In Strasbourg
They are the heirs of the builders of the cathedrals.
Across Europe, stonemasons and sculptors, blacksmiths, locksmiths and masons, gathered in workshops, maintain and restore these stone vessels built in the Middle Ages, drawing on ancestral know-how at the same time. and the most advanced technologies.
Of all these cathedral workshops, the Fondation de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame de Strasbourg is the only one to have existed without interruption since the 13th century.
This specificity, unique in Europe, has earned it being included, in 2017, in the French inventory of intangible cultural heritage.
"The secular dimension of L'Oeuvre Notre-Dame and its link with the city of Strasbourg preserved it at the time of the Revolution"
Éric Fischer, director of the foundation
After recognition at the French level, it was a question of obtaining that of Unesco, especially as the Grande-Île de Strasbourg, had been classified in 1998 as a world heritage site.
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To give more weight to our candidacy, we have federated seventeen other workshops which are devoted exclusively to cathedrals and large churches
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