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

Common of the Low-Rhine
Heiligenstein, commune of the Canton of Barr

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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