Jesuit Church, Molsheim

Local nameÉglise Très-Sainte-Trinité et Saint-Georges
LocationMolsheim, France

The former Jesuit Church is the parish church Sainte-Trinité-et-Saint-Georges which is the main Roman Catholic sanctuary of Molsheim, France, and the principal 17th-century church building in the Rhine Valley. The church was built between 1615 and 1617 by the German architect Christoph Wamser, and consecrated on 26 August 1618. Molsheim's Jesuit church is considered one of the foremost examples of Gothic Survival architecture or, as it is called in German, de:Nachgotik. It is listed as a Monument historique since 1939 by the French Ministry of Culture.

Molsheim's Jesuit College was founded in 1580 and dissolved in 1765. It served as Alsace's main university between 1618 and 1704, preceding the Lutheran Strasbourg University in importance. The church's construction was funded by the bishop of Strasbourg, Archduke Leopold V of Austria, who made a donation on his name saint's day, 15 November 1614.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuit_Church,_Molsheim

Address 3 Rue Notre-Dame, Molsheim 67120, France

Coordinates 48°32'25.333" N 7°29'45.13" E

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