Mittelwihr discovery tour

Mittelwihr, a wine-growing village on the Alsace Wine Route includes some twenty propri
recoltants and is one of the "Perles du Vignoble". Mittelwihr is known as the "Midi de l'Alsace" thanks to a microclimate that allows for the presence of numerous almond trees. Every year, Mittelwihr is the place to be.
Every year, these almond trees bloom on the Mandelberg hill (see point B ), where the wines and Grand Cru of the same name flourish.
beautifully.
A fragment of a Roman altar dedicated to Jupiter, currently on display at Colmar's Musée Unterlinden,
was found at Mittelwihr, proving a human presence as early as the first centuries of our era.
In the Middle Ages, various abbeys in Alsace and Lorraine held property in the village. Mittelwihr then became part of the seigneury of Riquewihr, initially a fiefdom of the Counts of Horbourg. From 1324, it passed into the hands of the Counts of Wurtemberg, who held it until the French Revolution.
The Château de Mittelwihr, owned by the Lords of Reflingen from the XIIIth to the XVIth century, would successively belong to several noble families before finally being sold as national property during the Revolution and destroyed in December 1944.
Mittelwihr was bombed and almost completely destroyed during the fighting in the "Poche de Colmar" in December 1944. Only the lower parts of the medieval church tower and a few arches of the 19th century church, as well as a few houses, were spared. All village buildings were rebuilt during the second half of the XXe century.
Alsatian architect Gustave Stosskopf was responsible for Mittelwihr's post-war urban morphology. The Route des Vins is its backbone. He laid out a public square in front of the town hall, adding shops, the fire station and the post office. The dwellings are surprising in their diversity, as Stosskopf defined no standardization model, but an architecture that leads to similarities, not uniformity..