Strasbourg Grande-Île : UNESCO World Heritage site

Strasbourg
Grande-Île
UNESCO World Heritage site
Strasbourg – Grande île
inscrit sur la Liste du patrimoine
mondial en 1988
The UNESCO
Convention:
40 years of
preservation of
World Heritage
Ratified in 1972, the UNESCO World Heritage Convention is the only
legal instrument whose objectives encompass both the protection of
cultural property and the protection of nature.
Inscription on the World heritage List takes into account the universal
and exceptional nature of the property selected. As a prerequisite for
listing, each State must undertake to protect the property to ensure its
transmission to future generations.
The first properties recognised were mainly single buildings, monuments,
but the notion of heritage has evolved to take on a wider meaning, taking
in urban ensembles or landscapes.
The inscription of the Grande-Île in Strasbourg was part of that
development, and was France’s first inscription concerning an urban
ensemble. Since then Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux and Carcassonne have also
been inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Now, forty years on, 936 properties are inscribed on the World
Heritage List, including 37 in France. The majority of the properties
are situated in Europe, but UNESCO is striving to achieve a fairer
representation of the world’s heritage.
Strasbourg Grande-Île
UNESCO world heritage
Inscribed on the World Heritage List since 1988, the Grande-Île site is
bordered by the Ill river on one side and the Canal du Faux-Rempart on the
other.
Linked to the rest of the city by twenty-one bridges and footbridges, the
Grande-Île constitutes the historic core of Strasbourg and is home to a large part
of the city’s central and commercial functions.
Finally, it should also be noted that the medieval urban fabric has been
particularly well conserved, even if the buildings have been renewed over the
centuries.
This restricted perimeter, dominated by the Cathedral, includes a heritage of
extreme diversity: Roman remains, medieval churches, public buildings and
private residences dating from the Renaissance, 18th century townhouses and
palaces characteristic of the “goût français” (French taste), large shops and
dwellings dating from the beginning of the 20th century. A city on the water
situated at the crossroads of multiple influences, Strasbourg has developed and
been enriched over the centuries thanks to numerous commercial, political and
intellectual exchanges. The movement of forms and ideas and Strasbourg’s
particular status have therefore left the Grande-Île with a heritage ensemble that
is unique in Europe.
The inscription of the Grande-Île on the World Heritage List was justified by
three criteria out of the ten applied by UNESCO to decide which sites are of
outstanding universal value. Thus, Strasbourg Cathedral is a unique artistic
creation (criterion I «represents a masterpiece of human creative genius») and
it also represented the eastward vector of the Gothic art movement (criterion
II «exhibits an important interchange of human value»).
Furthermore, the Grande-Île is also an outstanding urban ensemble, where
French and Germanic influences have been mixed from the end of the
Middle Ages until nowadays (criterion IV “is an outstanding example of a
type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which
illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history”).
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The city through the centuries
Free City of the Germanic
Holy Roman Empire
Argentorate
In about 12 BC the Roman legions set up camp between the branches
of the Ill river, in order to strengthen the defensive line of small forts built
along the Rhine border. In the 4th century, the legion’s camp was defended
by a double rampart of stones and bricks with round towers placed at
intervals along it, a few vestiges of which can be seen in the basements of the
Rue des Grandes-Arcades.
To the west of the camp, a large civilian settlement grew up, in particular
along the line from the Grand’ Rue to the Route des Romains.
This first Roman settlement still forms the outline of the city today.
Thus, the highest point of the Grande-Île – the area around the Cathedral –
is at the intersection of the two original routes that crossed the Roman camp,
the cardo-decumanus, now the Rue du Dôme and the Rue des Hallebardes.
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Favoured by its geographical situation and the fertility of the Alsatian
Plain, the city was the seat of a bishopric in the Merovingian period.
At the end of the 10th century, the bishop was granted full authority over
the city by the Emperor, but the burghers, who over the centuries were
taking on ever greater importance in the management of the city, managed
to free themselves from temporal rule at the Battle of Hausbergen in 1262.
Strasbourg then became a Free City in the Germanic Holy Roman
Empire. Protected by imposing walls and canons, the city enjoyed the
privileges of minting coins and holding an annual fair. A Magistrat,
consisting of an Ammeister and four Stettmeisters, ran this little republic. At
the end of the 15th century, the city became one of the capitals of printing,
and then in the next century provided refuge for the most ardent defenders of
Humanism and the Reformation.
Many buildings testify to that golden age, such as the Cathedral and the
Oeuvre Notre-Dame, Saint-Thomas, Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux and Saint-Pierrele-Jeune Protestant churches, the Maison Kammerzell, the Neubau (now the
Chamber of Commerce and Industry) or the Covered Bridges.
Royal Free City
In 1681, Louis XIV attached Strasbourg to
the Kingdom of France.
However, the city retained a certain number
of its religious and economic prerogatives.
The revocation of the Edict of Nantes, for
example, did not apply here. Situated on
the kingdom’s border, Strasbourg became
a major garrison town. The architecture
clearly illustrates this change of regime with
the arrival of the “goût français”. The Palais
Rohan and the town houses in the Rue Brûlée
and Rue de la Nuée-Bleue are examples of the
new style of building.
In 1765, a plan to redevelop the city was
drawn up by Blondel, the royal architect, but
in a pre-revolutionary context, the project
came to virtually nothing.
From capital of the Reichsland
Alsace-Lorraine to the modern city
After the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Alsace and a part of Lorraine
were annexed to the German Empire and in 1871 Strasbourg became
the capital of the new Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine. A new town was
created in the north-east of the Grande-Île, the Neustadt, which enabled the
new capital to develop whilst preserving the ancient centre.
Initially, the new government’s intervention was limited to the reconstruction
of the buildings destroyed during the siege and the modernisation of the
infrastructures (gas, electricity).
Large shops, hotels and dwellings were built along this road. After the First
World War, work on the Grande Percée was resumed. The 1930s therefore
saw the creation of the Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, which was lined with a
large quantity of social housing. The destruction of the Second World War
provided an opportunity to create small squares in the very dense urban
fabric of the city centre, such as the Place des Tripiers for example.
In the 1960s, renovation and rehabilitation campaigns embellished the
La Petite France quarter.
From 1910 onwards work began on the Grande Percée, an initiative that,
with the creation of what is now Rue du Vingt-Deux Novembre, connected
the new railway station to the river port via a modern road which met all the
hygienist concerns of the era.
Finally, the pedestrianisation of the city centre and the installation of
a modern tram system in the 1990s contributed to improving quality of
life in the public urban space.
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Cathedral
Construction of Strasbourg Cathedral began in 1015, at
the crossroads of the two roads through the old Roman
camp. Completed in 1439, this unique creation is a
veritable encyclopaedia of medieval architecture.
The south transept, with the Pillar of the Last Judgement,
marks the introduction in about 1230 of the Gothic forms
from the kingdom of France. The nave, for example,
illustrates the adaptation of the Rayonnant Gothic style
from Champagne. The boldness of the red sandstone
western façade with its mesh of arcatures and large rose
window measuring 13.60 m in diameter, confirms the
pre-eminence of the Strasbourg building site at the end of
the 13th century. The three main entrances illustrate the
Childhood of Christ, the Passion and the Last Judgment
respectively. At the beginning of the 15th century, the
initial plans which included twin towers were modified
in favour of a single spire. Completed in 1439, the spire,
a genuine technical feat 142 m high, was the highest
in Christendom until the 19th century. Strasbourg’s
stone-cutters’ lodge was then at the very forefront of
architectural creation in the Western world.
The date when the Cathedral was completed also
corresponds to the heyday of the Free City of Strasbourg.
Although Goethe considered it as the Gothic cathedral par
excellence at the end of the 18th century, it became, as
soon as it was built, the eastward vector of Gothic art.
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Maison de l’œuvre
Notre-Dame
(place du Château)
The building consists of two parts. The wing is in the
Gothic style, with its capped stepped gables, dating from
1347. It was completed at the end of the 16th century by
the western building, whose scrolled gables are marked
with a Renaissance influence. The spiral staircase in
the hexagonal tower is an example of the skill of the
stone-cutters belonging to the Fondation de l’Oeuvre
Notre-Dame.
Various buildings or architectural features removed
during the Grande Percée have been added to the original
ensemble. Since the Middle Ages the building has housed
the Fondation de l’Oeuvre Notre-Dame, created at the
beginning of the 13th century to manage the construction
site of Strasbourg Cathedral. It keeps the drawings and
mouldings that provide the information needed for the
faithful restoration of the Cathedral today.
Since 1931, the museum it houses has displayed a large
part of the original statues from the Cathedral, initially
removed to protect them from destruction during the
Revolution, and a collection of Alsatian arts from the 11th
to the 17th centuries. A medieval garden laid out in 1937
completes the visit.
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Saint-Thomas’s
church
Protestant church
of Saint-Pierre-leJeune
(place Saint-Thomas)
(place Saint-Pierrele-Jeune)
The foundation of Saint-Thomas’s church dates back to
the origins of the Christian community in Strasbourg,
but the current church was built between the 13th and
the 16th centuries. This church, the largest one in the
city after the Cathedral, is one of very few examples in
Europe of a five-naved hall church, which makes it wider
than it is long.
Saint-Thomas’s is also the cradle of local Protestantism:
it was here that the first Lutheran service was celebrated
in 1524, and the Reformer and humanist Martin Bucer
became pastor in 1531. A veritable museum of funerary
sculpture, you can see here the impressive mausoleum
of the Marshal of Saxony (1777), a masterpiece by J.-B.
Pigalle, one of the most renowned French sculptors of the
18th century.
Many other sculpted portraits and epitaphs were placed
here until the 19th century. A Silbermann organ was
installed in 1740.
Built on the site of a Merovingian chapel, this church
forms a medieval ensemble that is the only one of its
kind in Strasbourg. Indeed, the first collegiate church,
of which a few vestiges remain, was built by Bishop
Guillaume in 1031. From the 12th century on, a great
deal of further work was done in successive waves: the
Romanesque western bell tower, the church’s oldest
feature, was built at the end of the 12th century, then
came the choir (1290) and the nave, completed around
1320, date when the church was consecrated. You can
also admire a 14th century Gothic rood screen with a
Silbermann organ (1780) above it, as well as a cloister
with some 80 tombstones, mainly dating from the 14th to
the 16th centuries.
Under the influence of the Reformation in Strasbourg,
the church became Protestant in 1524. In 1681, Louis
XIV reintroduced Catholic worship in the choir, until the
Catholic church of the same name was built in 1893. In
1897, the church and the cloister were entirely restored
by German architect Carl Schäfer.
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Maison
Kammerzell
(16, place de la
Cathédrale)
Although this house bears the name of
the grocer Kammerzell, its owner in the
19th century, it actually owes its current
appearance to Martin Braun, a cheese
merchant who acquired it in 1571. He kept
only the stone ground floor, dating from
1467, and rebuilt the house with three
corbelled out storeys and three floors in
the loft in 1589. The rich decoration on
the façade, both secular and sacred, was
inspired by the Bible, Greek and Roman
Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Restoration
work carried out in 1892 made the whole
building darker, but this decoration still
testifies to the cultural influences of a
14th century Strasbourg burgher. Inside
the building, you can admire remarkable
frescoes painted by Leo Schnug in about
1905.
Former Hôtel
Zorn de
Bulach town
house
(120, Grand’Rue)
This former private town house is situated
at 120 Grand’ Rue, one of the oldest streets
in Strasbourg. In Roman times, this road
connected the legion’s camp, situated
where the Cathedral now stands, to the
road leading to Saverne, now known as the
Route des Romains. Mainly built by the
Ammeister (the leading city officer) Daniel
Müeg, then his son-in-law Ingold in the
16th century, this house later belonged to a
succession of illustrious Alsatian families,
such as the Dietrichs or the Zorn de
Bulachs, who gave the building its name.
The façade retains Renaissance elements,
such as the rectangular oriel window
resting on a moulded pendant. The
buildings around the inner courtyard
feature late Gothic and Renaissance
elements.
The date 1540 is engraved between a door
and moulded window frame at the foot of
the corner turret, which contains a spiral
staircase.
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Neubau
(place
Gutenberg)
It was on the Place Saint-Martin, which
was renamed Place Gutenberg in 1840, that
in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
period the main places of power in the
Free City were concentrated: the Mint, the
Chancellery and the Town Hall.
It was to extend the latter’s premises
that the Neubau, or “new building” was
erected between 1583 and 1585. The oldest
Renaissance building in Strasbourg, the
Neubau is quite distinct from the other
buildings of the same period, which still
have an architectural style inherited from
the Gothic period. Its façade, the only 16th
century element still surviving, features
three levels in the Classical order topped
with a steeply-pitched roof with small
dormer windows in it.
Rebuilt after the Revolution in its original
style, the building now houses the Chamber
of Commerce and Industry of Strasbourg
and Bas-Rhin.
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Old Customs House
Former Old
Butchers’ House
(1, rue du VieuxMarché-auxPoissons)
(2, rue du VieuxMarché-auxPoissons)
Situated at the crossroads of several communications
routes, in particular several river routes with the Rhine,
the Ill and the Bruche, in the 12th century Strasbourg
became an important European transit and trading
centre which required port installations. In 1358, it
was decided to construct a huge warehouse with a
trading counter for the products that were to be taxed.
The customs warehouse was enlarged and completed
several times until the end of the 18th century. To the
west of the building, near the Saint-Nicolas bridge, an
enormous landing stage was installed in 1393, including
two monumental cranes, which were removed in 1865.
Devastated by the bombing of 1944, the Ancienne
Douane building was rebuilt at the beginning of the
1960s. The reconstruction, which eliminates all the parts
added over the later centuries, has given the building its
medieval appearance back.
Built by the City in 1587 to replace the outdated
slaughterhouse in use since the 13th century on the banks
of the Ill, the Grande-Boucherie (Old Butchers’ House)
is thought to be the work of Hans Schoch, the municipal
architect also responsible for the Neubau. Completed in
1588, the U-shaped construction used to be reached by
two staircases, which have now disappeared, and a spiral
staircase in the courtyard. The ground floor, open to the
street, was occupied on the north side by butchers’ stalls,
while the vaulted East and West wings were used as cold
stores. The first floor was used for theatrical performances
and provided extra space during the trade fair periods.
An 18th century plan shows buildings used for other
commercial purposes around the Grande-Boucherie.
This utilitarian building, an outstanding example of
Renaissance architecture, had a variety of uses in the
19th century and since 1919 it has housed the Musée
Historique de la Ville de Strasbourg.
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Petite France
Delimited by the Covered Bridges, the Ill and the
Grand’Rue, this quarter of the city takes its name from
the syphilis hospital opened there in 1687. In those days
the venereal disease was known as the “French disease”.
The separation of the Ill into several branches upstream
of the Covered Bridges allowed the installation of water
mills and very soon attracted tanners, who consumed
large quantities of water. We can still see their houses,
which date from the 16th century, in the Rue du Bain-auxPlantes. They are recognisable by their open galleries and
roofs where the hides were dried. At the end of the 19th
century, numerous industrial activities set up on the canals
and weirs, which were used to power turbines.
Warehouses for timber, sand and coal, wash-houses and
wash-boats, grain, oil and spice mills, the Schall chocolate
works and the Glacières de Strasbourg ice stores (closed
in 1990) occupied the quaysides until the middle of the
20th century.
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Covered Bridges
and Vauban
Barrage
The separation of the Ill into several branches in the
south-west of Strasbourg marked a vulnerable spot in the
walls built around the city in at the beginning of the 13th
century.
It was therefore decided to strengthen the system of
defences by building arcaded bridges with four brick
towers (one was destroyed in 1869). These bridges
were protected by a tiled roof, hence the name “covered
bridges” (Ponts Couverts), and closed by a timber wall
with arrow loops on the side at risk of attack. The arcaded
bridges disappeared in 1784, and the sandstone bridges
you see today were installed in 1865.
As the Covered Bridges had become obsolete, in about
1690 Tarade built a barrage based on a set of plans
by Vauban, Commissioner General of Fortifications
under Louis XIV. This fortified lock not only prevented
assailants from gaining entry to the city, but also made it
possible to flood the entire southern front, also protecting
it against attack. Reworked on several occasions, the
Barrage has had a panoramic terrace since 1965.
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Palais Rohan
Town Hall
(place du Château)
The Palais Rohan de Strasbourg was built between 1732
and1742 to plans by Robert de Cotte, Principal Architect
to the King, for Cardinal Armand-Gaston de RohanSoubise, Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg.
Designed to resemble one of the great Parisian mansions,
the Strasbourg’s episcopal palace is one of the finest
architectural creations of the 18th century in France,
thanks to both the noble classical elevations of its
façades and to the sumptuous interior decoration. Built,
decorated and furnished in the space of just ten years,
this magnificent residence, which has remained virtually
unchanged since it was built, is distinguished by its
exceptional unity of style.
The city’s fine arts museum the Musée des Beaux-Arts
moved into the palace in 1889, followed by the Musée
Archéologique in 1913 and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs
in 1924.
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(9, rue Brulée,
place Broglie)
This was the spot where the residence of the noble
Ochsenstein family stood, acquired in 1573 by the
Count of Hanau. The family’s last descendant, Régnier
III of Hanau-Lichtenberg, began the construction of a
new residence in 1728. Joseph Massol, the Bishopric’s
architect, was chosen to conduct the work. In the Regency
style, the new town house was designed according to
the standard plan of the Parisian mansions: a building
situated between a courtyard and a promenade – here the
Place Broglie – arranged in a horseshoe shape around
the courtyard. Sculptures inspired by hunting, war and
mythology decorate the exterior. The interior decoration
reflects the interests of its occupants: war, geography
and navigation, music, painting and sculpture. When
Régnier died in 1736, the house passed to his son-in-law
Ludwig VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt. Confiscated during the
Revolution, the Hôtel de Ville (Town Hall) took over the
premises in 1806.
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Aubette
Petites
Boucheries
(place Kléber)
At Louis XV’s request, the architect Jean-François
Blondel drew up plans to embellish the city of Strasbourg,
which included two new roads and several large squares
in the Classical order. The plans were approved in 1768,
but the pre-revolutionary situation prevented them being
fully implemented and only one monumental building,
intended for military use, was built on the Place Kléber in
about 1770.
The orders for the garrison were given at dawn, “aube”
in French, hence the name “Aubette” which it has kept.
Largely destroyed by fire following the bombing of
1870, the building was restored in 1874 and sculptures
were added to the neo-Classical façade. In 1922,
brothers André et Paul Horn drew up plans to install
a huge restaurant and leisure complex in the building.
The design was entrusted to Dutch architect Theo Van
Doesburg, a theorist of the De Stijl movement, and the
couple of artists Hans Jean Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.
Completed in 1928, this leisure complex was designed as
a total work of art, and is considered today as a “Sistine
Chapel” of modern art. After being destroyed in 1938,
the decorations were restored in the cinema-ballroom, the
celebration hall and the foyer-bar, thanks to campaigns to
restore the building in the 1990s and 2000s.
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(4, rue de la HauteMontée)
Before turning to modernism in the 1920s and 1930s, at
the beginning of the 20th century the architect Gustave
Oberthür built several highly eclectic buildings, such as
this commercial building erected in 1901.
Inspired by the Gothic style and the German Renaissance,
the façades feature gables, copper onion domes and a
veritable sculpted bestiary of animals taken from the
medieval repertoire. The floor of the through passage
features a mosaic containing Strasbourg’s coat of arms.
Above it, there is an inscription in gilt letters, “Kleine
Metzig” (little butchers’) referring to the site’s former
occupants. Two statues of standing figures by sculptor
Alfred Marzolff frame the entrance. One represents
Daniel Specklin (1536-1589), a Strasbourg architect and
military engineer, and the other Jacques Sturm (14891553), Stettmeister of Strasbourg and diplomat, who
worked for the City. Since the renovation and the creation
of the Aubette shopping arcade in 2008, a glass roof has
linked the two buildings.
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Saint-Thomas’s
school
(2, rue de
la Monnaie)
Saint-Thomas’s school was built by
Fritz Beblo between 1904 and 1907.
Strasbourg’s municipal architect from
1903 on, he returned to traditional Alsatian
architecture, giving local forms such as
steep tiled roofs pride of place. SaintThomas’s school therefore constitutes, with
its gables and turrets overlooking the Ill, a
rereading of the Alsatian Renaissance style.
It also testifies to the considerable
resources the city council devoted at the
end of the 19th century and beginning of
20th century to giving Strasbourg modern,
spacious schools, in line with a very active
policy in terms of education, health and
social assistance. In the period up to 1914,
Beblo and his team created a large number
of schools based on these principles, both
in the city itself and in the suburbs.
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Galeries
Lafayette
(34, rue du
22 Novembre)
The Grande Percée, a project undertaken
from 1910, was intended to clear out the
city centre by pulling down areas of what
was considered insalubrious housing
and to modernise it by driving a major
road through it, which would be lined
with shops with flats above them. The
construction of a large store, what is now
Galeries Lafayette, was the subject of a
competition in 1912, won by architects
Jules Berninger and Gustave Krafft. The
building has neo-Classical style façades on
two sides, with a curved angle prefiguring
the layout of the Rue des Francs-Bourgeois.
Four statues of female figures by Charles
Albert Schutz, situated above the columns
that highlight the curved shape of the
building, represent the four seasons.
Inside, you can still admire the great
staircase with its copper handrail, stained
glass windows and sculpted ceilings.
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l’Homme
de Fer
During the Second World War, a number
of buildings were destroyed just north of
the Place Kléber. The Place de l’Hommede-Fer was then created in two stages.
In 1955, Gustave Stoskopf, winner of
the Grand Prix de Rome and the main
architect of the reconstruction in Alsace,
was commissioned to design a set of five
buildings including a fourteen-storey tower.
The aim was to extend the Grande Percée
towards the Place de Haguenau by a wide
road lined by buildings in an “ordered” and
“rigorous” architectural style. When the
tram system came to be installed and the
city centre pedestrianised at the beginning
of the 1990s, the Place de l’Homme-de-Fer
was redesigned to become the heart of the
transport network. To give it a real feeling
of unity, the architect Guy Clapot designed
a glass rotunda, which marks out the centre
and blends well with the futuristic design
of the trams.
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1 > Cathedral (Place de la Cathédrale)
2 > Maison de l’Oeuvre Notre-Dame
(Place du château)
3 > Saint-Thomas’s church
(Place Saint-Thomas)
4 > Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Protestant church
(Place Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune)
5 > Maison Kammerzell
(16 place de la Cathédrale)
6 > Former Hôtel Zorn de Bulach
(120 Grand’ Rue)
7 > Neubau (Place Gutenberg)
8 > Old Customs House
(1 rue du Vieux-Marché-aux-Poissons)
9 > Former Grande Boucherie
(2 rue du Vieux-Marché-aux-Poissons)
10 > Petite France
11 > Covered Bridges and Vauban Barrage
(Terrasse panoramique du barrage Vauban)
12 > Palais Rohan (Place du Château)
13 > Town Hall (9 rue Brulée, Place Broglie)
14 > Aubette (Place Kléber)
15 > Petites Boucheries
(4 rue de la Haute Montée)
16 > Saint-Thomas’s school (2 rue de la Monnaie)
17 > Galeries Lafayette
(34 rue du Vingt-Deux Novembre)
18 > Place de l’Homme de Fer
Key:
Route of the visit
Start of the circuit
Tram
Places with a notice
Document produced by the Heritage Mission – Culture Department – City
and Urban Community of Strasbourg
Supervision: Dominique Cassaz
Coordination, texts: Lucie Mosca, with the participation of Dominique Cassaz,
Edith Lauton; Annie Dumoulin, Strasbourg and Region Tourist office; Etienne
Martin, curator at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs; Monique Fuchs, curator at the
Musée Historique; Cécile Dupeux, curator at the Musée de l’Oeuvre Notre-Dame;
Eric Salmon, Fondation de l’Oeuvre Notre-Dame
Photo credits: Archives de Strasbourg - F. Zvardon - E. Laemmel - D. Cassaz - P.
Bogner - G. Engel - A. Plisson (Musées de Strasbourg) - M. Bertola (Musées de
Strasbourg) - BNU Strasbourg - L. Mosca - C. Paccou - S. Eberhardt
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