St Etienne church
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3 rue des Eglises
67110 Oberbronn
The current Protestant church was built in 1404, a flamboyant Gothic choir was added in 1503 (you can admire the baptismal font of 1505 composed of 2 elements: the monolithic foot and the octagonal tank). The vault of the choir dates from early 16th century. The vault of warheads with secondary veins, which is close that of the ground floor of the tower, is decorated with 3 vaulted keys vaulted in relief: they represent St Etienne in bust, a Virgin with the child and a shield.
Of north side, an upper room opens onto the choir through windows, it would be a chapel or a box for the use of old lords. The nave was raised in 1758 to make way for a second platform, which was removed in the meantime. Oculi are practiced in the 18th century above Gothic windows. The last floor of the bell tower has been reassembled before 1933.
It became a simultaneous church in 1682 and only serves Lutheran worship since the construction of the Catholic Church in 1939.
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