Grand Cru : [ Gloeckelberg ]
History
Neolithic site occupied at the Roman time.
" Fulrado vilare " or " farm of Fulrade "" of Saint-Denis is quoted for the first time in 774.
It is only when Fulrade, abbot of Saint Denis deposited there relics of " Saint Hippolyte " that the village took its current name at the end of the 8th century.
Saint Hippolyte passed to the Dukes of Lorraine in the 13th century, and was fortified before 1316.
It was then that the village was provided with the title of city.
It remained an enclace of Lorraine of the ground of Alsace until the Revolution.
Sightseeing
Lucky finds of Neolithic time. Brass axe of the " Chalcolithic era ". Roman coins and milestone.
Vestiges of the surrounding wall with round towers.
Half-timbered houses of the 16th and 17th centuries.
The former castle of the Dukes of Lorraine became Marist's school, quoted in 1515, destroyed during the Thirty Years War and reconstructed in 1718.
Beautiful fountain of Renaissance style.
The church of the 14th and 15th centuries, with its bell tower of 1822, its arched choir of rib vaults, the woodworks and a reliquary dating the 18th century.
The chapel of the Holy Cross built 1955.
Some martyries and roadside crosses, among which a " Cross of the plague " of 1628 in the direction of Orschwiller.
Miscellaneous Informations
Altitude 250 m. 1060 inhabitants. Flower decked village * 2003.
At the foot of the " Haut-Koenigsbourg ", in the massif of the Vosges mountains.
Forest.
Former sandstone and granite quarries.
Former coal- and silvermines.
Uranium deposits.
Vineyard: Route des Vins d'Alsace, Grands Crus wines " Gloeckelberg ".
Feed, cereal, orchards.
Breeding cattle.
Folk evening and Beer Festival fisrt week-end of July.
Boar on the spit on July 13th, from 19:00 hours.
Local fair the first 2 Saturdays and Sundays of July.
Patron's holiday on August 13th.
Festival of the new wine at the end of September.
Fishing, hunting.
Music society.
Club Vosgien.
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