SITE DES MENHIRS DE L'EUROPE

A veritable open-air museum in Launstroff.
You'd almost think you were in Brittany with all these menhirs: some thirty of them (36 to be precise) line an 8-kilometre loop.
But where do they come from?
In the early 1980s, German sculptor Paul Schneider (1927 ? 2021) from Merzig, Germany, decided to create a sculpture trail on the theme of the border. The Wellingen-Launstroff site, with its several kilometers of no-man's-land that forms the border between France and Germany, was the perfect location.
In 1986, the first international sculpture symposium was held, bringing together five artists: two from Germany, one from France, one from Luxembourg and one from Switzerland.
Since then, 36 sculptures by artists of 17 different nationalities have been erected on both sides of the border, in France and Germany. A testament to culture?s ability to erase borders.
It was also Paul Schneider?s wish that the sculptures should blend into the landscape as naturally as possible: "?nature doesn?t need these sculptures, but the sculptures need nature..."

DATAtourisme France