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The house at 11 Poincaré Street in Rouffach is a building dating from the 1st quarter of the 17th century, partially rebuilt around 1660 by the clerk Pierre Hildenbrandt. Its facade features a carved stone lodge (angelots, grimaçant masks) and a chanting gable, characteristic of the 1660s-1670s. Inside, there are older elements, such as a 16th-century doorway and a ceiling with ground soles, possible remains of an earlier construction.

Acquised in 1718 by the Teutonic knights, the house was transformed around 1735 (cage d'étape, salons on the 1st floor) under their auspices, as evidenced by the coat of arms of their dignitaries (Francz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg, Johann Franz Freiherr von Reinach). A project of enlargement, entrusted to architect Johann Caspar Bagnato (1751), was only carried out after his death, probably by his son Franz Anton Bagnato, with the addition of lateral wings.

Sold as a national good at the Revolution, the house will successively house a muslin factory (1810), then the St Joseph Institution (school run by the Ribeauvillé sisters from 1850). A neo-Gothic chapel was added in 1896, supplemented by a school building. In the 20th century, the 18th century wing was raised on the courtyard side. Ranked a historic monument in 1929, it preserves remarkable interior decorations: geometric parquet floors, panelling, baroque studded ceiling, and a fireplace dated 1733.

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