A secteur sauvegardé since 1974, and 232 historic monuments

Bains municipauxClasséAncien Palais impérial allemand ou Kaiserpalast, dit Palais du RhinClasséMaison des TanneursClasséÉglise protestante Saint-NicolasClasséAncien Hôtel de Saxe (ancien Hôtel de Purgerot de Wardener)Classé+201See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its license; names open the monument’s page.

A site patrimonial remarquable protects a whole area rather than one building: inside it, building work follows the area’s own plan and needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France. A PSMV (plan de sauvegarde et de mise en valeur) is the strictest plan: it covers every building, inside as well as out.

The list gives no boundaries, so the map can’t show the area.

Classé is the higher protection: any work on the building needs the State’s permission. Work on an inscrit building must be declared to the State in advance. Around both, building work in sight of the monument (usually within 500 m) needs the agreement of the architecte des Bâtiments de France.

Points as the ministry gives them: a monument spread over several plots has one point. 9 monuments have no point on the map.

91 more, named only by their kind

91 more are named in the list only by their kind: 66 houses (maisons), 21 buildings (immeubles), 2 town houses (hôtels) and 2 others, most from the 16th and 17th centuries. The 91 with an address are in the list above, by it.

See all 232 on the map

First protected, in 1862: Ancienne Maison de l'Oeuvre-Notre-Dame, Cathédrale Notre-Dame and Église protestante Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune. 62 were protected in 1929 alone. 12 have been added since 2011.

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Since 1974, the heart of Strasbourg has been a secteur sauvegardé, France’s strictest protection for a historic town. In all there are 232 historic monuments, 64 of them classé, including Ancien hôtel d'Andlau-Klinglin. Per resident, it has more historic monuments than 81% of compared French towns. Its classé monuments cluster together: 29 of them stand within 400 m of Cathédrale Notre-Dame. The Mission Patrimoine has picked 2 of its monuments as heritage in danger to save, Église protestante Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune first, in 2018.

Only 2 of the 41 towns nearest its size have more historic monuments. Most entries on the list, 69%, are houses and homes. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: 11% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 7.4% in the median compared French town.