Located on the slopes of the Malzéville plateau overlooking the Moselle valley, the Saint-Rémi church stands in the heart of the perched village of Eulmont. The parish was attested to in 959, during a donation by Eve, Countess of Chaumontois, and her son Odalric, future bishop of Reims: an exceptional seniority among rural villages in Lorraine. Originally, the place of worship is not an autonomous priory but a shrine dependent on Lay-Saint-Christophe, served by the priors of Lay, which reveals its insertion into an ancient monastic structure. This dependence continued until 1 May 1339, when Duke Raoul of Lorraine placed Eulmont under his protection, and then until 21 June 1708, when the bishop of Toul detached the church of Lay. The present building, undertaken by the Lay Priors, was completed in 1518.
The church has a remarkable architectural stratification. The bell tower, a three-storey square tower pierced with geminated bays in broken arches and an oculus, is dated the fourteenth century. The flamboyant Gothic choir (15th century) offers a star vault with liernes and thirdons, flowered keys and an armorized key from a bishop, as well as a cut-sided bedside flanked by foothills. The nave, linking the bell tower to the Gothic part, is of 16th century origin, rebuilt in the 17th century then modified in the 19th, when the neo-Gothic portal appearing the baptism of Clovis by Saint Rémi is added. The ensemble forms a beautiful rural church typical of Lorraine, with harmonious proportions and perfectly integrated into its village.
Today, the Saint-Rémi church belongs to the parish of Saint-Jean-XXIII of the Plateau de Malzéville, under the diocese of Nancy and Toul. Every month it hosts Sunday Masses and special celebrations. A restoration programme is under way, including the structure and covers of the choir and the nave.
