2024

BRETON CHURCH

Religious buildings

The Breton church, the third oldest in the country (19th century), is not to be outdone in terms of history. It seems that one enters through the gates of the past, near and far at the same time. Its bell tower is said to have been financed by a countess of the French aristocracy. On one of the bells, fallen and largely chipped, one can read its origin (Villedieu France) and its quality: a gift from a certain Mrs Wintz de Hocfelden, an Alsatian, to her son in 1897. Long abandoned and renovated in 2017, the church has now regained its former splendour.

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