Monuments to visit Lorraine

Seven years of construction will have been necessary to complete, in 1775, the library of the abbey of Saint-Mihiel. One counts there nearly 8,800 rare works among which 77 old manuscripts (oldest dating from the 9th century) like 86 incunables, of the works published between the invention of printing works (1450) and 1500. All these invaluable works constituting the collections of the funds Benedictines are preserved in their original building. Their setting is quite as exceptional: an anteroom richly decorated as well as part of the elegant spacious dining room. Among the remarkable books: The Gradual one, manuscript of 1463 decorated anthropomorphic letters and illuminations; the manuscript of Dom Loupvent, delivers decorated with paintings which preserved its binding of time or the manuscript of Alcuin, collection of the 10th century writes in small letters on parchment. The library bénédictine is located upstairs and the ground floor was transformed into prison at the 19th century before the musée départemental of Sacred art of the Meuse is created in 1998. Twenty minutes an introductory video will be presented to you before your visit where you will be able to admire unsuspected treasures.

Frequented by the students from the Ecole de l'image (Beaux-Arts), this small library is a true wonder, and this for lovers of ancient and contemporary art. It combines wonderfully indeed modernity (in design) and antiquity (with old exposed stones). At the heart of the museum, on the first floor, there are more than 2,500 books. This library also has an interesting collection of old books that concern archaeology, numismatics, popular imagery. Many recent works books also offer a fairly complete picture of ancient and contemporary artistic creation, as well as the history of Vosges and Lorraine.

Illustrating the industrial richness of the Utzschneider family, this castle, which was completed in 1906, refers to several styles. If the inspiration of the Italian Renaissance dominates with the use of the windows windows and the staircase of the hall of honour; the association of brick, stone and slate is rather reminiscent of the French architecture of the early th century. But what makes this building exceptional is its front façade. In fact, the architects Berninger and Krafft from Strasbourg, from the school of architecture in Stuttgart, were happy to use assymétrie. The front and rear were probably reversed so that the receptions could be kept out of sight, at the back of the building, which reveals the most beautiful facade. Occupied by the Nazis during the Second World War, this building, which lasted for a long time, now houses the hotel of the Sarreguemines Generation community.