Protestant Church of Saint Margaret

The current Protestant temple, built in 1846 in a neoclassical style, stands on the site of a former Gothic parish church dedicated to Saint Margaret, constructed between the 12th and 15th centuries and now disappeared. After the adoption of the Reformation in 1534 by the Dukes of Württemberg, the building was reserved for Protestant worship, then shared with Catholics from 1687 under a simultaneum arrangement. Becoming dilapidated by 1846, it was demolished due to lack of funds for restoration and replaced by the present church, designed by architects Jean-François Giroy and François Louis Laubser, who also designed the Catholic church located outside the fortified town walls around 1500.

The temple's façade, very sober, consists of two levels divided into three sections, each marked by a round-arched window. The slightly projecting central bay houses the main entrance, flanked by two pilasters adorned with capitals featuring foliage and volutes. Above, a two-story square tower and a small bell tower crown the structure.

Inside, the temple houses a renowned Stiehr-Mockers organ, whose cases are classified as Historic Monuments. Commissioned in 1781 for the former mixed church by organ builder Langes, originally from the Austrian Tyrol and established in Uffholtz in Haut-Rhin, its case is inspired by that of the church in Soultz (Haut-Rhin), built by Jean-André Silbermann in 1750. The instrument features a central turret with three faces, typical of Langes, as well as two side turrets topped with angels playing violin or trumpet. The instrumental part was replaced in 1853 by the makers Stiehr and Mockers, based in Seltz in Bas-Rhin.