Local heritage days in Soultzbach les Bains

This village, founded in the 13th century, partially surounded by battlements, is the smallest fortified village in Alsace. You can see typical patterns of alsatian half-timbering on the house. The ancient Hattstatt's and Schauenbourg's castle was built in 1275. The central building (15th century) is occupied since 1903 by the retirement-house Sainte-Anne. In the old ditch a garden was refitted.The Saint-Jean-Baptiste church is outside of the fortifications, and is ornamented by a remarkable pyx (1500) and a very beautiful baroque furniture. the Saint-Catherine chapel, mentionned for the first time in 1620, would have been built after an plague epidemic. At the 18th century, the small city was a trendy hydrotherapeutic-resort, activity from which she preserved interesting witnesses.