The Gauls called the Vosges the "mountain of wild bulls". Still today the Northern Vosges Nature Reserve, which lies within the triangle formed between Wissembourg-Saverne-Volmunster, is teeming with a variety of wildlife (including stags, ..

This 13C Gothic church, made of sandstone, was originally a 7C Benedictine monastery. A square bell-tower, a vestige of the earlier Romanesque church adjoins the right side of the building. The heads were removed from its statues and its paintings de..

Built of pink sandstone from 1741 to 1752, with a pediment, small tower and clock, to plans by Massol, it replaced the old Rathaus which burned down in a fire on 25 January 1677. It offers a pleasant view of the flower beds in the foreground with the..

This attractive Gothic house with small corner towers was a post house from 1793 to 1854; Napoleon is supposed to have stopped there in 1806.

This old patrician house (1491) was used as an inn until 1603 and then belonged to the Bartholdis until the late 18C. It has barely changed since that time.

With its richly decorated Renaissance doorway and painted coat-of-arms, this house, dating from 1540, is one of the most attractive houses in Wissembourg.

It can be recognised by its roof, divided into canopies over dormer windows opening onto balconies. It was initially a hospital (1448) and later a salt warehouse and abattoir.

This elegant house dating from the end of the Age of Enlightenment used to be the residence of the Dean of the Collegiate Church.

The old abbey tithe barn is next to the house of the Teutonic knights dating from 1606. The Teutonic order, founded in the 12C in the Holy Land, disappeared in the Revolution.

The residence, from 1719 to 1725, of King Stanislas Lesczynski whose daughter Maria married Louis XV in 1725. Beyond the hospital is the district called the Schlupf, Wissembourg's Little Venice.

This restored Protestant church dates back to the 15C, except for the 13C Romanesque bell-tower. The courtyard on the left of the church contains ancient tombstones made of red Vosges sandstone.

In a 16C house, the museum has collections of old furniture (superb cupboards), peasant costumes and souvenirs from the 1870 battlefield. The museum also has a replica of the abbey church crown hanging light destroyed in the Revolution. The 11C origi..

A walk along the mound of the old ramparts, planted with elms and ash, reveals the shiny rooftops of the old quarter, the majestic towers of the Church of St Peter and St Paul and, in the distance, the rolling Vosges mountains. One wall runs alongsid..

Note the patrician residence dating from the 16 and 17C. A house in this district (the one with a slanting cut-off corner, decked with a loggia and oriel window (1550)) was used as the decor for the film L'Ami Fritz in 1933.