Es iſt alſo eine Doppelkirche mit einem gemeinſamen
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1872
An open compass, closing on one altar
In 1872 it was finished. The district gazetteer sets the building down without ornament: “two converging naves which meet in a common chancel.” Auguste Jean saw it as an open compass, two arms splayed at the doors, drawing nearer down the length of the building, closing at last on one shared sanctuary. A German visitor put it more simply still: a double church, with one common high altar — in its way a masterpiece of architecture, he thought, bearing brilliant witness to the talent of “our Br Bergenthal”. Over it stand two octagonal towers of ninety-two feet, and inside, the vaults were painted in dyes drawn from plants and trees.
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In English
“So it is a double church with one common high altar.”
What this source establishes
An eyewitness walking the finished building in 1885, and a fourth independent description of the plan beside Pate, Auguste Jean and Dessal. The same page adds detail the KB did not have: each nave is itself three-aisled, the communion rails meet the central pillar at half a right angle, and the pulpit stands on that pillar with the confessional beneath it. Windowed — the description names the two communities throughout.