L'église Saints-Pierre-et-Paul, Eguisheim - Alsace / France
N 48° 02.534 E 007° 18.325
32U E 373696 N 5322383
L'église Saints-Pierre-et-Paul is listed in the Merimee DB: IA68000505
Waymark Code: WMT7QT
Location: Grand-Est, France
Date Posted: 10/10/2016
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"The high parish church around 1230 was destroyed in 1807 and replaced by a nave and a larger choir, the nave bearing the date 1808; This construction was made possible by the gift to the town by Joseph and Anne Marie Boll; the direction of the work was entrusted to Gouget, civil engineer roads, but it is not known if he was the author of the project; the work was awarded to Joseph Mason Huniger Hattstatt; the bell tower was preserved, attached to the south wall of the nave; this gate tower housed in the wall is a sculpted monumental portal from the 13th century and which gave access to the old nave; currently passage drilled in the wall of the bell tower was walled; against the wall is two spiral staircases provide access to the floor of the bell tower which once communicated with the nave by three semicircular windows; destroyed the church had a steeple porch flanked by two bays, a nave with four bays, a transept projecting two apses in the wall, a semicircular apse to the choir; of this building remains the gate tower, the openings to the south and east have been preserved, although walled; a pillar made of cubic columns with subsists southeast, as well as warheads departures"
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