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The Alsace Ecomuseum is one of the most beautiful open-air museums in France. Here, old houses from the Grand East have been brought together and rebuilt. You can learn about the lives of the people centuries ago. While the storks clatter away in competition.

A photogenic place, otherwise it's just a simple bridge.

The Écomusée d’Alsace is an open-air museum near Ungersheim. This is the largest open-air museum in France and is included in the list of Musées de France by the French Ministry of Culture. The museum opened on June 1, 1984 and at the time had around 20 rebuilt village houses. Today, 72 buildings from the 15th to 21st centuries can be admired here, which previously stood elsewhere, had to be demolished there and were rebuilt here. They were thus saved from planned destruction by the sponsoring association. The buildings include a bakery, a pottery and other craftsmen's houses, a school, a stone tower house and several farms and half-timbered houses as well as barns and stables. It is an extremely lively museum that shows the life of people in the village and the countryside in an excellent way: their jobs, their everyday lives, their way of life and their environment. Visitors are immersed in the world of that time. The museum was created from efforts in the 1970s to preserve traditional rural buildings in southern Alsace by restoring buildings threatened with demolition. In 1971, the "Alsatian Half-Timbered Houses" association was founded. Several buildings that could not be preserved at their location were dismantled by the association and, since 1980, rebuilt on land provided by the municipality of Ungersheim (former dry mining wasteland that had been burned by potash salts). The current museum was opened here with around 20 buildings. In addition, the entire area was designed in a very diverse village style. In addition, several tens of thousands of exhibits were used as gifts for a highly interesting and very vivid presentation in and around the houses. A visit with a detailed tour is absolutely worthwhile and highly recommended!!

In 1904, a rich deposit of potash was discovered by Amélie and Albert Zürcher, Joseph Vogt and Jean-Baptiste Grisez. The epic tale of Alsace’s potash mines begins. In recent decades, 11 mining sites have ceased operations one after the other. Thanks to a certain anticipation of the end of this industry and the work of volunteers from the “Groupe Rodolphe” association, the Écomusée d'Alsace manages to save a “tile” that of the Rodolphe mine which was the most important site of exploitation established by the company of Mines of Kali Sainte Thérèse, from 1911. The mine stopped in 1976 and a large part of the installations were able to be preserved. For more than 25 years, the Groupe Rodolphe association, living memory of the place, has maintained, rehabilitated and highlighted this rich heritage to make it the Historic Potash Mining Center. Visiting the tile is a moment of intense emotion. The miners of the Rodolphe Group will make you relive the epic of the Potash Mines of Alsace and share their passion with the testimony of their experiences at the bottom of the mine. During this visit, they will take you on a journey in the footsteps of the potash miner, through reconstructions of production sites, to discover the 2 headframes and 2 extraction machines from 1912 and 1928, perfectly restored and in working order. walk. But you will also see surface installations that allowed ore processing and a complete and unique set of mining machines dating from the 1950s to 2004.

Junction of several cycle paths

Very nice quiet and relaxing place

Bike lane away from the road.

Great journey through time through the "old" Alsace