Église du Temple-Neuf
Neo-Romanesque Protestant church in pink sandstone, rebuilt after an 1870 wartime fire destroyed its medieval predecessor.
This guide to Eglise du Temple-Neuf in Strasbourg begins with the Dominican preacher Johannes Tauler, buried beneath a plain stone slab, and the convent founded on this ground in 1260 whose students once included Meister Eckhart. It follows the building's shift to Strasbourg's Protestants after the Reformation and its unexpected second life housing the city's great library from 1835, shelves filled with university holdings and a private scholar's collection. You'll hear what happened on a single night during the 1870 Prussian siege, when artillery found the roof. Listen for the 1877 Merklin organ still filling the space today.
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