Temple du Climont
Le Climont, 67220 Urbeis
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.
Etiquetas
Édifice religieux, Édifice rural
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