Route Romane d'Alsace

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The Route Romane d'Alsace (Romanesque Road of Alsace) is a tourist itinerary designed by the Association Voix et Route Romane to link both the well-known and the more secret examples of Romanesque architecture of Alsace, in an itinerary of 19 internships, linking churches, abbeys and fortresses, that range from the first Romanesque structures of Alsace at the abbey church of Saint Trophime, Eschau, into the 13th century, and the beginning of Gothic architecture in Alsace. From north to south, the Route Romane d'Alsace traverses the Bas-Rhin and the Haut-Rhin, passing through:

Wissembourg: Église Saints-Pierre-et-Paul, Gothic church with memories of a previous Romanesque building (Wissembourg Abbey) Altenstadt: Church of Saint Ulrich, 12th century. Surbourg: Church of Saint Arbogast, 11th century. Neuwiller-lès-Saverne: Église Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul, 8th to 19th-century (visible Romanesque parts from 11th-13th centuries); Saint Adolphe Church, 1190–1225 Saint-Jean-Saverne: Church of Saint John the Baptist, 10th century. Marmoutier: Church of Saint Martin, the form abbey church of Marmoutier, 12th century. Obersteigen: Chapel of the Assumption of the Virgin, 13th century. Strasbourg: Vaulted...