Guebwiller - Eglise Saint-Léger

The construction of the church Saint-Léger (= Leodegar, Ludger) in Guebwiller started in 1182 and took about 100 years. The church was built from local red sandstone in a style between late romanesque and early gothic. The most interesting point I found is, that the architects of this church obviously spent a lot of time in Rosheim, studying the church Saints-Pierre-et-Paul, that is only about 30 years older.

The structure is huge and the crossing tower is impressive. The choir, seen here, was added around 1350 and is gothic. Please note the otherwise unspectacular triangel, that I marked. What was an architectural "invention" in Molsheim - here simply got copied.