The former Jesuit Church in Molsheim (Église…
1618 CE
The former Jesuit Church in Molsheim (Église des Jésuites), nowadays the parish church Sainte-Trinité-et-Saint-Georges, is the main Roman Catholic sanctuary of Molsheim, France, and the principal seventeenth century church building in the Rhine Valley.
Considered one of the foremost examples of Gothic Survival architecture or, as it is called in German, Nachgotik (posterior Gothic), the richly ornate church, built between 1615 and 1617 by the German architect Christoph Wamser, is consecrated on August 26, 1618, funded by the bishop of Strasbourg, Archduke Leopold V of Austria, who had made a donation on his name saint's day, November 15, 1614.
The church's dimensions are considerable, especially in relation to the small size of the town, whose population it can hold in its entirety.