The Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Protestant Church (''Église protestante Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune'') is one of the most important church buildings of the city of

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, from the art historical and architectural viewpoints. It got its name, "Young St. Peter's", because of the existence of three other St. Peter's churches in the same city: '' Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux'' ("Old St. Peter's"), divided into a

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and a

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church, and '' Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune catholique'', a massive

neo-Romanesque Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended to ...

domed church from the late 19th century. The church has been Lutheran since 1524 and its congregation forms part of the

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. It is located on the ''

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''.

Architecture and furnishings

*The oldest part of the church is the small lower church used as a burial crypt, which is the remains of a Columban church erected in the 7th century. *Three of the four arched galleries of the

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date from the 11th century, the fourth arched gallery is from the 14th century. *The

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main building, with its numerous chapels and the lavish

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dates from the 14th century. There are many

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es from this time and the following one-and-one-half centuries, memorial slabs and monuments, the baptismal font, the central painting of the high altar and the

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, now unique in Alsace, which have also been maintained. *In 1780, the now nationally famous choir

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was built (restored in 1948 and 1966 according to the rules of the

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recorded a large part of his performances of Bach's organ works here. The pulpit also dates from the same century, as well as another altar. *Between 1897 and 1901, the church, which had fallen into disrepair, was fundamentally overhauled by the

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architect

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, one of the most important representatives of neo-Gothic sacred architecture in Germany. At that time, the entrance was moved to the side and a new main portal was created, a copy of the northern entrance of the facade of the

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. The cloisters were painted in

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, following the example of the

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. The life-sized baptismal angel statue, along with the chapel and the choir glass windows,View of glass windows
/ref> also date from this time. An organ built in 1762 by Johann Andreas Silbermann in the Catholic part of the two-part church of that time was transferred in 1865 to the St. Moriz Church of the parish of

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. There, it has been restored to its 1848 condition, a compromise between the original baroque Silbermann settings and the later Romantic tone and harmonic extensions, by the family of Alfred Kern & fils between 2006 and 2008. File:StPierreJeuneP119.JPG, Close-up of the pipe organ File:St-PierreJeune 10.JPG, The choir File:St-PierreJeune 09.JPG, Baptismal fonts File:St-PierreJeune 12.JPG, Angel stoup File:St-PierreJeune 14.JPG, The cloister File:St-PierreJeune 15.JPG, Inside the cloister

References

External links

The parish. History, ground plan, photographs

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