It is particularly renowned for the quality of the stained glass windows that decorated the large cloister of the fathers, as well as for its rich library and especially the famous codex Hortus deliciarum, which was kept there for several decades.

The charterhouse was active until the French Revolution, during which time it was closed, sold as national property, divided into several lots, partially destroyed and provided with an urban roadway.

In return, the Council of the XV first demanded that the Carthusian patrimony be managed by laymen, then forbade the holding of liturgical services, and finally the entry of novices, which condemned the community in the medium term.

He appealed to the bishops of Cologne, Mainz and Trier (Ernest of Bavaria, Wolfgang of Dalberg and John of Schönenberg respectively), who submitted a petition to Rudolf II.

[3] The community bought the house known as "Böcklerhof" from Barbe de Schauenbourg, widow of a Böcklin von Böcklinsau, for 5,000 florins; at the same time, on August 21, 1598, a treaty was signed between Henri IV and the Carthusian monks, the latter obtaining compensation of 7,500 livres tournois per annum for their losses in Strasbourg.

The latter had come two years earlier to study at the Jesuit college, and regularly attended the charterhouse under the pretext of visiting his uncle, but in reality to steal from the community's funds.

[4] On May 9, 1623, the cornerstone of the chapter house was laid by master masons Lucas Vieph and Christophe Wambser; two years later, on October 26, 1625, the building was completed and consecrated.

11% were located in lands under the seigniory of Choiseul-Stainville, mainly near Haguenau; another 11% were attached to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg, which was then under the control of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt; another 11% belonged to various nobles of Lower Alsace.

A number of substances, mainly of plant origin, but also potassium bitartrate in very small doses, were combined in a sachet which the monks left to infuse for 24 hours in warm white wine.

It is a codex, created by Herrad of Landsberg for the religious instruction of her nuns at Mont Sainte-Odile Abbey, and dating from the 11th century; it was considered the most valuable manuscript preserved in Alsace.

It consisted of 342 folios with 336 thumbnails of almost 7,000 persons, presenting a wide range of subjects, such as theology, philosophy, history, astronomy, physics, geography and mythology.

On the following March 11, the municipality of Dorlisheim was authorised to take possession of the Moulin de la Chartreuse (120 years later, this mill was bought by Ettore Bugatti, who built his factory there).

On June 15, 1793 (27 Prairial, Year I), "five altars, two iron fences, 96 pieces of mirror glass in the choir, the prie Dieu stalls and other woodwork" were sold and dispersed, along with the exotic trees in the orangery.

The Molsheim miller Jean Geoffroy Augst, the collector Alexis Foccart, the Strasbourg merchant Louis Quinon and the notary André Bremsinger signed the deed of sale of the charterhouse on the 18th of the same month.

In 1809, the prior's house, the probable residence of Jean Geoffroy Augst, was cleared and the Rue de la Chartreuse was opened in place of the old conventual buildings.

Claudine Foccart, a descendant of Louis Éloi, used "a large bundle of scrolls dating from the 14th to the 18th century, left over from the Carthusian archives [as] an apron or to cover jam jars".

On September 2, 1606, Adam Peetz, auxiliary bishop of Strasbourg during the lay administration of Leopold V of Austria-Tyrol, laid the foundation stone on the site of the main altar.

An iron grate was also added in 1652, made by the master locksmith of the city of Strasbourg to separate the nave between the "brothers' choir" and the "secular benches", the latter being open to the rest of the monastery's inhabitants.

[24] The bequest of Father Matthieu Reis, who died on March 9, 1672, allowed the commissioning of a new high altar from Jean-Christophe Feinlein, a cabinetmaker in Waldshut on the Rhine above Basel.

Unlike an abbey cloister, although it also forms an elongated rectangle, the north and south wings extend beyond the east and west galleries to serve all the fathers' cells.

[39][37] The stained glass windows are the work of Lorentz and Barthélemy Linck; without further clarification, it is not possible to define whether the latter is the first of the name, father of Laurent, or the second, brother of the latter, although modern historiography tends to favour this second hypothesis.

Finally, in 1771, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who only mentioned this one monument on his trip to Alsace, briefly recalled that "in the cloister of the abbey [sic] of Molsheim, we admired the stained glass windows painted in colour".

Joseph Klein suggested placing an advertisement in The London Gazette, stating that "English connoisseurs" had estimated the entire collection at one hundred thousand pounds.

In 1842, the historian Charles Schmidt mentions these windows in his Notice sur la ville de Strasbourg, and attributes them to Lorentz Linck, as well as to "Léonard" (and not Barthélémy).

The more qualitative treatment of the first part of the building was particularly evident in the façade, decorated with a pediment representing Mary of Magdala, at the entrance to a cave and with her hand resting on a skull.

[46][14] The L-shaped building comprises a nine-bay first-floor guesthouse on the north side, crossed on the ground floor by a carriageway, closed at both ends by double doors.

[14] The wing on the west side of the main courtyard, although part of the same complex as the northern guesthouse, had a very different function and was known as the reception building (recette): it included the house of the procureur (the monastery's steward or man of business).

Contrary to what the regular façade with its fifteen bays of windows suggests, the interior layout was rather irregular, which most probably reflects the re-use of older walls or foundations.

The proximity of the urban area, and in particular the eastern gate of the charterhouse, just north of the tithe barn (Dîme de Molsheim), meant that the monks were often disturbed in their devotions by the cries of children.

On the other hand, heavy work undertaken in 1987 concreted the staircase of the guest wing up to the roofs, notwithstanding the protection of the Historic Monuments, which eliminated the wrought iron banister.