Monuments to visit Lorraine

Little calves, don't do it, it's going up! It is by the rue du Château that you will reach the rocky outcrop. The lower castle contains the base of an 11th century keep, surrounded by an enclosure flanked by three towers, opened and built in 1488. To reach the upper castle, a tower dating from the 12th century, you have to go on a very steep path following a ramp cut into the rock. From the wooden platform, the view of the Vosges, the Rhine and Ill valleys, the Black Forest and the Jura heights is breathtaking.

As in the middle of a field, the Dosches mill is worth a visit after a hike in the East Forest Park. This mill, inaugurated in 2007, was entirely designed and realized by the association of windmills with windmills. The purpose: reproduce a pivot mill as there were 140 in the Dawn in the eighteenth century. Functional, it is used by sucker or animators to explain the manufacture of flour at the time. You can then watch the bread at the Dimanches in the countryside. You will first be welcomed in a beautiful barn, where the mill shop is also located. The walk in the garden around the site is also really pleasant. You can plan to spend the whole afternoon there. The association's website is very comprehensive and you will find all the information to prepare your visit.

The castle was built by Rodolphe d'Andlau around 1344. Many conflicts erupt between Strasbourg and the Andlau, but the castle escapes from destruction every time. Occupied by Swedes during the Thirty Years War, it was destroyed by French troops of Maréchal Marshal in 1678. The remains have a polygonal enclosure, two cylindrical dungeons, ogival doors and windows, a square dungeon and a body of géminées windows.

On the ban in the commune of Kauffenheim is this pretty building built on a bypass of Sauer. Mentioned before the year, and then frequently in the th and th centuries, the mill still produces, according to artisanal methods, organic flour from cereals grown without use of chemicals, and traditional flour. You can buy for a good price, from 5 kg, for the traditional and 1 kg for bio, this to prepare your crêpes evenings, your bread or your Christmas bredeles.

The Sentheim convalescence centre is in fact the old castle built by the Louis Bian industrialist in 1864. In 1935, the brothers of Saint-Jean-de-Dieu became owners and transformed the place into a resting house. Today, property of the Diaconate, its magnificent park houses white deer from Russia.

Construction of more than 150 years. In this lavoir, renovated in 1999 and housed in a museum, there are lavandières scenes of yesteryear, visible from outside. He gets enlightened at night, which gives him another aspect.

A mégalithe built nearly 4 000 years ago, which was more than 7 m high. During excavations undertaken in the 2nd century, it collapsed and broke into pieces. It was restored in 1845 and is now classified as a historic monument.

Set in a church of the th century, the treasure of the place dates from the th century: The Flemish altarpiece in hard wood or carved and painted oak illustrates the flamboyant Gothic style. This is an admirable work at the German school in Nuremberg, done in Antwerp. Visit: 3 €.