Guided tour of a temple: a story of a heritage preservation

Name: Guided tour of a temple: a story of a heritage preservation
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Temple du Climont

The Augusta Victoria Cultural Association, committed for eight years to the preservation of a heritage in rural territory, welcomes you and tells you about its action and its future.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free. Free entrance.

©Christian Amet

https://www.fondation-patrimoine.org/les-projets/temple-du-climont

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Gratuit

About the location

Temple du Climont

Le Climont, 67220 Urbeis

Bas-Rhin
Grand Est

Protestant temple built in 1890 in the hamlet Climont, at the foot of the mountain of the same name and regular rendezvous of hikers. Augusta Victoria, the last German empress, contributed financially to the construction project. This grant is part of his belief in the cultural and social function of religion.
Climont promotes the encounter between different visions of the world. The place served as a haven for Mennonite refugees (Anabaptist Christians) who lived together with Protestants, exiled in these lands since the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
The temple is distinguished by its fully pinned structure visible from the nave, a very popular architecture during the Reichsland period. It was inspired by a model fashionable in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in England, which heralded modern humanism.