Rixheim Hills Tour

The departure of this circuit is from the car park of this church. Consecrated in 1786, the origin of the Church of Saint Léger goes back to the 12th century as the two lower levels of the bell tower dating from the Middle Ages testify. On the north side, a Teutonic Order slab dated 1775 testifies to the existence of an ancient burial vault.

Dating from 1861 and replacing the old cemetery located around the church, it houses several graves of historical interest, including the Zuber family plot.

This square, which since 1945 has housed the town's war memorial, is located on the site of the moat of the old Rixheim castle, mentioned in the 14th century.

Former commandery of the Teutonic Order. Built between 1733 and 1745, this building was used after 1789 as a barracks, prison and military hospital, and in 1797 became the Zuber et Cie wallpaper factory. Today it houses the town hall, the wallpaper museum and the factory.

This district, made up of modest farm workers' houses, probably took its name after the Thirty Years' War, when many Swiss came to repopulate Alsace. Former Jewish cemetery Dating from 1798 and containing more than a hundred graves, it is a reminder of the existence of a strong Jewish community in Rixheim in the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, including the ancestors of Captain Dreyfus.

Dating from 1798 and containing more than a hundred graves, it is a reminder of the existence of a strong Jewish community in Rixheim in the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, including the ancestors of Captain Dreyfus.

In the 19th century, two country houses surrounded by a park (Zuber and Naegely, hence its former name, the Naegeleberg, sold to Dollfus) were located here before the birth of this district in the 1970s, the work of the architect François Spoerry. A former ice house is the only remaining evidence of this earlier period.

This is a natural area near the village of Leibersheim, a site that has been inhabited since Gallo-Roman times and disappeared in the 15th or early 16th century. The Basle abbey of Saint Alban owned property here, as did the Commandery of the Teutonic Order of Mulhouse-Rixheim.

Erected in 1870, it was damaged by a bombing in 1944 and restored after the war. The path leading eastwards (Habsheim) leads to a hill covered by a small wood near which there was a semaphore (former Chappe telegraph, late 18th and early 19th century).

This area, which includes some beautiful farm workers' houses, was once called the "Lumpazepfel", the drunkards' corner, because drunken parties were held there (Lumpa = drunkard, Zepfel = the end, the edge of the village).