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Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal à La Croix-aux-Mines dans les Vosges

Patrimoine classé
Patrimoine religieux
Chapelle baroque et classique
Vosges

Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal

    Le Bourg
    88520 La Croix-aux-Mines
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Chapelle Saint-Marc du Chipal
Crédit photo : Rauenstein - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1700
1800
1900
2000
1703
First entry
1762-1763
Reconstruction and blessing
1782
Bell font
1914-1918
Damage to the bell tower
1950
Removal of bulb
1992
Restoration of the bell tower
5 avril 1993
MH classification
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Chapel (Box C 255): inscription by order of 5 April 1993

Key figures

Jean-Baptiste Rovel - Abbé, parish priest of Laveline and La Croix Bless the chapel in 1763.
Jacques Bietrix et Jeanne Delaroue - Donors (1766) Finished altars and furniture.
Nicolas Clévenot - Priest of Saulcy, godfather Mentioned on the bell 1782.
Joseph Bietrix - Son, godfather of the bell Family related to donations.

Origin and history

The chapel Saint-Marc du Chipal, located in the hamlet of the Chipal at La Croix-aux-Mines (Vosges), was mentioned in 1703, but its major reconstruction dates back to 1762. Great and blessed in 1763 by Father Jean-Baptiste Rovel, parish priest of Laveline and La Croix, it embodies the 18th century Lorrain religious architecture. Its bell tower, initially surmounted by a bulb, was damaged during World War I, abolished in 1950, and restored in 1992 in its original style.

The chapel furniture, partially classified as a historic monument, includes an 18th-century altarpiece with statues and worshipping angels, three paintings (including a 17th-century Nativity), and copper candlesticks. A bronze bell of 1782, blessed by Abbé Rovel, bears Latin inscriptions evoking his godfathers and godmothers, as well as a prayer to St Mark against lightning. These elements bear witness to local piety and the gifts of families such as the Bietrix, which financed altars and liturgical objects in 1766.

Classified as a historical monument in 1993, the chapel preserves valuable archives in the Departmental Archives of the Vosges: acts of blessing, accounts of expenses, and documents related to its status of parish dependence. Its history is also linked to regional mining activity, as evidenced by the brochure L-Argent du Chipal (1995), highlighting its anchoring in the industrial and religious heritage of the Vosges.

Today a communal property, the chapel illustrates the resilience of a building marked by conflicts and restorations. Its inscription among the historical monuments and the protection of its furniture make it an emblematic place of the Great East, at the crossroads of religious, artisanal and memorial history.

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