Eglise abbatiale Sainte-Walburge

After the foundation of a hermitage in 1074, of which no remains remain, a church was erected from 1105 onwards by the will of Frederick, Duke of Swabia and Peter, Count of Lutzelbourg. The lower parts of the nave walls remain from this building. To the south, a side door has retained its two sculpted (incomplete) pedestals. In 1456, Abbot Burckhard of Mullenheim had the choir rebuilt, the nave walls raised, openings cut in the west wall of the nave and a chapel known as the Chapel of Angels, now the sacristy, built under the direction of the architect Hans Boeblinger. After the Thirty Years' War, the abbey was occupied by the seminary of Strasbourg, run by Jesuits. During the Revolution, it was sold to private individuals and the church was offered to the commune of Walbourg by Michel Pierre Saglio in 1805. In 1945, the church was hit by aerial bombardments and was restored in 1949.

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