Old Saint Peter's Church, or Saint-Pierre-le-Vieux, in Strasbourg is a simultaneum, shared by Catholic and Lutheran congregations. It was first mentioned in 1130, and it is one of nine medieval parish churches of the Diocese of Strasbourg. In 1398 the chapter of the Abbey of Honau moved here from Rhinau after flooding there.
Strasbourg joined the Reformation on February 20, 1529, and the church became Lutheran. In 1683 Louis XIV ordered a dividing wall built by the rood screen, and the Catholic rite was restored. The Catholic part was extended in 1867 by Conrath. A door was opened in the dividing wall in 2012.
The Catholic side has ten Gothic paintings of the Passion by Heinrich Lutzelmann, from 1485. The Lutheran side has a Holy Family by Hans Wydyz from the 1520s, a monument historique.
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