Saint-Michel Protestant Church (Allenwiller)
The Protestant Church Saint-Michel (French Église protestante Saint-Michel ) is a church building of the Lutheran Protestant Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine in Allenwiller ( Bas-Rhin department ) in France . Allenwiller forms a parish together with Romanswiller . The church is inscribed on the register of cultural heritage in France.
history
The oldest part of the church consecrated to St. Michael the Archangel is the Romanesque choir tower of a fortified church from the 12th / 13th centuries. Century. The corbels of a battlement can still be seen on the top floor of the tower .
From the second half of the 16th century, Allenwiller was part of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg . With the introduction of the Reformation in the county, the Church also became Lutheran. After the " Reunion ", a simultaneum was introduced in 1687 by order of the French government and the church was used jointly by Lutherans and Roman Catholics . In 1739 the old nave was replaced by a new hall church, which is documented by a preserved building inscription. The Simultaneum ended in 1907 with the consecration of the new Roman Catholic Church of Saint-Michel in Allenwiller.
literature
- Kathrin Ellwardt: Lutherans between France and the Reich: Church buildings in the Alsatian offices of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg under Johann Reinhard III. and Louis IX. In: New Magazine for Hanau History 2016, pp. 18–59.
- Walter Hotz: Handbook of the art monuments in Elass and in Lorraine . Darmstadt 1976, p. 3.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saint-Michel in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ↑ Ellwardt, p. 36f.
Coordinates: 48 ° 39 '18.3 " N , 7 ° 22' 28.9" E