Old(Former) strengthened church Saint-Hubert

Name: Antigua iglesia fortificada Santo-Hubert
Start: 2018-09-15T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-09-16T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Eglise Saint-Hubert

Visit free of the church-hall(-market) of Waville and of its medieval aître

15 i 16 septiembre 2018Passed

Herby

The development of vineyards and of populating in Waville led(drove), shortly before the year ten hundred, the monks of the abbey of Gorze possessing lands, to base(establish) a particular(special) place of worship: the oratory and the aître Saint-Hubert. At the end of Middle Ages, the church Saint-Hubert is strengthened, the attic of the nave are raised(enhanced) and covered with a terrace lined with crenels(niches), one surmounting(overcoming) the chorus(choir) raises the height of the tower and is endowed with a hourd. In 1736 tour(ballot) and crenels(niches) are shaved, a roofing is set up.
Primitive(Initial) cemetery at origin, the aître gave its name to the strengthened district. Houses, joined they some with others, train(form) a wall in "horseshoe" in which they reach only by a main entrance at the foot of the hall of the church and two very narrow side entrances(entries).

About the location

Eglise Saint-Hubert

place de l'église, 54890 Waville

Meurthe-et-Moselle
Grand Est

The church Saint-Hubert follows a place of worship and necropolis of the 1st millennium. Mentioned as belonging to the abbey of Gorze, it will be done up in "church-hall("church-market) « in the XIIIth century, one of the most old(former). The building is compound(made up) of a nave in three vessels (of the same height about nine metres) and in three spans only. The portal(gate) of the church keeps(preserves) a tympanum representing the vision of Saint-Hubert. A turret in cantilever, visible in the angle northwest of the nave, manifests the period of fortification of the building. Also, tracks of crenels(niches) of the terrace the North are still visible. In the XIXth century, they rediscover the frescoes of the XIIIth century representing the «Credo of twelve apostles», covered at present with a whitewash but some tracks of which it is possible to see. The church Saint-Hubert is listed(classified) in conformance with(for) historic monuments since 1921.
The Aître de Waville (and Aîtres Médiévaux of the valley of the Rupt de Mad) It is after the year ten hundred that aîtres (primitive(initial) necropolises) of the Valley of the Rupt de Mad began to get organised in strong villagers. This enclosure contained the old(former) cemetery joined with the church with tour(tower,ballot) - bell tower surrounded by an alleyway, herself fitted tightly round in the wall trained(formed) by the joined houses. No house of the aître of Waville distinguished itself from others: it was about a Community aître reserved for people of identical social status, any subjects of the abbot of Gorze.