Tourist attractions Rouffach

Housed in a 13C Dominican convent, this museum contains works by Grünewald, Schongauer and Isenmann, in particular. Dedicated in part to Rhineland art, it displays impressive collections of paintings, sculptures and minor arts from the late Middle Ag..

Saint Firmin decided to found his abbey here in 727 because the remote wooded valley was good for walking and meditation. The abbey, however, soon became one of the most powerful Benedictine abbeys in the region, with rights over 300 villages. The ab..

Since 1980, some 70 traditional old houses have been patiently taken down and meticulously rebuilt here to form an open-air museum of Alsace. Grouped together by rural area, they provide an insight into the region's traditions in the 19C and 20C. All..

Built in 1537 by a hatter of Besancon, with its painted facades, its glassed angular oriels, its delicately sculpted Gallery that supports some attractively worked corbels; this is a true jewel of Alsace architecture.

The square containing the old customs post, the Rue des Marchands and the Rue Mercière form the heart of the old town. The old Alsace dwellings are in abundance there, most picturesque with their flower-covered balconies, corbelled turrets, oriel win..

The woods and pastureland, high-altitude lakes and fir forests lying at the foot of the "blue line of the Vosges", between Kaysersberg, Munster and the Col du Bonhomme are a great draw for hikers, who can take paths leaving from the Trois-É..

This flamboyant Gothic building built in the 16th century has mullioned windows and an oriel window with five panels.

The west façade, framed by two high towers, contains a porch surmounted by arcatures and bays. Like the nave, transept and aisles, it dates from the 12 and 13C. Notice the ladders suspended from the vault of the right-hand aisle: is there some work i..

Collections relating to archaeology, folklore, religious art and history of the Florival area. But it is the works of Théodore Deck (1823-1891) which will catch your eye. This Guebwiller ceramicist, a director of the Sèvres Manufactory, rediscovered ..

This church demands one's attention through its majestic proportions. The neoclassical façade of red sandstone is decorated with statues representing the theological and cardinal virtues. Inside, the masterly elevation boasts a thoroughly Roman pomp...

A signposted tour allows you to discover the former wall walk. The narrow and paved alleys are lined by old but architecturally rich houses (balconies, oriel windows, wooded panels, pointed gables).

Formerly a fortified town inhabited by market gardeners who travelled around the watercourses on board flat-bottomed boat.

In this building roofed with varnished tiles, the merchandise subject to communal tax used to be stored in the ground floor of the main building. On the other floor used to sit the representatives of the Decapole, the league of ten free Alsace villag..

Following the Rue des Tanneurs which runs alongside the canal and the Tanners quarter, and having crossed a bridge over the River Lauch, you will enter into the Krutenau quarter which used to be a fortified suburb, populated by market gardeners. It h..

This very attractive Renaissance house is flanked at the corners by octagonal towers. Further on in the Grand'rue is the Schwendi fountain.

The inhabitants of Colmar call this the «Cathedral of Colmar». It is built of red sandstone and two towers flank its main portal. The St Nicholas Portal signed by « Maestro Humbert » is decorated with the legend of the Saint. Inside an organ chest fr..

This large house is a fine example of Renaissance architecture. It has a pointed roof partly hidden by scrolled gables intermingled with pinnacles and countless other decorative details (including more than a hundred sculpted heads on the façade).

The Vallée de la Thur may have been industrialised, but it has managed to preserve some of its natural beauty. Its villages (such as Willer-sur-Thur, Moosh and Ranspach), nestled at the feet of some of the highest mountains in the Vosges, are truly c..

The first sign you see of the museum dedicated to woodwork and heritage is a sculpture of a horse towing wooden logs. On the ground floor you can find out about woodcutting techniques, from the days of pit sawyers up until the machine age, with a saw..

The oldest part is the transept. The north and south towers, unfinished due to the 1870 war, date from the 19C. This church is characteristic of the Germanic school of architecture. The large interior arcades have alternating thick and thin supports...