Circuit pédestre : Weckmann et la Moder

This tour leads you from Roeschwoog to the Moder river. Around Roeschwoog, on the right, you will find a flat landscape, typical of the northern Ried. A landscape of meadows, fields and copses, with a few ponds. The agriculture is mainly cereal, corn and wheat.

After a return to Roeschwoog, your route branches off to the south and offers you a clear view. Above the green line on the horizon, the Black Forest with its highest northern peak, the Hornisgrinde (1,163 m), recognizable by its television tower, comes into view. Then eastward, you pass by the Fort Alsace. Together with the Fort Carré, and further east the Fort Marquisat, now disappeared, they are part of the Fort Louis fortification built by Vauban from 1687.

Another specific and marked out circuit also passes there: "Les Forts au fil de l'eau" (departure in Fort-Louis or in Neuhaeusel). The route follows the banks of the Moder. This river has crossed the whole of northern Alsace to become a forest river with a very rich specific fauna and vegetation and rare species. It is a protected site. At the beginning of the meander, turn left towards Roeschwoog, an old fishing village whose inhabitants once made bricks and tiles for the Fort Louis fortification. It was already occupied at the end of the Bronze Age. The Romans and then the Merovingians followed. In the Middle Ages, hemp was rolled in the surrounding ponds and marshes. Then wars and successive troubles affected its evolution until the middle of the 20th century.

Many 18th century houses remain, including a few half-timbered houses in the rue de la Gare. Today, the commune, located in the center of the Uffried, is committed to the promotion of trilingualism (French/Alsatian/German), following the example of the Alsatian writer, novelist and poet André Weckmann, whose name the inter-communal school proudly bears.

Esch's net scheen unser Ländel? (Isn't our region beautiful?)

Route description: https://ignrando.fr/fr/parcours/83926-pr-8-weckmann-et-la-moder-a-roeschwoog-67