Sélestat - St Georges Church

In Sélestat, north of Ste-Foy is the church of St-Georges, one of the largest Gothic churches in Alsace (early 13th C), with a richly carved pulpit (1619), old stained glass and a modern work by Max Ingrand. The Municipal Library, founded in 1452 in the abbot's lodgings of the nearby abbey of Ebersmoende, recalls the town's great days as a center of humanism; it possesses valuable manuscripts ranging in date between the seventh and the 16th C, 530 incunabula and 2,000 printed works of the 16th C. Sélestat has also preserved two fine old towers, the Witches' Tower, a relic of the old fortifications restored by Vauban, and the Clock-Tower (14th and 17th C).