Pilgrimage church Notre-Dame (Temniac)-Wikipedia
The Pilgrimage church Notre-Dame de Temniac is a small church in a suburb of the southern French city of Sarlat-La-Canéda in the Département Dordogne (region nouvelle-aquitaine). Since 1920 the church has been as Monument [first] classified.
The church of Notre-Dame is located on a hill about three kilometers (route) north of the city center of Sarlat-La-Canéda.
No more information about the building history of the small church building is known. However, it can be assumed that the construction was created in the 12th century – perhaps as a castle chapel. During the plague epidemic in 1688, the residents of Sarlat and the surrounding area made a pilgrimage to Temniac to a – as helpful – statue of Our Lady. The pilgrimage was repeated every year on Easter Monday.
Outer building [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
With its mighty buttress and high-lying windows,-apart from a few blend arcades-almost unadorned outside the church is reminiscent of a fortified church (see the former Abbey Churches Saint-Nicolas de Trémolat and Saint-Martial in Paunat). Only the large portal and the side blend arcades point in a different direction. The church has a simple stone bell gable with a subsequent small covered bell room. All roof surfaces are with thin stone slabs ( leuzes ) covered – a material that was used more frequently in earlier times, but is rarely seen today due to the high craftsman costs.
Interior [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
Even inside the single -nave church shows no building decor; The masonry made of light limestone, on the other hand, is so exceptionally well added that structural jewelry elements such as capitals could be dispensed with.
The two yells of the nave are arched by couplings, as it happens more often in the Périgord. Pendant and dome round form a transitional unit. The second nave, compared to the first or the choir, is slightly widened, so that one can almost speak of a crossing. From there, two side stairs lead to the crypt lying under the choir.
The slightly increased choral papers impresses with its polygonal 3/8 closure with large windows that are overturned by double arcades that rest on-the wall presented-the wall. The basket capitelle are undiminished. The choral parishes end with a well -made vault.
crypt [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
The crypt consists of two rooms – an anteroom with a mighty unpredictated rib vault and a small increased altar room with an east window. In the anteroom there is a wooden statue made of wooden statue of mother’s debit.
The ruins of the Temniac castle , a castle of which only a round tower is preserved in good condition.
- ↑ Temniac church In the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Thorsten Droste: Périgord. Dordognetal and Quercy – the landscapes in the heart of Southwest France. Dumont, Cologne 1997, pp. 133, ISBN 3-7701-4003-6.
- G. Duverneuil: Notre-Dame de Temniac-the castle, the church, the pilgrimage. Impr. Cassard, 1910.
44,91097222222 1,214722222222 Coordinates: 44 ° 54 ′ 39.5 ″ N , 1 ° 12 ′ 53 ″ O
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