Strasbourg - Musée Alsacien

In Strasbourg, west of the Place du Corbeau, in a patrician house of 1620, is the Musée Alsacien (folk art, furniture, costumes, domestic equipment, etc.).

From Place Gutenberg the Rue des Serruriers (Locksmiths' Street) runs southwest to the church of St-Thomas, the only hall-church in Alsace, which has a Romanesque west end (1230-1250), a Gothic nave (c 1330) and an octagonal tower over the crossing (1348), with a clock which for 400 years has struck the hours four minutes too soon, in order to make itself heard before the cathedral clock strikes. In the apse is the tomb of the French marshal Maurice de Saxe (d. 1750), an allegorical marble group by J.- B. Pigalle (1777). The church has a Silbermann organ (1737-1740), on which Albert Schweitzer frequently played.