Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancienne église paroissiale du village disparu de Birsbach, dite Heidenkirche
Butten, Bas-Rhin, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Les vestiges médiévaux de l'ancienne église située sur le massif du Katzenkopf (cad. B 44, 45) : inscription par arrêté du 5 septembre 1996
- Protection dates
- 1996/09/05 : inscrit MH partiellement
- Type
- église
- Main period of construction
- 14e siècle, 15e siècle
- Later work
- 3e quart 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1954
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Address
- Sarre-Union (forêt domaniale de)
- Commune
- Butten
- Département
- Bas-Rhin
- Region
- Grand Est
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.96075, 7.27796
- Mérimée reference
- PA67000001
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1607 map "Alsatia Inferior" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Eglise construite pour l'essentiel au 14e siècle. Abandonnée vers 1560 avec l'introduction de la Réforme, elle tombe en ruines dès 1575. Reconstruction entreprise en 1954, mais l'édifice est à nouveau abandonné. Seul vestige du village disparu de Birsbach.
English translation
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History
Church constructed essentially in the 14th century. Abandoned around 1560 with the introduction of the Reformation, it fell into ruin from 1575. Reconstruction undertaken in 1954, but the building is again abandoned. Sole surviving vestige of the disappeared village of Birsbach.