Wettolsheim

Wettolsheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace with 1675 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011). It belongs to the district of Colmar, in the canton of Wintzenheim and the Association of Local Authorities of the compression chamber Colmar ( Communauté d' agglomération de Colmar).

Geography

The community Wettolsheim lies on the eastern edge of the Vosges, just five kilometers southwest of the city center of Colmar. The municipal area extends from the shores of the leeks in the east over vast vineyards up to the wooded heights of the Vosges Mountains to the west and is part of the Regional Natural Park of Ballons des Vosges.

Neighboring communities of Wettolsheim are Wintzenheim in the northwest and north, Colmar in the northeast, Sainte -Croix -en- Plaine in the southeast and Eguisheim in the south.

Demographics

Attractions

  • Grotte de Lourdes grandeur réelle: Archbishop François -Xavier Schoepfer (1843-1927), Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes from 1899 to 1927, was in 1912, at the place of his birth house, which was destroyed on August 10, 1911 by a fire in a built copy of Massabielle in Lourdes, which corresponds in its shape and its dimensions to the original. The statue of the Virgin herself was made ​​of a stone of the place where in 1858 Saint Bernadette Soubirous was released the Immaculate Conception. The cave is located in the center of the village and still forms the framework for many religious ceremonies.
  • Châtelet of Hagueneck: The Hageneck castle was built in the eleventh century on a rocky outcrop 420 meters above sea level in a valley above the village Wettolsheim. It is owned by the municipality, which it acquired in 1912 for 42,000 gold marks. The Donjon of the castle is accessible to hikers.
  • Archaeological site Koenig Width: From the late 1980s planned Ricoh Industrie France to settle in Wettolsheim on the Koenig width, a place that was known for archaeological work in the fields or partial excavations by the pastor Sig and Abbot Glory for a long time. The exhumed remains date back to times that date back more than five millennia, from the ancient Neolithic period (around 5300 BC) to the Roman period.
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