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Origin and history

The Protestant church of Aubure came into being in 1556 when the Reformed preacher François Morel de Colonges, from Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, established a first place of worship there. After the Thirty Years' War, the building was restored to Catholics, ending Protestant worship until its legal recognition in 1802. It was only in the 19th century that the Protestant community reorganized, with the creation of a joint school by Lutherans and reformed in 1821.

In 1827, the parish of Riquewihr appointed a pastor who also held the position of teacher. A house dated 1731 was acquired to build a school, a presbytery and a temple, inaugurated on 6 Nov. 1828. The building, sober and rectangular, evokes a Vosges farm with its rumped roof and wooden bell. An adjacent cemetery was created in 1891, and a new presbytery, in the form of a square with a sandstone porch, was built in 1895.

Inside, the temple is distinguished by its pulpit placed to the north and its furniture, including a tin sharpener by Jean-Jacques Kress (1723–96), probably offered at the inauguration. The ensemble illustrates the adaptation of Alsatian Protestant communities after the religious and political upheavals, mixing architectural simplicity and local artisanal heritage.

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