Saint-Jean-Saverne
Saint -Jean- Saverne ( German Sankt Johann in Saverne, in the local dialect Sant Johann ) is a commune with 599 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) at the foot of the Vosges in the department of Bas- Rhin in the Alsace region.
Location description
The road development is closely connected to the the neighboring Eckartswiller. While the two towns are flanked in the northwest of the mountain range, located in the southeast largely an open forest.
History
The history of the place is reflected in the history of the place name.
A deed of 1126 mentions a place named with Hofgut Meginhelmeswilre ( Meyenheimsweiler ) - any alleged Merovingian or Carolingian establishment - that Count Peter of the Lützelburg ( at Ottrott ) of the Abbey of St. Georgen im Schwarzwald transferred. St. Georgen founded in the same year a Benedictine monastery called S. John prope oppidum Zabernia (St. Johann in Saverne ). For today's place names, the monastery was authoritative instead of the old corridor designation.
1676 the place was pulled by the Dutch War affected, as in the battle for Phillipsburg suffered the French troops of Marshal Luxembourg defeat against the fighting on the side of the Emperor's troops of Charles V of Lorraine on the Champs de Choux in the Vosges; until 1870 it was known as remembered in memory of the fallen soldiers of St. -Jean -des- Choux.
The monastery was abolished during the French Revolution.
In the course of the eventful history of Alsace alternated in the 19th and in the first half of the 20th century, the ajar to the monastery of French and German place name, since 1945 only applies the French name.
Saint -Jean -Saverne has increasingly opened by signage and documentation of cultural assets and expanding its network of hiking trails in the surrounding area to tourism, without having to cope with exorbitant visitor flows.
Monuments
- The former Benedictine abbey church of St -Jean -Baptiste is a three-nave Romanesque basilica without transept and three Chorapsiden; Arched frieze and half columns have varied masks and animal representations on to consoles and capitals. The five massive groin vault in the interior are among the earliest of its kind in Alsace. The west work with tower and baroque dome was added in the 18th century; from the same period dates the interior ( pulpit, altar ). For preserved in the sacristy of the church treasure comprises eight tapestries from the 16th century, presumably gathered from various local workshops with biblical scenes ( Entombment of Christ, Judgement of Solomon, Maria in the rose ) and profane scenes ( farming and hunting).
- A medieval chapel and hermitage, nothing of the original building has been preserved on the mountain above the town was settled in 1593 by a local Michael's Brotherhood and expanded to become a place of pilgrimage; after several restorations in 1686, 1848 and 1952, nothing remained of older interior; However, the mountain was like his more famous namesake in Normandy, but without being in connection with this, called in reference to the sanctuary Mont Saint -Michel.
Mont Saint -Michel
The populated already in Celtic and Roman times Mont Saint- Michel, called in earlier medieval sources Hexenstein brother or stone, a survey of Saint -Jean -Saverne with a height of 373 m above sea level The mountain is mostly wooded, and from the mountain top you have a view of the entire village with its abbey, the neighboring Eckartswiller and eastward into the vast plain of the Hanau country in the direction of the Rhine, in clear weather to the Black Forest hills.
A nature reserve is the Grotte aux fées, called a cave under an overhanging sandstone cliffs with a mysterious depression in the stone floor, Hexenloch, presumably a grave laying.
The Mont Saint -Michel with its archaeological trail system to the prehistoric and Roman sites has a share of the biosphere reserve Palatinate Forest -Vosges du Nord.