Rosheim Travel Guide

 JLBG Says:  The porte Basse (lower gate) is also named Porte de la Vierge (Virgin entrance) and opens in the outer city wall and was built at the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th. As a defense tower, it has few openings. You have to pass the Porte Basse to go out of Rosheim... 

 JLBG Says:  When going out of Église Saint Pierre et Paul, the inner city wall stands on the left. The east gate is named Porte de l’école (School gate). Actually, the Porte de l’école does not open in an actual city wall but in a building which looks half abandoned and that has been at... 

 JLBG Says:  In front of Église Saint Pierre et Paul, Witz-Rohmer bakery prides itself to be the oldest bakery in France, with 400 years of continuously making bread, over 15 generations of bakers in the family. This is what is written on the post hanging on its front. They do not tell... 

 JLBG Says:  The inside of Église Saint Pierre et Paul is severe, and has few carvings. The powerful columns toped with Romanesque vaults are imposing and give a real impression of peace and stability. According to specialists, the quality of the stone masonry makes Rosheim’s church a... 

 JLBG Says:  The main entrance of Église Saint Pierre et Paul is on the southern side of the nave and opens on the terrace. It is framed by columns with an unusual look.On the left, the column is carved with a series of linked concentric circular shapes.On the right, the column is carved... 

 JLBG Says:  Usually, in a church, the main entrance opens in the axis of the nave. In Église Saint Pierre et Paul, this is not the case and this entrance, which was closed, is narrow and scarcely decorated with a series of tiny fluted moldings. 

 JLBG Says:  On the first photo, I have pointed out the carvings outside the apse of Église Saint Pierre et Paul..Photo 2 is a close up on the apse.Photo 3 is a close up on Saint Luc’s bull (below, left)Photo 4 is a close up on Saint John’s eagle (top left)Photo 5 is a close up on Saint... 

 JLBG Says:  On the eastern side of Église Saint Pierre et Paul the semi-circular apse (on the right of the photo) has been added with a rectangular shaped chapel (on the left) on which an amazing small round watch turret is stuck 

 JLBG Says:  Église Saint Pierre et Paul is decorated with several acroteres. Acroteres, in Roman and Greek architecture were statues standing on top or on the pediments of a building.,On the first photo, I have added arrows showing some of the acroters. The other photos are close... 

 JLBG Says:  Église Saint Pierre et Paul is a Romanesque church built with yellow sandstone between 1160 and 1195. It is among the most prominent Romanesque churches of Alsace. It was built because the inhabitants of the city wanted it strongly and because the Hohenstauffen family, that... 

 JLBG Says:  The Tourist office stands on “Place de la République” and rue du Général De Gaulle, near the Puits à 6 seaux. It stands in a 1751 house named “la Laube”, with wide arches that have now been closed with glass windows. It was the city butcher’s market.They are very helpful and... 

 JLBG Says:  Puits à 6 seaux (six buckets well) or Sechseimerbrunnen stands just inside the Porte de l’Horloge, on what is now named “Place de la République”. It was used till 1906. It was built in 1605 in Renaissance style by Zumsteeg, a local sculptor, that built also the 6 buckets... 

 JLBG Says:  Porte de l’Horloge or Zittgloeckel (Clock entrance) was built in the early 13th and was part of the inner (oldest) city wall. When coming from west (Bœrsch), this is the first entrance that you pass. 

 JLBG Says:  Close to the Maison Païenne, a peasant clad in traditional Middle-Ages clothing holds the beam over the entrance of a house. I feel that it is a modern carving but anyhow, this is well done and fits well with the surrounding! 

 JLBG Says:  The Maison Romane (Romanesque House) is most of the time nicknamed Maison Païenne (Pagan House) is one of the oldest private houses in Alsace. It was built in stone in 1152 when very few private houses were stone built: most were either wooden houses or half timbered...