Hohengoeft

With only 560 inhabitants, Hohengoeft covers 343 hectares at the foot of Goeftberg, a hill rising to 397 meters. Its name, meaning "village near the high lookout," already hints at its privileged location, once crossed by the Roman road linking Wasselonne to Hochfelden. Nestled against the hillside, the village overlooks the Lower Vosges, offering an exceptional panorama. Goeftberg is also home to remarkable flora and fauna typical of this natural promontory. The earliest written records of Hohengoeft date back to the 8th century, in an inventory of the assets of the Hanau Abbey. Until the Revolution, the village was owned by the counts of the County of Dabo, who received it as a fief from the Bishop of Strasbourg. The Saint Anthony of Padua church, built in the 19th century, dominates the village. Nearby, an old tithe house, converted into a presbytery in the same century, bears witness to local history. A Way of the Cross, created in the 18th century at the initiative of Father Michel Adam, winds up to the Saint Wendelin chapel and the summit of Goeftberg. Composed of fourteen stations made of Vosges sandstone, it still shows traces of polychromy, revealing that the medallions were once colored.