Saint Stephen's Church, Strasbourg

[1] A new church was built on the site in early in 717 by Duke Adalbert of Alsace, brother of Saint Odile, as part of a new convent, in which he installed his daughter Attala as the first abbess.

[4] In the seventeenth century Louis XIV closed the abbey and transferred it to the Visitandines to serve as a boarding school for young women, a function which continued up until the French Revolution.

The college, of which the church now forms part, began life in 1861 as a 'Petit seminaire' (literally 'little seminary'), educating future priests as well as lay students.

[5] As the Church is now part of a school, public access is only possible on special occasions, such as European Heritage Days.

The school owns some valuable historical tapestries from the abbey church, some of which can be seen in the nearby Notre Dame museum.