Eglise Saint-Antoine

Driven out of Selestat during the Revolution, the Franciscans of Metz were authorised by the Bishop of Strasbourg to settle there again, shortly after the Great War, in 1919.

They first occupied a house dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua in the street of Scherwiller. Soon they became cramped and wanted to enlarge their convent and build a church. They moved to Saint Anthony. The neo-gothic church will be built by the architect Adolphe Molz, using pink sandstone for the façade stones, rather than concrete, as originally planned. It was completed in 1931.

The organ installed in 1992 comes from the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul de la Teppe chapel in Tain l'Hermitage (Drôme), built by Joseph Merklin in 1885.

Stained glass windows from the Ott Frères workshop in Strasbourg illuminate the place and represent episodes from the life of Saint Anthony.
The carved sandstone pulpit is remarkable. The deep choir has a high altar surmounted by an imposing calvary. A particularity of the place, the arms of the transept each have 2 side altars. Very imposing nativity scene that can be contemplated between 25/12 and 02/02.

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