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Mulhouse · 68
Built in 1912 to accommodate a surge of students, this innovative primary school featured a concert hall, drawing room, gymnasium, and showers. Converted into a high school in 1921, it is not open to the public.
Discover this placeBattenheim · 68
Battenheim was temporarily liberated for two days on November 20 and 21, 1944, before being definitively freed on February 8 and 9, 1945.
Discover this placeMulhouse · 68
This trompe-l'œil by Christian Geiger shows characters balanced on narrow ledges: a man with an umbrella, a woman sitting with feet dangling, and another at a window watching Avenue du Président Kennedy.
Discover this placeRouffach · 68
This house, remodeled in the early 20th century, features a Renaissance door from 1616 and a 1579 well adorned with a German inscription, reflecting local history. It is located near the former course of the Ohmbach, now covered.
Discover this placeMulhouse · 68
Maxime Descombin, a discreet yet innovative sculptor, left his mark with serial sculptures, drawings, tapestries, and innovative stained glass. His work, both public and little known, explores geometric forms in tension.
Discover this placeMulhouse · 68
Built in 1912 on the site of a former slaughterhouse, this girls' high school of stone and brick, featuring a clock turret, is not open to the public.
Discover this placeMulhouse · 68
This Mulhouse villa, built in 1901 by architect Edmond Guyot, stands out for its unique neo-Moorish style in the city.
Discover this placeRouffach · 68
At the end of a dead-end street stands a Gothic house adorned with a butcher's coat of arms, housing a courtyard community and a beguine confraternity—devout women dedicated to educating young girls and caring for the sick.
Discover this placeRouffach · 68
The Old Grain Hall, built in the 16th century, once hosted grain trade and a boys' school from 1819 to 1960. Its upper floor now houses the Baillage Museum of Rouffach.
Discover this placeRouffach · 68
Built in 1544, this building served as a slaughterhouse until after World War II. Its gable features windows with ogee-shaped carvings and faces a war memorial.
Discover this placeBischwiller · 67
This 17th-century historic monument, recognizable by its half-timbering and oriel window, was built in 1681 for Duvernois, the first pharmacist at the court of Count Palatine Christian II.
Discover this placeRouffach · 68
The local hospital, renamed Maison Saint-Jacques in 2000, continues the legacy of an old hospital first mentioned in 1304. Its current buildings combine an early 20th-century structure with a retirement home added in 1984.
Discover this placeSchiltigheim · 67
Schiltigheim preserves 17th and 18th-century half-timbered houses, including the Auberge du Cheval Blanc and the villa Wenger-Valentin, a former bankers' residence built in 1882 in a historic park.
Discover this placeMulhouse · 68
This historic building in Mulhouse, built in 1564, features murals with tailor's scissors, symbols of the powerful tailors' guild that dominated the city before 1798.
Discover this placeMulhouse · 68
The 16th-century House of the Winemakers' Guild features a facade decorated with murals and a door topped with three pruning hooks, symbols of viticultural work. Once vital to Mulhouse, vineyards dominated the city until the 13th century.
Discover this placeStrasbourg · 67
Located on the border between the communes of Strasbourg and Eckbolsheim, the old toll house was used to collect a tax on goods entering the city.
Discover this placeRouffach · 68
This historic building, made up of two wings of different styles (15th and 16th centuries), housed a college then an agricultural school before being restored for sociocultural activities. Its rear facade reveals defensive elements like gunports.
Discover this placeRouffach · 68
This Renaissance well, dating from 1578, is located on the site of the former noble Knechtlin/Kirtz property at 50 rue Poincaré. Its lintel is decorated with coats of arms.
Discover this placeMorsbronn-les-Bains · 67
This painted cast iron cross, erected in 1870, commemorates O Fabre, a volunteer in the 94th Regiment of the Grand Duke of Saxony, who died in combat on August 6, 1870.
Discover this placeMulhouse · 68
The town hall decorations, painted in 1698 in the Rhenish Renaissance style by Jean Gabriel, depict allegorical figures and Swiss coats of arms. The south facade houses the "Klapperstein," a symbol of punishments for gossip.
Discover this placeMulhouse · 68
The oldest pharmacy in France still in operation, open since 1649, features 17th-century painted ceilings and Charles X period furniture in a late Renaissance house listed since 1464.
Discover this placeRixheim · 68
This square, located near the Commanderie park, is named after the former stables of the Zuber family, rebuilt as a building resembling Swiss chalets. It once housed their vegetable garden and orchard.
Discover this placeStrasbourg · 67
Strasbourg's Post Office, built in 1899 in a neo-Gothic style, asserts the Neustadt as the imperial political center, breaking from the surrounding neo-Renaissance architecture.
Discover this placeColmar · 68
The Haut-Rhin prefecture, established in 1866 in a Louis XIII style building, was damaged during the world wars before being restored. It stands opposite the Champ de Mars park, whose layout evokes the Legion of Honour cross.
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