Grand Est, France · Europe
Ensisheim works well as a base: 10 minutes from Ruelisheim, 33km from Route des Vins d'Alsace.
Ensisheim is in Grand Est, France, with about 6,900 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Ruelisheim, about 5 km away.
Ensisheim (French pronunciation: [ɛnsisaim] ; in Alsatian Ansa (Alemannic German pronunciation: [ˈansa])) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It is also the birthplace of the composer Léon Boëllmann. The Germanic origins of the village's name reflect the area's history.
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the earliest-known clear examples for the practice of trepanation was identified from a Neolithic burial site near the town. Researchers from Freiburg University reported in 1997 an analysis of the well-preserved skeletal remains of an approximately 50-year-old man, whose cranium showed clear evidence of two trepanation procedures. One had fully healed and the other partially so, indicating the subject had survived the operations. The remains were dated to between 5100 and 4900 BC.
On 7 November 1492, a 127 kilogram meteorite fell there, and since then it has attracted many meteorite enthusiasts. It was described in detail by the contemporary poet Sebastian Brant. The meteorite can still be seen in the town's museum, the Musée de la Régence.
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Within an hour or so of Ensisheim: Cité de l'Automobile - Musée National (Collection Schlumpf) (12 km), Hartmannswillerkopf (14 km), Grand Ballon (19 km), Eguisheim (20 km).
The nearest famous roads are Route des Vins d'Alsace, Alsace Wine Route and Route des Crêtes (Vosges).
Ensisheim is in Grand Est, France, about 5 km from Ruelisheim.
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museum
The former Schlumpf brothers' secret collection in Mulhouse, the largest car museum in the world, with over 100 Bugattis including two Royales, hidden from the public until a factory occupation revealed it in 1977.
12 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
A WWI mountain battlefield of trenches and a vast crypt overlooking the Alsace plain.
14 km · about 25 min drive
scenic viewpoint
The highest summit of the Vosges at 1424 m, crowning the Route des Crêtes with all-round Alsace views.
19 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
A concentric wine village of cobbled lanes spiralling around its castle, voted favourite village of France.
20 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
A fairy-tale Alsatian town with brilliantly colored half-timbered houses along the canals of its 'Little Venice' quarter.
24 km · about 25 min drive
cafe
Village bakery in Niedermorschwihr where Christine Ferber, the 'jam fairy' revered by top pastry chefs worldwide, hand-cooks over 200,000 jars a year in copper pots; gourmets detour off the Wine Route for her kougelhopf and mirabelle preserves.
27 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Half-timbered wine village on the Alsace Wine Route, voted France's favourite village in 2017, with a fortified medieval bridge over the Weiss and a ruined imperial castle above the vines.
31 km · about 35 min drive
famous road
A 170 km wine road threading flower-decked villages and vine-clad hills below the Vosges mountains.
33 km · about 40 min drive
April to October
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