Eguisheim

Eguisheim is another of the Alsace's more popular wine villages. When we arrived and camped, it was already pretty warm, so we delayed our little walking tour until the late afternoon.

Helpful map

Wineries of Eguisheim...44 of them

House rules

The chateau, local boy Pope Leon IX, and the chapel built in his
honor

Pretty much presided over the Great Schism, among
his other achievements

Appropriately Romanesque

With an interior to match; recently updated, we guessed

Going to his rest?

Fixer-upper

Parish church; fairly austere; still Romanesque

Relatively few French churches have Divine Illumination Machines
(DIMs) (because of Suger's theology of height and light); but this
one does...and it's free (gratuitee et illimitee)

The storkization of Alsace continues

"But he was going to move his car before the flea market
began, I know he was..."

All over-looked by the high ground no one anymore wants