Realising that the small catholic community no longer had a place of worship, his Grace himself, from Pont des Loges, bishop of METZ and a great builder, financed a chapel dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. The front of the chapel shows the door and the window in Neo-Gothic style. It was inaugurated in August 1886, the same day as the benefactor died.
In March 1945, the chapel was badly damaged in the Allied bombardments.
After the war, the reconstruction was slow until Etienne OLLAND arrived in 1958. The latter had a serious illness. He had had a statue of the Virgin sculptured and was looking for somewhere to place it and discovered BAERENTHAL.
He accelerated the work on the chapel and installed the modern statue of the Virgin carved by the sculptor KELLER from MOLSHEIM and the chapel was named ‘Notre Dame de la Confiance’. From the beginning of May, 1960 up to his death in 1971, Etienne OLLAND organised numerous pilgrimages de Notre Dame de la Confiance. Thanks to him the pilgrimages sprung to life and continue to this day.
