La Petite Pierre – La Petite-Pierre loop from Phalsbourg

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La Petite Pierre – La Petite-Pierre loop from Phalsbourg

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La Petite Pierre – La Petite-Pierre loop from Phalsbourg

02:48

55.1km

760m

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Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 26, 2026

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La Petite Pierre

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La Petite Pierre is a picturesque village in the Alsace region of north-eastern France. It offers scenic beauty, historic charm, and is surrounded by forests, making it a popular destination.

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At the foot of the Northern Vosges lies the pleasant little town of La Petite-Pierre. From there, there is an extensive view of the forested mountains. This colorful town is very charming with its half-timbered houses, but it is small. It is said to have just over 600 inhabitants. There are around ten restaurants there. The Hôtel des Vosges deserves a special mention: it offers a breathtaking view of the wooded valley and the Lützelstein castle.

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Neuwiller-lès-Saverne Village Center

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The former abbey church of St. Peter and Paul, founded around 720, belonged to one of the oldest monasteries on the Upper Rhine. In its early years, this was led by Saint Pirminius, among others. The church is one of the most artistically valuable and stylistically diverse in Alsace. It has a Carolingian crypt (8th century), Romanesque chapels (11th century), a choir and a transept in the transitional style to Gothic (late 12th century), a purely Gothic nave (13th century) and a classicist façade with a tower (1768). The remains of the monastery building (chapter house, one wing of the cloister) are of Gothic style (13th century). The furnishings are very rich (medieval gravestones and the Adelphus carpets from around 1470 with depictions of the life and miraculous work of St. Adelphus of Metz in the chapels; baptismal font, pulpit, Adelphus shrine, organ, Holy Sepulchre in the nave). The portals and rose windows are also remarkably designed and decorated. Archaeological remains of other buildings of the monastery complex can be seen to the north of the church.

The now Protestant church of St. Adelphus was built between 1200 and 1225 in the transitional style from Romanesque to Gothic. It impresses with its powerful west facade and its simple interior. The choir of the church, which until then contained the reliquary and the Adelphus carpets depicting the life of St. Adelphus of Metz, was demolished in the 19th century and replaced by a flat wall.

The Herrenstein Castle (ruin) was built at the beginning of the 13th century by the Counts of Dagsburg. In the 16th century it was converted into a fortress by the Alsatian military architect Daniel Specklin.

Former synagogue, built in 1875, and Jewish cemetery, established in 1877

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Saint Adelphe Church — Neuwiller-lès-Saverne

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Collegiate until the 16th century, currently a Protestant church, it was built by the Benedictine abbey, outside the monastic enclosure, to accommodate the relics of Saint-Adelphe and thus acquire the dual vocation of parish church and church of pilgrimage. This late Romanesque-style building, built for the most part at the start of the 13th century, was deprived of its chancel in the 19th century. The church is open every day from April 1 to October 31 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. in summer and until 5 p.m. in winter

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