Arzviller: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

The Saint-Louis-Arzviller inclined plane is a crosswise boat lift and has been awarded the French designation “Remarkable Contemporary Architecture”. In the vicinity of Arzviller, it offers boat trips with a gain in altitude of nearly 45 m in a 900-ton boat lift.

Those choosing Arzviller as a travel destination may wish to rent a holiday apartment.

Culture and History

In the vicinity of Arzviller stands the Château du Haut-Barr, a castle. The Château d’Ochsenstein is a castle ruin there, while the Château des Rohan is a palace. The Couvent Saint-Ulrich, a historic site, is also located nearby.

Landscape

Nusskopf, Schweizerberg, Seebfels and Langhardtkopf are mountains in the vicinity of Arzviller.

The Vallée des Éclusiers has been closed to navigation since 1969 and is now developed as a greenway for walkers, cyclists, anglers, climbers and nature enthusiasts. It preserves former lock keeper’s houses and an old, partially abandoned canal whose bed is overgrown with aquatic plants.

Waterways

EuroVelo 5 follows the canal corridor to Arzviller, passes the abandoned flight of locks and then continues to the boat lift. The Arzviller–Henridorff flight of locks was built in 1853 so that the Canal de la Marne au Rhin could cross the Vosges watershed; it comprised 17 locks over 3.8 km and overcame an elevation difference of 44.55 m.

In the vicinity of Arzviller, the Musée de la batellerie is housed in a 39 m-long barge converted into a dry dock. It displays the accommodation of an inland waterway boatman, historic navigation tools and machinery, as well as archival photographs.

The Souterrain d’Arzviller has two separate galleries: one for the canal and one for the railway. At 2,307 m long, it is the second tunnel on the route between Niderviller and Lutzelbourg.

For the main travel overview: Moselle.

More Destinations

More places within the same destination:

Rahling, Racrange, Plappeville, Zetting, Bourgaltroff, Ennery, Avricourt, Maizières-Les-Vic.