Circuit du Quatelbach, à Baldersheim et Battenheim

At the corner of Rue Principale and Rue du Moulin

The church was built around 1780 in Baroque style. It houses a wooden statue of Saint Wendelin dating from 1737.

At no. 19 rue Principale is an old farmhouse with rich and original half-timbering and a covered gallery at the back (Laube in German). The large size of the building is unusual in the Ill plain.

The Quatelbach is a man-made river which is derived from the Ill at the exit of Mulhouse (at the level of the present-day Nouveau Bassin). It was built around the year 1100 to supply water to the villages and mills of Modenheim, Sausheim, Baldersheim, Battenheim and Adolsheim before joining the Ill again at Ensisheim. There, it was extended in 1699 by the Vauban canal which brought water to the fortifications of Neuf Brisach. The name Quatelbach probably comes from Catherine of Burgundy (Katel in German), wife of the Duke of Austria (Habsburg). It was she who improved the river in 1401.

At the place called "Steinig", this gate, which dates from 1769, was used to regulate a network of irrigation ditches in Battenheim

Battenheim was provisionally liberated for 2 days on 20-21 November 1944, then definitively on 8-9 February 1945.

This old mill (called Stackler mill), built in the 18th century on the Quatelbach, was in operation until about 1970 and was recently converted into housing. In front of the mill, the Quatelbach was once used for bathing horses.

This church has a bell tower dating from 1508 and a stork's nest. Next to it, the former Hotel-Restaurant de l'Ancienne Poste (dating from 1762) was once an important post office on the Basel-Strasbourg road.

These houses are also called "day labourer" houses (farm workers employed on a daily basis). No. 45 rue du Moulin dates from 1792.

It supplies the communes of Baldersheim, Battenheim and Ruelisheim.

This former 18th century mill, powered by water from the Quatelbach, ceased to operate around 1970.