Église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur de Gundershoffen

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The Church of Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur is a Catholic religious building located 6 rue de l'Église, in the French commune of Gundershoffen, in northern Alsace, France.

History: Former parish passed to the Reformation in 1570, probably simultaneous in 1685, the church of Gundershoffen will be subjected to the simultaneum from 1715 to 1908, the date of the construction of the Catholic Church Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur. The mixed church was rebuilt by both communities, after the abolition of the principle of simultaneum in the present Protestant church. The laying of the first stone of the new church of Gundershoffen took place on August 9, 1908, a date visible on a stone in the choir.

Grand organ of the parish church of Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur, 1860, by Joseph Stiehr. The current instrument, restored by Gaston Kern d'orgues factor, based on Robert Pfrimmer's expertise, was resettled in September 1999,

== The parish priests and pastors of Gundershoffen* The clergymen hostile to the Civil Constitution of the clergy, decree adopted in France by the National Constituent Assembly on 12 July 1790 during the French Revolution...