Dambach-la-Ville – Obernai

Vine growing is an integral part of the Alsatian landscape. There is also a route named after it. This route is the fifth stage of the vineyard walk and connects Dambach-la-Ville to Obernai. There are numerous vantage points, indeed they are almost everywhere outside the villages. The villages themselves are very typical, with pretty half-timbered houses and undeniable charm. The region’s heritage is equally well represented.

This walk is part of a multi-day hike: La traversée des vignes d'Alsace

Details

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 29.25 km
  • ◔
    Average duration: 9h 35 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Very difficult

  • ⚐
    Back to start: No
  • ↗
    Ascent: + 442 m
  • ↘
    Descent: - 442 m

  • ▲
    Highest point: 295 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 183 m
  • ⚐ Country: France
  • ⚐ City: Dambach-la-Ville (67650)
  • ⚑
    Start: N 48.321985° / E 7.435408°
  • ⚑
    End: N 48.461993° / E 7.481865°
  • Accessible from the train station Gare de Barr.
  • ❏
    IGN map(s): Ref. 3716ET, 3716ETR, 3717ET
  • Hour-by-hour weather

Description of the walk

No signposting

The route starts from the Dambach-la-Ville railway station

(S) Turn right towards the level crossing. Then turn left and keep right onto Rue du Collège, heading towards the school. Pass a junction to reach the bend.

(1) Continue left, then left again. Carry on until the third path on the right.

Yellow Disc signposting

(2) Take this path.

No signposting

Then take the second path on the left. Make a sharp 90° turn to reach the Route des Vins.

(3) Turn right, then follow the first track on the right. Cross the stream and continue to the next junction.

Green Ring Signpost

(4) Take the path on the left.

No signposting

When you rejoin the Wine Route, turn right until you reach a square and a fountain.

Red Disc signpost

(5) First turn right then left to join a path running between the properties, then alongside the vineyards. Carry on straight ahead until you reach the road. Keep left until you reach the Wustberg cross.

(6) Take the path to the right of the cross and keep to the right all the way to Nosthalten.

(7) Follow the road to the left. Pass the church and continue along the same path until you reach the bend with a fountain on the left.

(8) Stay on the path to the right of the fountain. Take a left-hand bend.

Yellow Cross markings

Then turn right onto the first track. You will reach a wood.

(9) Cross over to a road.

Yellow Disc markings

(10) Keep right, cross the stream and head straight up the hill. At the road, continue straight on to the viewpoint.
Continue along a wide path to the right of the viewpoint (with your back to it). Take two bends, then keep right before heading straight on to the third junction.

No signposting

(11) Turn left towards the main road.

(12) Stay on the path leading straight ahead, between the B-roads (east). Then keep left on each track until you reach the road again. Cut across the road and go to the end of the path at a place called Trautmann.

(13) Head down to the right along the track to the houses at Eichhoffen. Continue down to the right along Rue du Vignoble. Turn left twice until you reach the church.

Red Disc markings

(14) Turn sharply left towards Andlau. Keep going straight ahead until you reach the church and its cemetery.

(15) Continue to the next junction.

No signposting

Head downhill to the right, then keep immediately to the right. Cross a junction and continue to Andlau.

(16) Keep to the right before going up the next path on the left (Rue des Pélerins).

Red Rectangle Signposting

Follow the path to its end.

Green Saltire signpost

(17) First turn left then right, towards Mittelbergheim, and stay on the path on the right until the first downhill track.

No signposting

(18) Take this track. At the wash house, head almost straight ahead. Then first turn left then right, and left again at the end. Keep going straight ahead until you reach the church.

(19) Follow the path uphill to a four-way fork in the road. Turn right towards the cemetery. Walk past the cemetery until you reach the fork in the road.

Green Saltire

Stay on the path until you reach Barr. Once you reach the first houses, continue straight ahead for three junctions. You’ll arrive at the fourth (traffic lights) at the Avenue des Vosges.

(20) Head down to the right until you reach Chemin du Hasenhof (second junction).

(21) Take this path to the left, then keep left, and turn right towards the Grand’ Rue.

(22) Follow this road to the end. Turn right, continue straight on past a fountain, and keep going straight on until you reach the steps: take these to reach the church.

Red Rectangle Markings

(23) Turn right at the church, then cross a road. Follow an uphill track to the memorial stone dedicated to a founding member of the Club Vosgein.

Yellow Ring Markings

(24) Head down into the forest on the right until you reach the road.

No markings

Follow it to the left until you reach the track.

(25) Follow the track uphill and, at the Fork in the road, continue uphill. Then keep to the right at a 90° angle until you reach the first houses in Heiligenstein.

(26) Continue straight ahead.

Signpost: Red Rectangle with a white cross

Then turn right.

No signposting

Keep left onto Rue du Rott, then right onto Chemin du Moemkalb. At the junction, keep straight ahead until you reach Rue des Châteaux.

Signpost: Red Ring

(27) Head downhill to the right. Pass three paths on the left, and take the fourth one to the A-road.

No signposting

Turn left, pass the town hall and continue to the junction.

(28) Head down to the right along Rue Ehret Wantz. Take the first left, Chemin du Wolfshaus, to the end of the road.

Red Ring signpost

Turn right onto Rue Principale and continue to the bench.

No signposting

(29) With your back to the bench, take the path opposite. Follow it to the end, along a track, at a place called Bückler.

(30) Continue left, then straight on twice until you reach a Fork in the road. Turn left, then right onto a road. Take a bend and continue to a junction.

(31) Leave the road to the left. Keep following the track straight ahead until you reach the stream. Cross it and, when you see the vineyards, turn left towards an industrial estate.

(32) Follow the road on the right and, at the end of it, continue straight on towards the village. Carry on straight ahead until you reach the well on the right. Keep going straight on until you reach the town hall.

Signposting: Discovery Trail

(33) Continue along the street to the left of the town hall. Take the first left, then turn right at Freiberg, until you reach a four-way junction.

No signposting

(34) Head straight ahead to join the main road.

(35) Cross very carefully and continue along the track on the other side. At the crossroads, keep right, then right again at the end of the track to reach the entrance to Obernai.

(36) Turn left onto Route d’Ottrott, passing a ruined church, and arrive at a roundabout.

(37) Take the second exit. Continue straight on until you reach the town hall and the belfry (E).

Waypoints

  1. S : km 0 - alt. 188 m - Gare de Dambach-la-Ville
  2. 1 : km 0.42 - alt. 194 m - Turn
  3. 2 : km 1.29 - alt. 223 m - Path on the right
  4. 3 : km 2.39 - alt. 229 m - Wine Route
  5. 4 : km 3.02 - alt. 222 m - Junction
  6. 5 : km 3.47 - alt. 235 m - Square with fountain
  7. 6 : km 3.89 - alt. 246 m - Wustberg Cross
  8. 7 : km 4.71 - alt. 215 m - Nosthalten
  9. 8 : km 5.29 - alt. 225 m - Fountain and bend
  10. 9 : km 6.09 - alt. 245 m - Wood
  11. 10 : km 6.24 - alt. 234 m - Route
  12. 11 : km 7.42 - alt. 268 m - Junction
  13. 12 : km 8.48 - alt. 242 m - Departmental
  14. 13 : km 9.75 - alt. 228 m - Trautmann
  15. 14 : km 10.64 - alt. 208 m - Church
  16. 15 : km 12.22 - alt. 233 m - Andlau Cemetery
  17. 16 : km 12.76 - alt. 219 m - Andlau (rivière)
  18. 17 : km 13.53 - alt. 244 m - End of Rue des Pélerins
  19. 18 : km 14.12 - alt. 237 m - Trail
  20. 19 : km 15.16 - alt. 228 m - Church
  21. 20 : km 16.68 - alt. 210 m - Avenue des Vosges
  22. 21 : km 17.07 - alt. 206 m - Chemin du Hasenhof
  23. 22 : km 17.43 - alt. 201 m - Grand' Rue
  24. 23 : km 17.91 - alt. 225 m - Barr Church
  25. 24 : km 18.43 - alt. 294 m - Memorial
  26. 25 : km 18.97 - alt. 229 m - Trail
  27. 26 : km 19.73 - alt. 283 m - Heiligenstein
  28. 27 : km 20.17 - alt. 286 m - Rue des Châteaux
  29. 28 : km 20.63 - alt. 272 m - Junction of Rue Ehret and Rue Wantz
  30. 29 : km 21.46 - alt. 284 m - Bench
  31. 30 : km 22.09 - alt. 241 m - Bückler
  32. 31 : km 22.93 - alt. 216 m - Junction
  33. 32 : km 24.3 - alt. 208 m - Industrial estate
  34. 33 : km 25.83 - alt. 224 m - Town Hall
  35. 34 : km 26.79 - alt. 238 m - Four-way junction
  36. 35 : km 27.33 - alt. 211 m - County road
  37. 36 : km 28.15 - alt. 202 m - Entrance to Obernai
  38. 37 : km 28.62 - alt. 198 m - Roundabout
  39. E : km 29.25 - alt. 183 m - Town hall and belfry. Near the - Ehn (rivière)

Notes

Wine merchants/winegrowers encountered along the route:

Dambach-la-Ville: Wolfberger

Blienschwiller: Frey Benoit (4), Vins Entrecœurs, Straub, Wolff Dresch, René Kientz et fils, François Meyer

Nothalten: Jean-Marie and Fabrice Wassler, Victor Herbrecht, René Koch and Son, Gérard Derendinger, Hassenforder, Landmann, Antoine Grau, Domaine Sohler Philippe, Binnert-Bader, Vins Waegell, Saouliak, Paul and Michel Herrbrech

Eichoffen: Jean Louis Kayser

Andlau: Domaine Wach

Mittelbergheim: Domaine Alfred Wantz, Rieffel, Mittmann, Domaine Gilg, Domaine Boeckel, Hirtz Jean and Sons

Barr: Clos Zisser, Fred Schoen et fils, Bestheim, Lorentz-Klipfel, Vincent Stoffler

Heiligenstein: G. Goepp, Domaine Meckert Michel, Hutt, Jean and Hubert Heywang, Charles Boch

Obernai: Robert Blanck

Toilets available in Mittelbergheim (50 cents) and Obernai

E wide range of accommodation options to suit all budgets in Obernai (E).

Worth a visit

-Villages/towns to visit: Dambach-la-Ville (S), Blienschwiller (5), Nothalten between (7) and (8), Itterswiller, Eichoffen (14), Andlau, Mittelbergheim (21), Barr between (22) and (25), Heiligenstein between (27) and (29), Obernai (E)
-Churches: Blienschwiller, Itterswiller, Eichoffen (14), Mittelbergheim (21), Barr (25), Obernai (E).
-Fountains: Blienschwiller (5), Nothalten (7) and (8), Heiligenstein
-Chimney (18)
-Wine museum (21) and other museums in Obernai
-Castle ruins: Barr
-Bench: Heiligenstein (29)
-Well: Bernardswiller

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