Église Saint-Étienne-et-Sainte-Catherine de Schnersheim, Fortified church in Schnersheim, France.

Église Saint-Étienne-et-Sainte-Catherine stands on Rue du Général de Gaulle, built of rough reddish-brown masonry. Its square tower at the left carries a steep dark slate spire with a cross, arched openings and a clock; the gabled facade has a large circular window with a sculpted figure and crosses at the roof peak and corners. Inside, a pointed stone arch frames a raised altar with a red cloth, a gilded spired reredos, stained-glass windows and a circular metal chandelier.

The current church was built in 1887 to replace the medieval church, of which only the Romanesque bell tower base and a sculpted capital remain.

The choir windows are the work of Jacques Le Chevallier, dated 1955; the two narrow pointed windows flanking the gilded reredos show stained glass, and the rest of the set runs around the choir. Le Chevallier, born in 1896, was a painter and glassmaker who also worked on the windows of the abbey church at Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris.

The church stands on Rue du Général de Gaulle in Schnersheim, at 48.657064 N, 7.568791 E. The parish can be reached at 03 88 50 75 38. The tower clock and the arched openings below the slate spire are best seen from the street side, where trees stand before the lower wall.

The tower's Romanesque base and a carved capital are the only medieval remnants left after the 1887 rebuild; the rest of the church, including the gabled facade and slate spire, dates from that campaign. The 1559 Reformation switch and the 1595 return to Catholicism are recorded for the parish, which passed under episcopal control.