
The Ill River

Farmer's Museum Place |

Winter vue on Oltingue

Storcks close to the village |
Oltingue (770 inhabitants) is situated in 387 m of height, at the
edge of the Ill river.
The village of Oltingue was mentioned for the first time in a text in
1141. It's former church St-Martin of
Fields (XIVth century) and the beautiful Callinet Organs (1842 ) of the
present church St-Martin are classified historic monuments, it's Peasant
Museum illustrates the rural life of the Sundgau. Redrawing the Alsatian
traditions, the workshops of the clog maker "Sabotier" and the tiled
stove builder "Poêlier" can be visited.
The
Chapel Saint-Brice can be discovered 3 km away of the
village, in a clearing of the municipality's vast forest massif.
You will find the following commodities in
Oltingue : a bakery/pastries shop, a grocery store, a postoffice, a hairdresser, a pizzeria/burger-restaurant, two general practioners
and a camper area. In Lutter (3 km) the restaurant L'Auberge Paysanne
offers a tasty and very refined cuisine.
A drugstore, a dental clinique, a garage, a cash dispenser and a police station "gendarmerie"
are located in Ferrette (10 km).
Our
Guest-house "La maisonnette Coquette"
is the ideal point of departure to visit the whole Alsace, the South of Vosges,
the territoire of Belfort, the Black Forest in Germany or close
Switzerland. Hikes, walks in the forests and bike rides on discovery
paths in the surroundings, Winkel (source of the Ill river), Ferrette
and Leymen (visit of the castle ruins), Lucelle, Burg in
Switzerland, the Alsacian and Swiss Jura, will charm you.
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