The Church of Notre Dame d'Altkirch

The Church of Notre Dame is the 3rd church built on the top of the Altkirch hill. This first place of Christian prayer in the region received the name "Alta kirche" (high church) because of its geographical location.

It contains some very beautiful works of art: a beautiful pietà from the 4th century, a set of XNUMX stone statues of great beauty "Christ on the Mount of Olives", the baptismal font from the XXth century, a keystone from the XXth century. You can also see beautiful paintings by Gustave Dauphin "Assumption of the Virgin", "The dying Christ" by Jean-Jacques Henner "," The engagement of Mary and Joseph "after Raphael ...

The 14 stations of the Stations of the Cross have an original specificity: on the right side they are represented in German, produced after 1870 when Alsace became German, and on the left side they are in French, reconstructed after the destruction of the war of 14-18, when Alsace became French.