Ergersheim (Bas-Rhin)
Ergersheim (Alsatian: Aryan ) is a municipality with 1210 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Bas- Rhin in Alsace region of France. There, the main streets intersect D30 and D45. Neighboring villages are Dahlenheim, Osthoffen, Ernolsheim- rupture, Dachstein and Wolxheim. After Strasbourg is about 22 km.
Coat of arms
The coat of arms shows the city's patron, St. Nicholas, also the patron of the St. Nicholas Church. The salt cellar with the three children at his feet refers to the resurrection of the slain scholars whose bodies were pickled in a barrel of salt and the St.. Nicholas is said to have come to life after the legend again.
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Attractions
- The Roman Catholic St. Nicholas Church was dedicated to the patron saint. The main façade dates from 1873.
- The St. Michael's chapel is the only witness to the vanished since 1444 in the village Rimlenheim Ergersheim. This chapel dates from the 12th century. It is embedded in the vineyards in the valley of the weevil. The lost village Rimlenheim was first mentioned in 884. The hamlet was destroyed by the Armagnacs, a savage mercenaries, in 1444. There were only five houses in the early 17th century. The chapel was once adorned with one of Ostermeyer, Soultz- les- Bains, carved altarpiece of 1741 in honor of the Virgin Mary. A Memorial Mass for the missing villagers celebrated in this chapel on September 29th with a pilgrimage, the day of the Archangel Michael.
- Trappist Abbaye Notre- Dame d' Altbronn. The Cistercian sisters show since 1895, the old 1820 built villa of Simonis, a family had moved from Italy. Several members of this family are characterized in the ranks of the clergy and social and charitable works are devoted to. So, for example, Ignatius was Jacob Simonis (1831-1903) Catholic priest, professor and member of the Reichstag and was regarded as one of the leaders of the Catholic Alsatian Protestlergruppe or Dr. Paul Müller- Simonis, the co-founder of Alsace- Lorraine Centre Party ( ELZ ). In 1895 the villa a church and a convent has been added.
- Old wash house of Ergersheim on Bruche-Kanal/Nebengewässer the Ill
- Former laundry, mehrstockiger square tower from 1835, now privately owned, in Ergersheim the rupture channel
- Of ruptures (river) -Kanal/Nebengewässer the Ill in Ergersheim
Monastery Abbaye Notre- Dame d' Altbronn
Stations of the Cross in the garden of Abbaye Notre- Dame d' Altbronn
Interior of the Abbaye Notre- Dame d' Altbronn
St. Michael's Chapel
Old wash house of Ergersheim