Neuwiller-lès-Saverne
Neuwiller- lès- Saverne ( German Neuweiler ) is a commune with 1138 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Bas- Rhin in the Alsace region.
Geography
Neuwiller is located about 20 kilometers north- west of Strasbourg. The boundaries of the municipality is part of the Natural Park of the Northern Vosges, the French part of the biosphere reserve Palatinate Forest -Vosges du Nord.
Demographics
Attractions
- The former abbey church, founded around 720 St. Peter and Paul belonged to one of the oldest monasteries in the Upper Rhine. This was in his first years, among others, from the Saint. Pirminius passed. The church is one of the artistically most valuable and stylistically varied of Alsace. It has a karolinigische crypt ( 8th century ), Romanesque chapels ( 11th century ), a choir and a transept in a transitional style to the Gothic period (late 12th century ), a purely Gothic nave (13th century) and a neoclassical façade and tower ( 1768) on. The remains of the monastery building ( chapter house, a wing of the cloister ) are Gothic style ( 13th century). The equipment is very rich ( medieval grave monuments and tapestries from the years after 1504 with scenes from the life and miracles of St. Adelphus activity of Metz, in the chapels, baptismal font, pulpit, Adelphischrein, Organ, Holy grave in the nave ). The doorways and windows Roses are remarkably designed and decorated. North of the church are to see archaeological remains of another, lost buildings of the monastery.
- The Protestant Church of St. Adelphus was built from 1200 to 1225 in a transitional style from Romanesque to Gothic. You impressed by their powerful western facade and its simple interior. The choir of the church was demolished in the 19th century, until then the reliquary and the tapestry containing the life of the Adelphus of Metz and replaced by a flat wall.
- The castle Herrnstein ( ruin) was built in the early 13th century by the Counts of Dabo. In the 16th century it was rebuilt by the architect Daniel Hamstead Alsatian military fortress.
Church of St. Peter and Paul, View of the north side
Church of St. Peter and Paul, western transepts
Church of St. Peter and Paul, Interior
Church of St. Peter and Paul, Interior
Church of St. Peter and Paul, Interior
Church of St. Peter and Paul
Church of St. Peter and Paul
Church of St. Peter and Paul
Church of St. Peter and Paul
Church of St. Peter and Paul
Church of St. Adelphe, west facade