Église Sainte-Croix, Kaysersberg

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]

Église Sainte-Croix
Église de l′Invention de la Sainte-Croix
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 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.[12]

  • 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. "Eglise catholique de l'Invention de la Sainte-Croix". culture.gouv.fr. Ministère de la Culture. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  3. "L'église Sainte-Croix Trésor pour les yeux et pour l'esprit". location-kaysersberg.fr. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  4. "Église paroissiale Sainte-Marie puis de l'Invention-de-la-Sainte-Croix". pop.culture.gouv.fr. Ministère de la Culture. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  5. Baxandall, Michael (1980). The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
  6. "Retable de la Passion". 2.culture.gouv.fr. Ministère de la Culture. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  7. "Peintures : Invention de la Vraie Croix et Annonciation". 2.culture.gouv.fr. Ministère de la Culture. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  8. "Poutre de gloire". 2.culture.gouv.fr. Ministère de la Culture. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  9. "relief : la lamentation". 2.culture.gouv.fr. Ministère de la Culture. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  10. "Saint-sépulcre". 2.culture.gouv.fr. Ministère de la Culture. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  11. "Kaysersberg, Ste Croix Joseph WALTRIN, 1720". À la découverte de l'Orgue Orgues d'Alsace. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  12. "Mobilier". 2.culture.gouv.fr. Ministère de la Culture. Retrieved 26 September 2019.

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