Martinsmünster (Colmar)
The often Martinsmünster called, Roman Catholic (former) Collegiate Church Saint-Martin (Collégiale Saint-Martin) is the dominant religious building Colmar in Alsace and one of the most important Gothic buildings in the Haut-Rhin. Today it serves as a parish church (Franz. Église paroissiale). After the French Revolution it was briefly Cathedral of the diocese and is sometimes still called Cathédrale Saint-Martin. The present building was built from 1234 to 1365, the current, showy crowning of the bell tower was placed in the Renaissance style after a Dachstuhlbrand 1572.
The often Martinsmünster called, Roman Catholic (former) Collegiate Church Saint-Martin (Collégiale Saint-Martin) is the dominant religious building Colmar in Alsace and one of the most important Gothic buildings in the Haut-Rhin. Today it serves as a parish church (Franz. Église paroissiale).
After the French Revolution it was briefly Cathedral of the diocese and is sometimes still called Cathédrale Saint-Martin. The present building was built from 1234 to 1365, the current, striking the bell tower was crowned by a roof fire in 1572 in the Renaissance style of aufgesetzt.Von erected around 1000 the first church in 1972 predecessor remains were uncovered.
It was a three-nave church with a transept and choir closed flat. Late grown Westbau was detected during the excavations. Also from the second, Romanesque predecessor church found foundations. Your apsidial closed choir had the width of the current single choir, the apses joined a transept at today's proportions. 1234 brought the Bishop of Basel, the St. Martin parish church, dedicated to the pin, which included 16 canons (1245). This was apparently the occasion for the construction, which began in 1234 with the well-off is no longer present choir. It is assumed a 5 / 8th choir as he was common in the Upper Rhine late Romanesque. The eastern crossing piers still show base forms of late Romanesque, so that it can be assumed that only in the transept, the oldest part, was carried out the transition to the Gothic construction.
At the south transept portal, the so-called Nicholas Portal, we find the inscriptions referred figure of the "Master Humbert '(Maistre Hunbret), which is regarded as the architect of this component. The nave with its burly kantonierten pillars stems from the second half of the 13th century. The west facade betrays the influence of the West building of the Strasbourg Cathedral. In the mid-14th century the construction of the choir, for the 1350 plots were purchased falls. 1491 was created according to an inscription the Vierungsgewölbe. The church is surrounded by several relatively small portals (some bricked), of which the largest in the tympanum have a rich decorative figures.
The West Portal shows the Adoration of the Magi and the Last Judgment, the Holy Martin appears in the gable at the coat donation. The south transept portal represents the legend of Saint Nicholas, above is another world court representation to see. In the archivolts the Builder Maistre Humbert is at an angle wiedergegeben.Auffallend is also the colored tile roof, which lend to that of Münster to Thann erinnert.Die massive pillars of the facade of the building front a bit cumbersome aspect to the airy look of the high Late Gothic choir windows kontrastiert.Zu unusual external features of the building is the presence of two "Judensäuen" which will a choir as a gargoyle and the other as the Portalwinkelfigur.Grabungsfunde VorgängerbautenTympanon the WestfassadeTympanon the South QuerfassadeDer Colmar JudensauIm spacious interior that by the French Revolution suffered heavy losses at the facilities, are remarkable the unique in Alsace ambulatory with dense chapels as well as the preserved medieval sculptures (Altar, Madonna) and stained-glass windows (beardless Christ head above the north portal of the facade, early 13th century) .Bemerkenswert is also the organ case of 1755, which was created by Johann Andreas Silbermann. The instrument was in 1979 replaced by a contemporary instrument of Orgelbau Felsberg AG. It has 48 registers on three manuals and Pedal.Orgelmusik. The German musician Martin Vogt from 1837 to 1854 was choirmaster and organist in Martinsmünster. According to concert organist Gerd Hofstadt Vogt was then the most laid composer of church music in the Alsace region in the Nordschweiz.Das main peal consists of eight bells that in 1817 (Glockengießerei Edel), 1976/78 (Heidelberger bell foundry) and 1990 (Karlsruher Bell and Art Foundry) were cast. The beat sounds of bells are G0, B0, D1, F1, G1, B1, C2 and d2.
The often Martinsmünster called, Roman Catholic (former) Collegiate Church Saint-Martin (Collégiale Saint-Martin) is the dominant religious building Colmar in Alsace and one of the most important Gothic buildings in the Haut-Rhin. Today it serves as a parish church (Franz. Église paroissiale). After the French Revolution it was briefly Cathedral of the diocese and is sometimes still called Cathédrale Saint-Martin. The present building was built from 1234 to 1365, the current, showy crowning of the bell tower was placed in the Renaissance style after a Dachstuhlbrand 1572.
The often Martinsmünster called, Roman Catholic (former) Collegiate Church Saint-Martin (Collégiale Saint-Martin) is the dominant religious building Colmar in Alsace and one of the most important Gothic buildings in the Haut-Rhin. Today it serves as a parish church (Franz. Église paroissiale).
After the French Revolution it was briefly Cathedral of the diocese and is sometimes still called Cathédrale Saint-Martin. The present building was built from 1234 to 1365, the current, striking the bell tower was crowned by a roof fire in 1572 in the Renaissance style of aufgesetzt.Von erected around 1000 the first church in 1972 predecessor remains were uncovered.
It was a three-nave church with a transept and choir closed flat. Late grown Westbau was detected during the excavations. Also from the second, Romanesque predecessor church found foundations. Your apsidial closed choir had the width of the current single choir, the apses joined a transept at today's proportions. 1234 brought the Bishop of Basel, the St. Martin parish church, dedicated to the pin, which included 16 canons (1245). This was apparently the occasion for the construction, which began in 1234 with the well-off is no longer present choir. It is assumed a 5 / 8th choir as he was common in the Upper Rhine late Romanesque. The eastern crossing piers still show base forms of late Romanesque, so that it can be assumed that only in the transept, the oldest part, was carried out the transition to the Gothic construction.
At the south transept portal, the so-called Nicholas Portal, we find the inscriptions referred figure of the "Master Humbert '(Maistre Hunbret), which is regarded as the architect of this component. The nave with its burly kantonierten pillars stems from the second half of the 13th century. The west facade betrays the influence of the West building of the Strasbourg Cathedral. In the mid-14th century the construction of the choir, for the 1350 plots were purchased falls. 1491 was created according to an inscription the Vierungsgewölbe. The church is surrounded by several relatively small portals (some bricked), of which the largest in the tympanum have a rich decorative figures.
The West Portal shows the Adoration of the Magi and the Last Judgment, the Holy Martin appears in the gable at the coat donation. The south transept portal represents the legend of Saint Nicholas, above is another world court representation to see. In the archivolts the Builder Maistre Humbert is at an angle wiedergegeben.Auffallend is also the colored tile roof, which lend to that of Münster to Thann erinnert.Die massive pillars of the facade of the building front a bit cumbersome aspect to the airy look of the high Late Gothic choir windows kontrastiert.Zu unusual external features of the building is the presence of two "Judensäuen" which will a choir as a gargoyle and the other as the Portalwinkelfigur.Grabungsfunde VorgängerbautenTympanon the WestfassadeTympanon the South QuerfassadeDer Colmar JudensauIm spacious interior that by the French Revolution suffered heavy losses at the facilities, are remarkable the unique in Alsace ambulatory with dense chapels as well as the preserved medieval sculptures (Altar, Madonna) and stained-glass windows (beardless Christ head above the north portal of the facade, early 13th century) .Bemerkenswert is also the organ case of 1755, which was created by Johann Andreas Silbermann. The instrument was in 1979 replaced by a contemporary instrument of Orgelbau Felsberg AG. It has 48 registers on three manuals and Pedal.Orgelmusik. The German musician Martin Vogt from 1837 to 1854 was choirmaster and organist in Martinsmünster. According to concert organist Gerd Hofstadt Vogt was then the most laid composer of church music in the Alsace region in the Nordschweiz.Das main peal consists of eight bells that in 1817 (Glockengießerei Edel), 1976/78 (Heidelberger bell foundry) and 1990 (Karlsruher Bell and Art Foundry) were cast. The beat sounds of bells are G0, B0, D1, F1, G1, B1, C2 and d2.
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France, Colmar