Anny and Jean-Yves' Cottage

This fully renovated detached house with typical half-timbering is located in the village of Forstheim, 40 km north of Strasbourg. It is ideally situated to discover northern Alsace and its treasures, close to the Northern Vosges Regional Nature Park.

From Forstheim, you can easily reach many tourist, cultural, and natural sites in the region.

Hiking enthusiasts will appreciate the numerous trails marked by the Club Vosgien, suitable for family walks as well as more challenging hikes. The owners provide routes on IGN map backgrounds, compatible with GPS apps like IGNrando or Visorando, as well as 1:25,000 scale IGN maps. Nearby, there are varied opportunities for discovery: gourmet restaurants, Christmas markets, spa treatments in Morsbronn-les-Bains and Niederbronn-les-Bains, and the Didiland amusement park just 3 km away. Local museums such as the Lalique Crystal Factory, the Iron Museum, and the Oil Museum, along with the August 6, 1870 battlefields and their monuments, offer a journey through history. The potters' villages of Soufflenheim and Betschdorf, the underground works of the Maginot Line, the wine cellars of Cleebourg, and the famous Kirwiller Cabaret complete the offer. Alsatian landscapes also reveal themselves through villages with half-timbered houses like Hunspach, voted Favorite Village of the French in 2020, or Seebach. Finally, the proximity to the German border allows excursions into the Black Forest or Baden-Baden.