Saint Maurice Church

Soultz-les-Bains, nestled on the Alsace Wine Route about twenty kilometers west of Strasbourg, is a picturesque wine-growing village crossed by two main perpendicular streets. Its parish church, slightly set back from the main axis, stands on the site of an ancient Merovingian cemetery. The current building, in neo-Gothic style, incorporates a bell tower that corresponds to the former choir of the original church, adorned with sculptures on its original vault. Materials from the old construction were reused during its reconstruction.

Inside, the church houses remarkable elements from the previous building: Crucifixion paintings signed by Daniche (late 18th century), baptismal fonts, a Christ on the cross, as well as a painting of Saint Maurice by Joseph Seelenmayer (1847). The reliquary bust of Saint Morand, dating from the 16th or 17th century, comes from the former chapel dedicated to him, destroyed in 1818. The Silbermann organ, installed in 1762, comes from the Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Catholic Church in Strasbourg. More recent fittings include the side altars from the Wey workshops in Colmar (1889), the main altar, the pulpit (1897), and the choir paneling (1904) from the Théophile Klem workshops in Colmar.

The church tower houses Romanesque frescoes on the first level of exceptional richness and quality in Alsace.

The church is closed to the public outside of services. To visit, it is possible to borrow the key: at the town hall during secretariat opening hours (for example Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.), or outside these hours at 13 rue Saint-Maurice, from the Goefft family, opposite the church.