Strasbourg

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Adalbert, Duke of Alsace and brother of Saint Odile, who died in 722, is credited with founding the monastery of Saint Stephen. The relics of St Attale, Adalbert’s daughter and the site’s first abbess, attracted so many pilgrims that their donations enabled the church to be rebuilt in the last quarter of the 12th century. Already badly damaged during the 19th century, when it was used as a theatre, the Romanesque church was destroyed by aerial bombardments in 1944, leaving only the transept and the choir with its three barrel-vaulted apses. A fine Romanesque lintel depicting two dragons facing each other can be seen in the south transept. The nave is modern (1961).

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