Chapelle Saint-Erhard
Chapelle Saint-Erhard stands in France as a Gothic brick chapel with pointed arches and two levels. Its polygonal choir survived the fire that destroyed much of the surrounding hospital church in 1716. Above, former hospital meeting rooms contrast with the lower space devoted to Protestant worship and memory.
Built between 1396 and 1428, the chapel originally sheltered patients and their carers within a larger church. Later, steeply tiered benches turned the interior into an anatomical theatre for almost 200 years. Students and spectators from across Europe gathered here for medical lectures and dissections. Worship returned in 1889, followed by a neo-Gothic interior and renovation between 1972 and 1974.
A sealed entrance still carries a carved Latin inscription dated 1740. Inside, a Baroque plaque commemorates anatomy professor Philippe-Henri Boecler, while Ernest Werlé’s stained-glass window brings colour across the stone. These details hold together fire, medical study, Protestant faith and centuries of adaptation.
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