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Église Saint-Thomas
The mother church of Protestant Strasbourg, a luminous five-aisled hall church housing the theatrical Maurice de Saxe mausoleum and a famous Silbermann organ.
Sobre este lugar
The Église Saint-Thomas is the most important Lutheran church in Strasbourg and the whole of Alsace, a serene counterpoint to the great Catholic cathedral nearby. Built on a much older site, its late Gothic structure was completed in 1521, just as the Reformation was transforming the free city, and it soon became the spiritual heart of Protestant Strasbourg. Rather than a single soaring nave it is a hall church, with five aisles of almost equal height rising to around twenty two metres and stretching some sixty five metres in length, flooding the interior with pale, even light. It is famous for two treasures: the dramatic white-marble mausoleum of Marshal Maurice de Saxe, sculpted by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle in 1777, and the 1741 Silbermann organ, played by the young Mozart in 1778 and later championed by the musician and Nobel laureate Albert Schweitzer.
Datos clave
- 1521 year — The late Gothic hall church was completed
- 1741 year — Johann Andreas Silbermann built the renowned organ, later played by Mozart
- 65 metres — Approximate length of the five-aisled interior
📍 Place Saint-Thomas, 67000, Strasbourg