Protestant Church

In 1635, the first Protestant church-school in Aubure was destroyed.

It was not until 1827 that the Lutheran and Reformed (Calvinist and Zwinglian) communities reached an agreement on Protestant worship practices. They then acquired a farm dating from 1731, which they transformed into a complex housing a school and a parsonage, while adding a church. This building, more akin to a civil construction by its volumes, resembles a typical plateau farm, enhanced by a small bell tower.

In 1846, the Aubure municipality classified the Protestant school as private because it taught German, unlike the public school where French was mandatory.

This episode illustrates the long-standing tensions between the village's two religious communities: on one side, the *Welsches*, French-speaking Catholics who arrived after the Thirty Years' War; on the other, the German-speaking Protestants, the first inhabitants of Aubure, who felt their children were poorly integrated into the Catholic public school, where French, a language not understood by their parents, was imposed.