Krutenau

This guide to Krutenau in Strasbourg starts with a puzzle: why a small convent church, burned twice in under fifty years, looks today exactly as it did before either disaster. It walks the neighborhood's history as a drained marsh turned market-garden quarter, and the story of Sainte-Madeleine, gutted by fire in 1904 and rebuilt by architect Fritz Beblo, only to be hit again by Allied bombs meant for nearby railway yards in 1944. Walk its narrow streets and picture centuries of boatmen and vegetable growers slowly draining this ground canal by canal.