Church of Notre-Dame of the Assumption, Rouffach
This church is from the 11th century, and its current transept with its high apsidioles is one of the purest specimens of Romanesque art of the Germanic emperors. Of the first Romanesque church, destroyed by fire in 1199, only the transept remains. The church was then rebuilt and became the first Gothic building in Alsace.
About this building
This original Romanesque church has been greatly modified over time and is presented with this curious mixture of Romanesque and Gothic style: Inside the church, the nave is of Gothic style of the 13th century, while the transept is, as for it, romance, vestige of the first Church of the XIth century. On the left side of the nave, a beautiful Virgin and Child, under a decorative stone set. A beautiful rosette with twenty lancets can be admired on the western massif.
