The small Romanesque chapel at Urschenheim was built at the end of the 12th century. All that remains of this first construction is the tower, the ground floor of which is a chapel that served as a choir. The rest of the building dates from 1836. This Romanesque chapel is cross-vaulted on columns with cubic capitals. The former triumphal arch is a pointed arch rather than a semicircular arch (characteristic of 12th century construction). The painted floral and geometric decorations date from the Middle Ages, perhaps even from the Romanesque period, according to the architect Karl Winkler, who discovered this polychrome decoration in 1895 and restored it. In 1902, in a book entitled Das Reichsland Elsass-Lotringen, he wrote: ‘Auf Wänden und Gewölben sehr schöne romanische Wandmalerei, wohl die ältesten im Elsass’.