Walking tour: Weckmann and Moder

This tour takes you from Roeschwoog to Moder. Around Roeschwoog, starting on your right, you will find a flat landscape, typical of the North Ried. A landscape of meadows, fields and groves, with some ponds and agriculture is mainly cereal, corn and wheat. After a return to Roeschwoog, your route turns south and offers you an unobstructed view. Above the green line, on the horizon, stands the Black Forest and its highest northern peak, the Hornisgrinde (1,163 m), recognizable by its television tower. Then to the east, you pass near Fort Alsace. With the Fort Carré, and further east the Fort Marquisat, now disappeared, they are part of the Fort Louis fortification built by Vauban from 1687 onwards. Another specific and signposted circuit also passes through it: "Les Forts au fil de l'eau" (departure from Fort-Louis or Neuhaeusel). The route follows the banks of the Moder River. This river has crossed all of northern Alsace to become, here, a forest river with a very rich specific fauna and vegetation and rare species. It is a protected site. At the beginning of the meander, turn left towards Roeschwoog, an old fishing village whose inhabitants had once made bricks and tiles for the Fort Louis fortification. He was already busy at the end of the Bronze Age. The Romans then the Merovingians followed. In the Middle Ages, hemp was rusted in the surrounding ponds and marshes. Then wars and successive unrest affected its evolution until the middle of the 20th century. Many 18th century houses remain, including a few half-timbered houses in rue de la Gare. Today, the municipality, located in the centre of Uffried, is committed to promoting trilingualism (French/German/alsacien), like the Alsatian writer, novelist and poet André Weckmann, whose intermunicipal school is proudly named after him. Esch's net scheen unser Ländel? (Isn't our region beautiful?) Route description: https://ignrando.fr/fr/parcours/83926-pr-8-weckmann-et-la-moder-a-roeschwoog-67