Temple Neuf, Strasbourg

The Temple Neuf in Strasbourg is a Lutheran church built on the site of the former Dominican convent where Meister Eckhart studied.

The Temple was constructed at the end of the 19th century after the old Dominican Church was destroyed during the Siege of Strasbourg on the night of 24-25 August 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War.

The current church building was built from 1874 to 1877 in pink sandstone and a Neo-Romanesque style.

The name "Temple Neuf" is a translation of the German name "Neue Kirche" that the former Dominican Church had carried since 1681, when, with the annexation of Strasbourg by Louis XIV of France, the Protestants had to leave Strasbourg Cathedral.

[2] The Church contains the tombstone of Johannes Tauler, the famous Dominicain mystic and preacher.