Église Saint-Martin-des-Champs

The church of Saint-Martin-des-Champs owes its name to its location in the open field, not far from Oltingue. Built in the 13th century on the site of an old chapel, it is distinguished by its classification as a historical monument.

Saint-Martin-des-Champs is located in the middle of the fields, about 500 meters from the village of Oltingue.

It is a very special church in more ways than one. It was the mother church of Oltingue and 3 disappeared villages.

As early as the 7th century, a family of notables had erected a small cemetery chapel, on the site of a former Gallo-Roman rural settlement.

Classified today as a historic monument, archaeological excavations, carried out in 1989, made it possible to distinguish four phases of development from the 12th to the 13th century.

The current church was built at the end of the 13th century and was remodeled in 1868 (neo-Gothic windows and doors). The excavations brought to light various burials still visible today in the nave of the building! A monolithic sarcophagus (7th, 8th century), a masonry tomb from the 8th century: it contains a skeleton whose raised feet rested on the bones of five individuals, proof of a long reuse. The burial deposits included

The Saint-Martin des Champs church dating from the 14th century is classified as a historic monument.
It dates from the 13th century and would have been the church of several villages since the Merovingian or pre-Carolingian era. It would be built on the site of a pre-Christian sanctuary.
Prehistoric objects and Gallo-Roman remains prove the antiquity of the site.