ST. ULRICH CHAPEL
The Saint-Ulrich chapel stands in the middle of the village, between the Saint-Materne church and the Bruche river. It is distinguished by its octagonal Romanesque bell tower and its four truncated apsidioses. The building seems to have been built at the end of the 10th or beginning of the 11th century, according to the simply chamfered profile of the transoms, and especially according to its layout, which dates back to the 10th century, in Prague (Saint-Guy church) and Krakow. In 1774, Saint-Ulrich became the parish church of the village. A nave and choir were added to the east. The west entrance, which is still in use, was simply decorated with a triangular pediment bearing two fire pots. In the 19th century, several historians had (wrongly) assumed that the original building was an old baptistery. Excavations made it possible to locate the construction of the Tetraconque chapel in the 9th century, making this monument the second witness of rural religious architecture of the Carolingian period known in Alsace, after the Dompeter. The frescoes unearthed in the dome and in the apsidoles in 1968 are unique in Alsace and are estimated to date from the 12th century
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