Heiligenberg

Heiligenberg is a common French, located in the department of the the Low-Rhine and the area Alsace. Its name means Mont of the Saints .

Geography

Village located at the entry of the valley of the Beetle. It is one of the rare villages of Alsace which is not crossed by a secondary road; indeed, it is built on a hill which dominates the valley and with the variation of the road ways downwards.

Variation: Heiligenberg-valley, at the edge of the Beetle and along old the Trunk road 420.

History

Administration

Twinning

Demography

Places and monuments

  • neo-gothic church Saint-Vincent with a Stiehr-Mockers organ. The interior of the church was restored of 1993 to 1997.
containing a pneumatic organ Stiehr Mockers of 1869 restored in 2007 by the organ builder Dietmar Schömer
  • cave of Doors in a natural rock cavity located in the western rise towards the village
  • icöne of Florent Saint restored in 2007 on the driving forest path towards the place of pilgrimage of Niederhaslach

Personalities related to the commune

See too

External bonds

  • Heiligenberg on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Heiligenberg on the site of INSEE
  • Localization of Heiligenberg on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Heiligenberg on Mapquest

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