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Hôtel du Parc

The hotel’s history is linked to the history of the city and its inhabitants. In 1903, Monsieur Henri Gangloff, alongside architect Louis Schwartz, decided to unify the roofs of the building and install the famous Galerie Gangloff, the library, an antiques shop and a framing workshop. On the second floor, the Braun brothers, illustrious tenants, installed their own photography workshop where they developed photographs of their numerous voyages.

The private apartments were on the third floor, with eight attics made for the 8 children of the family who was living there. Hôtel du Parc opened its doors in front of Mulhouse Theatre and Parc Steinbach, just a few minutes away from the Thirteenth-century fortification wall. It was made up by three adjoining houses and the famous Gangloff Library, dating back to 1904.

The architect Louis Schwartz gave this ensemble a stunning Neoclassical facade, with sculptures and stone of the highest quality that put it on the same level as the most beautiful Parisian buildings of the time.

Since then, the hotel had four floors and was almost 10,000 ft2 in size per floor, thus becoming a regular meeting point.

It became the most exclusive spot in the city and the Mulhouse region, enjoying long years of lavishness and a celebrity clientele, which you can see in the hotel’s guest book.

Hôtel du Parc belonged to the Mulhouse Hotel Society, the majority of which was owned by local industrialists.

Hôtel Salvator The Originals

The Originals Salvator Mulhouse Hotel is located in the city center in a quiet street, close to the TGV train station (900m) and public transport (bus, tramway). You can easily walk downtown, and visit our well-known museums (Cité de l’automobile and Cité du train) as well as our Exhibition Center, and the local University.

Our 49 comfortable rooms are all air-conditioned and sound-proofed, with private bathroom, satellite TV and free WIFI. Two rooms are adapted for people with reduced mobility, and family rooms are available (up to 4 people).

On the fifth floor, you can find a meeting room with a panoramic view, a terrace and a fitness room. Our hotel is 20 minutes away from the Basel-Mulhouse Airport, accessible by taxi or train.

Ingwiller Synagogue

It is to this location, at the foot of the Northern Vosges and on the edge of an agricultural plain, that Ingwiller undoubtedly owes its origin and probably its commercial vocation. Thus, Ingwiller was elevated to the rank of town on 11 May 1345 and was thus able to hold a market and surround itself with ramparts. Until the end of the 19th century, Ingwiller remained a rural and artisanal town of weavers, laundry workers, and brewers.

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Jewish Alsatian Museum

“Artifacts and places recount history better than books.” This sentence welcomes you as you arrive at the Jewish Alsatian Museum, a museum unlike any other. It displays the culture of the Jews of Alsace, evoking day to day life along with their Christian neighbours. As soon as you enter, a Jewish candlestick is lit at the window of a half-timbered house. A narrow-vaulted passage gives access to a “rue des Juifs”. It is along an ascending gallery that one can follow and discover the slow progress “from slavery to freedom” of these Jews, serfs of the Crown until the French Revolution. Elsewhere, a sloping street lined with stores informs the visitor about the social progress of the last century. A turning point, a dark rotunda: the Shoah… The path is lined with mannequins, ceramic models meticulously showing, in three dimensions, scenes of daily life inspired by engravings, costumed dolls, and architectural models. And here, as the rooms go by, these miserable rural people, peddlers or wholesale butchers, living among poor peasants, appear as rich in tradition, in quiet faith, in conviviality, in biblical knowledge, and in hope.

Image credit: Musée judeo alsacien de Bouxwiller © Association des musées d’Alsace

The Jewish Story of Bouxwiller, France

Bouxwiller is a very old town located within the Saverne arrondissement about 34 kilometers (21 mi) northwest of Strasbourg and has been occupied since Roman times. The Jews have been living in Bouxwiller since the early 1300s. During the Protestant Reformation, Prince of Hanau-Lichtenberg had the capital in Bouxwiller, but was very tolerant of the Jews in hopes of becoming an “enlightened spirit.”

The Hanau-Lichtenberg administration allowed the presence of a yeshiva (religious Jewish school) and the beth din (Jewish court) which lasted from the 1760s until the French Revolution. There were also two Jewish cemeteries in the town established in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

A large synagogue was built in Bouxwiller in 1844. It was defaced and damaged during the Second World War and the building now houses the Judeo-Alsatian Museum of Bouxwiller, dedicated to the history of Jews in Alsace. The city has preserved many witnesses to this rich past, which are highlighted by several discovery trails and two museums. The Pays de Hanau Museum and Jewish Alsatian Museum have spectacular displays of artifacts and 3D models that recount the Jewish history and culture of Jews in Bouxwiller.

Reichshoffen Synagoge

This building, dating back to the very end of the Second Republic (1852), is the successor to an ancient schüle” (house of study and prayer in Judeo-Alsatian) of the 18th century which had become too small. This large synagogue has not been used as such since the death of its last cantor in 1967. Its architecture, the work of Albert Haas, is a rare and unique example in Alsace of the transition between the old hidden synagogues of the Ancien Régime (Kingdom of France) and the more ostentatious buildings that became the markers of the emancipation and integration of the Jews during the 19th century.

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B&B La Chambre de Marie

Offering free WiFi, B&B La Chambre de Marie provides a guest room in a typical Alsatian house, located in Bouxwiller among the region’s cycling trails. A continental breakfast including fresh pastries and deli meats is served daily.

Decorated with antiques and vintage toys, the guest room here features a seating area and a flat-screen TV. With a garden view, the room also has a terrace and a private bathroom, complete with a hairdryer.

Breakfast is served in the kitchen at this B&B. It can be taken on the terrace overlooking the garden during sunny weather. Barbecue facilities are provided for al fresco dining during summer. The cabaret Royal Palace of Kirrwiller is located at 3.5 km from the property

Popular activities in this region include hiking in the Northern Vosges Regional Park, which is 20 km away. Free private parking is possible on site and Strasbourg is 35 minutes away by car. – Booking.com

La Cour du Tonnelier

Our Hotel is located in the Pays de Hanau, on the outskirts of the Northern Vosges. Village with multiple assets, industry, commerce and tourism water streets. Proud of our museums, we will also offer you other attractions, the most surprising being the Royal Palace! The hotel is open from Monday to Friday, 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The bar (bar symbol) is a unit of pressure measurement equivalent to 100,000 pascals. The bar has the advantage of being close to the atmosphere (average atmospheric pressure at the surface of the sea).

Le Festin des Sultans

Restaurant with a large capacity of reception, on the menu different Turkish specialties.
With a seminar room, parties, weddings, private or themed evenings (karaoke, etc …)

Au Charme du Passé

Your Tea Room and Antique Shop specializing in Alsatian folk art , located in Bouxwiller, in the Bas-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region. For 10 years, your Tea Room and Antique Shop “Au Charme du Passé” has been welcoming you for a gourmet and old-fashioned moment. Specializing in Alsatian folk art , we offer you an estimate of your goods such as pottery, crockery, textiles, old fabrics, silverware, military curiosity, furniture, but also old jewelry.

Our Tea Room awaits you, in order to share moments of pleasure around a tea, a cappuccino or a chocolate, accompanied by delicate homemade pastries and cakes, and for the most part from Alsatian recipes.

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