USSELSKIRCH TOWER AND ITS WAY OF THE CROSS
Overlooking the entire Moselle valley, raised to more than 250 m above sea level, the Usselskirch tower was the former tower of a parish church built in the xie century and destroyed at the end of the nineteenth century. A cross crossed the building around the building. Of the fourteen original carved blocks, only eight representations remain today. These masterpieces of Lorraine folk art are beautifully carved in limestone. Note also a older vestige, a Gallo-Roman warhead, embedded in the tower wall. Although the tower has gone through almost 1,000 years of history, it remains an archeological puzzle today. Its romanesque style, its atypical hexagonal shape and its lack of outdoor openings help shape its singularity. During the Second World War, it has a strategic function by becoming an observatory, from which the Maginot line can be seen.
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