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Église Sainte-Foy de Sélestat


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Sélestat - Sainte-Foy

Sélestat - Sainte-Foy
The "Église Sainte-Foy de Sélestat" was built in only 10 years between 1170 and 1180, succeeding an earlier ("Holy Sepulcre")church from around 1085 built by Hildegard von Egisheim. Of this church only the rectangular crypt (and some carvings) remained. Hildegard´s famous grandson Frederick I Barbarossa funded the construction of this new church, that was the center of a benedictine monastery, affiliated to the abbey St. Foy in Conques.

The capital of the pillar in the right window depicts a group of four hunters (each on one side), holding four chimares (birds with lion heads), placed on each corner of the capital.

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