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Religious Site Attractions In Bas-Rhin

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Bas-Rhin is a department in Alsace which is a part of the Grand Est super-region of France. The name means Lower Rhine, however, geographically speaking it belongs to the Upper Rhine region. It is the more populous and densely populated of the two departments of the traditional Alsace region, with 1,112,815 inhabitants in 2014. The prefecture and the General Council are based in Strasbourg. The INSEE and Post Code is 67. The inhabitants of the department are known as Bas-Rhinois or Bas-Rhinoises.
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Religious Site Attractions In Bas-Rhin

  • 1. Cathedrale Notre Dame de Strasbourg Strasbourg
    Strasbourg Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg , also known as Strasbourg Minster, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Strasbourg, Alsace, France. Although considerable parts of it are still in Romanesque architecture, it is widely considered to be among the finest examples of high, or late, Gothic architecture. Erwin von Steinbach is credited for major contributions from 1277 to his death in 1318. At 142 metres , it was the world's tallest building from 1647 to 1874 , when it was surpassed by St. Nikolai's Church, Hamburg. Today it is the sixth-tallest church in the world and the highest extant structure built entirely in the Middle Ages. Described by Victor Hugo as a gigantic and delicate marvel, and by Goethe as a sublimely towering, wide-spreading tree of God, the cathedr...
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  • 6. Protestant Church of St. Peter the Younger Strasbourg
    The Prussian Union of Churches was a major Protestant church body which emerged in 1817 from a series of decrees by Frederick William III of Prussia that united both Lutheran and Reformed denominations in Prussia. Although not the first of its kind, the Prussian Union was the first to occur in a major German state. It became the biggest independent religious organization in the German Empire and later Weimar Germany, with about 18 million parishioners. The church underwent two schisms , due to changes in governments and their policies. After being the favoured state church of Prussia in the 19th century, it suffered interference and oppression at several times in the 20th century, including the persecution of many parishioners. In the 1920s the Second Polish Republic and Lithuania, and in ...
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  • 7. Eglise Saint-Thomas Strasbourg
    St Thomas' Church is a historical building in Strasbourg, eastern France. It is the main Lutheran church of the city since its Cathedral became Catholic again after the annexation of the town by France in 1681. It is nicknamed the Protestant Cathedral or the Old Lady , and the only example of a hall church in the Alsace region. The building is located on the Route Romane d'Alsace. It is classified as a Monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since 1862. Its congregation forms part of the Protestant Church of Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine.
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  • 8. St. Peter and St. Paul's Church Wissembourg
    St. Peter and St. Paul's Church of Wissembourg is frequently, but incorrectly, referred to as the second largest Gothic church of Alsace after Strasbourg Cathedral. However, the building, with its interior ground surface area of 1,320 square metres most probably is the second largest Gothic church in Bas-Rhin which is one of the two departments of the Alsace region. The former abbey church of Wissembourg's famous Benedictine abbey now serves as the main Roman Catholic parish church of the town. The church displays a Romanesque bell tower, the sole remain of the church built in the 11th century under the direction of abbot Samuel, and is thus a station on the Route Romane d'Alsace. The major part of the currently visible church is the work of builders under the command of abbot Edelin, in t...
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  • 11. Eglise Saint-Paul Strasbourg
    The St. Paul's Church of Strasbourg is a major Gothic Revival architecture building and one of the landmarks of the city of Strasbourg, in Alsace, France. Built between 1892 and 1897 during the time of the Reichsland Elsass-Lothringen , the church was designed for the Lutheran members of the Imperial German garrison stationed in Strasbourg. Several of the church's most striking features, such as its great width relative to its not so great length and the inordinately high number of portals and entrances giving access to it result from the need to accommodate military personal from the very highest ranks down, including the Emperor, in case he came . In 1919, after the return of Alsace to France, the church was handed over to the Protestant Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine and became ...
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  • 14. Obernai Synagogue Obernai
    Obernai commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France. It lies on the eastern slopes of the Vosges mountains. Obernai is a rapidly growing city, its number of inhabitants having gone up from 6,304 in 1968 to 11,099 in 2006. The metropolitan area of Obernai had 12,369 inhabitants in 2006, from 7,293 in 1968.
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  • 15. Eglise Saint-Nicolas Strasbourg
    Neuve-Église is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
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