Place de la Comédie

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    Place de la Comédie, Quartier de la Gare
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Neoclassical Place de la Comédie, bounded by one of the channels of the Moselle, is home to the city's Théâtre (1738-53), the oldest theatre building in France that's still in use. During the Revolution, place de l'Égalité (as it was then known) was the site of a guillotine that lopped the heads off 63 'enemies of the people'. The neo-Romanesque Temple Neuf (Protestant Church), sombre and looming, was constructed under the Germans in 1903.