The Sainte-Anne Chapel, located in Sigolsheim (now attached to Kaysersberg Vineyard), is a religious building of ancient origins. First dedicated to the Virgin, it was mentioned as early as 778 in a donation charter and certified in 1328. It was probably rebuilt at the beginning of the 16th century (a date of 1508, now erased, was once visible), it was consecrated in 1513 to the Virgin and Saint Wendelin by a suffragan of the Bishop of Basel. Its late Gothic architecture, with braided doors and broken arch windows, reflects this period of reconstruction.
The chapel changed vocation in the 18th century by being dedicated to Saint Anne, while serving as hermitage and then as a cemetery chapel. Little damaged during modern wars unlike the neighbouring village, it retains remarkable elements such as a wall sink in the choir and a sandstone campanile surmounted by a cross. Its inscription to historical monuments in 1938 protects the building, its altars and its interior fittings, now owned by the commune.
Architecturally, the chapel is distinguished by its walls in stoneware and pebbles, its picketed chains of angle, and its east-west orientation. Originally founded by the bishop of Strasbourg in the seventh century according to tradition, it illustrates the evolution of rural places of worship in Alsace, moving from a medieval sanctuary to a baroque building, then to a memorial. Its isolated location, one kilometre from the agglomeration, reinforces its historic and peaceful character.
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