JEBSHEIM (68320)

- 1050 inhabitants -  mostly a farming village

- sand-stone  porches

Saint-Martin church has 12th century roman foundations (modified) roman  clock-tower

Lords of Berckheim's tomb-stones dating from 14th  to 16th century .

SURROUNDINGS

 
« Alsace owns 3 major treasures: The Strasbourg cathedral, the Issenheim Retable (altar piece) in Colmar and the "bibliothèque humaniste" (Humanist library) in Sélestat »  F. RAPP.

To be discovered within 15 to 20 km. : From culture to nature.

History and architectural heritage.

 

  
The famous medieval Haut-Koenigsbourg 15th century castle

The medieval ruins of the Ribeauvillé castles.

Neuf-Brisach with its Vauban fortifications.

The Ecomusée (Eco-museum) (www.ecomusee-alsace.com) at Ungersheim (25 km): a life-size hisnory of Alsace.
Mulhouse (50 km) : automobile museum (Schlumpf collection), Musée de l'impression sur étoffe (cloth printing museum). Musée du chemin de fer (railway museum)

Colmar city: The Unterlinden Museum, The Bartholdi Museum, The quartier des Tanneurs (tanners),  the Petite Venise,  Ancienne Douane (old customs house).

Sélestat with its Bibliothèque Humaniste (Humanist library)

Inherited traditions
Time-defying skills at Muttersholtz (25 km)


 - The weaver and kelsch-weaving
 - "le calfeutrier" (punt-maker)
- Weather cock maker.

Vines and wine-growers:  
The Route des Vins (wineroad) (15 km) winding past typical and picturesque villages: Ribeauvillé, Hunawihr, Riquewihr, Kaysersberg, Eguisheim.

Gastronomy out of the commun

Let yourself be tempted by our traditional, regional cuisine and its delicious dises:

- Kugelopf  (risen pastry with raisins, baked in an eartheware mould)
- Baekeoffe : (beef, pork and mutton, with potatoes, onions and leek baked in white wine in an earthenware dish),
- Choucroute (fermented cabbage cooked with smoked pork and saussages)
- Tartes flambées (very thin bread pastry with onion, bacon and cream on top, baked on an open fire),
- Coq au Riesling (cokked chicken cooked in white wine and served with a very savoury sauce).

Nature and its heritage

The "Ried"  a many-sided coutryside!
The word "Ried" stems from the alemanic word "rieth* meaning "reed, rush", and further, ""liable to flooding areas,. The grand Ried de l'Ill, (the large "Ried" of the river Ill), between Sélestat and the  Rhine, is the largest in Alsace. Little known by tourists, it is charcterised by a dense network of ground water rivers, by alternative grass fields,  reed and small oak and ash-tree woods. The winter floods, characteristic in the Ried, present an amazing sight. The faun and flora are rich and well-preserved.

 

 

LEASURETIME ACTIVITIES :

 

- Hiking: marked routes by the Club Vosgien (www.club-vosgien.com).

- Cycling: many marked routes. 
 

Discovering the rivers

- Fishing

- Guided tour on a rowing-boat to discover both history and nature on the river Ill and its branches. (www.BATELIER-RIED.com)

- Canoe rentals for an outing on the ground-water rivers and discovery of the rich faun and flora. (http://alsacecanoes.free.fr)

 

 

- The "Montagne des Singes" (Natural park with monkeys)

- And the "Volerie des Aigles" (Natural park with eagles) at Kintzheim.