St-Léger (Marsal)
The former collegiate church of Saint-Léger in Marsal in the Moselle department in the Grand Est region is the most important Romanesque religious building in the Saulnois . It is dedicated to Saint Leodegar of Autun .
In 1005, Bishop Adalbero von Metz donated the church to the Neumünster Benedictine convent near Ottweiler . In 1222 the monastery was converted into a collegiate monastery, which was abolished in 1763.
The building is a flat-roofed three-nave (round) pillar basilica with no transepts and a double tower facade, essentially from the 12th and early 13th centuries, with a Gothic choir , north chapels and windows on the north side from the 14th century. The west facade has a Romanesque return portal with cube capitals . Incidentally, there are only a few structural elements on the facade. Both towers were renewed after a collapse in the late Middle Ages. The interior of the nave is reminiscent of St. Peter in Merzig with its originally square pillars, which may have been rounded off afterwards, with ionizing capitals without a neck ring . Only the Gothic choir is vaulted. The most important piece of equipment is a stone reliquary from the 14th century in the form of a miniature church, all around with figurative representations (Christ and 4 apostles, Adoration of the Magi, Annunciation, Coronation).
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Coordinates: 48 ° 47 ′ 16.8 ″ N , 6 ° 36 ′ 34.8 ″ E