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Sunday 19 September 2021, 10:30, 14:30Passed
Conditions
Free. Free access. Meet in front of the tourist office, 18 Rue de l'Église, 57930 Fénétrange.
September 2021
Sunday 19
10:30 - 11:30
14:30 - 15:30
9 to 99 years old

Visit the medieval city and its suburb

Discover the city as it was built over the centuries from a fortified point.
Sunday 19 September 2021, 10:30, 14:30Passed
Conditions
Free. Free access. Meet in front of the tourist office, 18 Rue de l'Église, 57930 Fénétrange.
Fénétrange, la maison des « Fers », Région Grand Est - Inventaire général - ©Bertrand Drapier

Discover the city as it was built over the centuries from a fortified point.

This fortified point monitored a road-river crossroads on the Saar (bridge of Ancient origin) which gave birth to a market fed by the trade of salt of the Saulnois and flotation wood of the Vosges. This led to the construction of the suburb from 1716, a period in which the buildings extend beyond its walls.
The architecture, despite the fires and destruction of the seventeenth century, keeps the traces of this past. Fénétrange, the chief town of a barony, has kept a few houses where rich officers lived, a city where Catholics, Lutherans and Jews lived together, the patrimony is still today the witness: synagogue, Lutheran church, former collegiate church, Jewish cemetery, Catholic and Protestant Cemetery, Protestant and Catholic Presbyteries… city where craftsmen, merchants and peasants worked and lived in farms built next to small houses in the suburb, while inside the city, districts located rather in the lower part of the city still shelter small stables and barns (rue de la Cave, rue Stams et Wust).

Types d'événement
Visite commentée / Conférence
Thème 2021
Patrimoine pour tous
Conditions de participation
Gratuit

About the location

Fénétrange
18 rue de l’Hôtel de ville, 57930 Fénétrange
  • Moselle
  • Grand Est
Fénétrange the medieval, offers a historic center of any beauty or co-exist castle, collegiate church, hospice, houses of masters and craftsmen of all styles (Gothic, Renaissance, classical, half-timbered houses), old synagogue... What made that Fénétrange, nestled on the banks of the Saar, renowned impregnable city in the Middle Ages, has known such a glorious past, will be unveiled to you in its walls...
More than a medieval city, this lively city, its historic center and its surroundings offer many elements of this small heritage that we have every day before our eyes but which can still escape our attention: emblems, brands of stonecutters, small alleys, carved decorations, half-timbering... and many other small treasures! As for the characters who lived here, or still live here, from the most humble to the most famous, they deserve to be known!
Région Grand Est - Inventaire général - ©L'Europe vue du Ciel