is a Catholic pilgrimage church dedicated to Mary, mother of Jesus. Located in Marienthal, in the Bas-Rhin department of France, it is administratively situated in the town of Haguenau. The basilica has been elevated to the rank of Minor basilica by Pope Leo XIII in 1892.[1]
The first sanctuary at this site was built around 1250 by the knight Albert of Haguenau (died in 1254), who had had a religious epiphany some ten years prior and had gathered a small community of faithful around him. This first sanctuary, called "Mary in the Valley", venerated a statue of the Madonna and Child which is not preserved today.[2] The two statues that are venerated today, a Madonna and Child and a Pietà, date from the early 15th-century.[3] In the 18th-century, the basilica also received precious gifts from queen consort Marie Leszczyńska.[4]
The current, spacious church was built in 1863–1866 in the Gothic Revival style, but keeps a Late Gothic sacristy from 1519, decorated with early Renaissance bosses, and elaborate works of art such as a Dormition of Virgin Mary, and an Entombment of Christ, carved in sandstone by the local master sculptor, Friedrich Hammer (also known as Fritz Hammer, or Frédéric Hammer).[5] Among the 19th-century works of art in the basilica figures a set of frescoes by Martin von Feuerstein (1889).[6]
Gallery[]
West facade
Interior, looking east
Interior, looking west
Madonna and Child
Pietà (Canonically Crowned, 19 September 1859, PP. Pius IX)
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "9. XIXe : un siècle de gloire". basiliquemarienthal.fr. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
- ^ "1. Albert de Haguenau, fondateur de « Mariæ in valle »". basiliquemarienthal.fr/. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
- ^ "3. Début du XVème siècle : origine des 2 statues de la Vierge". basiliquemarienthal.fr. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
- ^ "7. Maria Leszinska, reine de France : sa dévotion à Notre-Dame de Marienthal". basiliquemarienthal.fr. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
- ^ "2. 1257-1543 : une communauté de moines guillelmites dynamiques". basiliquemarienthal.fr. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
- ^ "La basilique Notre-Dame-des-Douleurs de Marienthal à MARIENTHAL (67)". petit-patrimoine.com. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
- Basilica churches in France
- Churches in Bas-Rhin
- Haguenau
- Gothic Revival church buildings in France
- Buildings and structures completed in 1866
- Pilgrimage churches