Musée Albert Schweitzer

Alsace


The house where the musicologist, medical doctor and 1952 Nobel Peace Prize–winner Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) was born is now a museum, with exhibits on the good doctor’s life in Alsace and Gabon.


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1. Église Ste Croix

0.24 MILES

The red-sandstone Église Ste Croix has an altar with 18 painted haut-relief panels of the Passion and the Resurrection. Out front, a Renaissance fountain…

2. Dolder

2.49 MILES

This late-13th-century stone and half-timbered gate, topped by a 25m bell tower, is worth a look for its panoramic views and small local-history museum.

3. Tour des Voleurs

2.53 MILES

Rue des Juifs (site of the former Jewish quarter) leads down the hill to this medieval stone tower. Inside is a gruesome torture chamber with English…

4. Maison de Hansi

2.56 MILES

Peer into the imagination of celebrated Colmar-born illustrator Jean-Jacques Waltz (1873–1951), aka Hansi, whose idealised images of Alsace are known…

5. NaturOparC

3.94 MILES

Set amid the vines, this delightful centre is home base for 200 free-flying storks; visit in spring and you're guaranteed to see hatchlings. Cormorants,…

6. Jardins des Papillons

3.99 MILES

Stroll among exotic free-flying butterflies at these pretty gardens, situated around 500m east of Hunawihr. A walk among the wildflowers here reveals not…

7. Hôtel de Ville

4.65 MILES

Standing proud above the centre of Ribeauvillé, across from 64 Grand’Rue, this town hall is fronted by a Renaissance fountain.

8. Vieille Ville

4.7 MILES

Along the main street that threads through the old town, keep an eye out for the 17th-century Pfifferhüs, which once housed the town’s fife-playing…

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