Walking tour: a story of style

This looped hiking trail takes you from Roppenheim to Neuhaeusel through a flat landscape, typical of the North Ried, marked by the predominance of cereal cultivation.

A few metres below your steps, Europe's largest groundwater table slowly flows towards the Rhine. On the way there, on a clear day, you will see the Black Forest in the distance and its highest northern peak: the Hornisgrinde (1163 m), easily visible on its television tower. On the way back, the last foothills of the Northern Vosges emerge on the horizon.

Roppenheim and its surroundings were for a long time owned by the lords of Fleckenstein who had a castle and a hunting lodge. Traces remain of the church of Saint Michel, its presbytery and its half-timbered tithe barn. Surrounded by the Rhine forest, the village of Neuhaeusel developed in the second half of the 17th century, during the construction of the Fort-Louis fortification by Vauban, for which the inhabitants made bricks and tiles. Fishing, inland navigation and agriculture then took over until the middle of the 20th century. Traditional peasant houses still exist there.

And if you like contrasts, the route passes not far from the "The Style Outlets" Brand Centre where you can, once again, shop at leisure in its brand stores.

Route description: ignrando.fr/fr/parcours/45434-pr9-une-histoire-de-style-a-67-roppenheim