NIEDERMORSCHWIHR
Beautifull small village, near Colmar, surrounded of its vineyard and
which has several beautiful houses as well as an architectural curiosity, the
bell-tower of its church. A pretty stage of the wine trail.
Information practise of Niedermorschwihr
600 inhabitants, to 5 km of Colmar.
Carpark downtown, free.
No the tourist bureau.
History of Niedermorschwihr
The site seems to have been occupied as of the Roman empire, but it is only
quoted for the first time in 1148. It is then possession from various religious
establishment. The village undergoes destruction in the course of time, in
particular at the time of the Thirty Year old war and the Second World war.
Joli
small typically Alsatian village, located at the medium
of the vinegnards and in the midle of the wine trail.
Beginning of the
winter
With the first
Snowflakes...
Romance church kept its
twisted bell-tower of
13 th century
single in Alsace, and which only one
about fifteen specimen exist in Europe.
Along of the principal street
you will be able to admire old houses with oriels and
half-timberings, fed formerly by fountains and wells out of sandstone dating
the 15 th century.
You
will find at the village:
Trade: bakery, pastry making, grocer, many wine growers 1 restaurants
and 3 caveaux (vinstubs)
In Colmar (5 km):
Several supermarkets,
Swimming pool, skating rink, Sporting equipment etc...
All services of a large city.
On the spot...
Excursions
several small stroll picturesque easy in
the vineyard. Around the village, on the ways of Sommerberg and of Brand,
cradles of the Great Vintages, with panoramic sight on the plain of Alsace,
COLMAR, TURCKHEIM, TROIS-EPIS.
Further view to the Black Forest in Germany. According to the particular
atmospheric conditions you can see the Alps.
By hot summer days a walk in very close forest will lead you to the
shade of the chestnuts, beeches, birches with the TROIS-EPIS to 900 m of
altitude.
OTHER
Distractions In the vicinity:
Fishing: 5 km
Swimming pools: 5 km
Tennis:
5 km
Golf:
5 km
Horsemanship: 5 km
Skating rink: 5 km
Ski crosscountry and alpine: 15 km
EXCURSIONS:
EN
furrowing the long Wine trail the 170 km, you will discover Alsace with its
vinegnards, peaceful army climbing with the attack of the Vosgean forests, the
ruins of the proud castles of the Average Age, the villages surrounded of these
old ramparts which do not protect any more but from the flowered lanes, the
winstubs, the secular houses, the Romance churches or the wells bequeathed by
the “Renaissance”.
Turckheim,
Kaysersberg, Riquewihr, Eguisheim... in a radius of 10 km.
Strasbourg
with 60 kilometers.
Basle
in Switzerland with 60 kilometers.
Friebourg
in Germany with 50 kilometers.