Discovering the trades of yesteryear

Name: Discovering the trades of yesteryear
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Commune de Saasenheim

Go back in time and discover the trades of our forefathers.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free. Free entrance.

©Commune de Saasenheim

Go back in time and discover the trades of our forefathers.

The Culture and Heritage Commission invites you to discover the trades practised in Saasenheim in the 1900s, by walking through the streets of the village.
Among other things, an exhibition recreating an old class in the school yard and an exhibition in a farm, which highlights many tools and machines used at the time.
On Sundays only, a workshop of boiler of vintage in service will be to discover in the orchard school of the village.

About the location

Commune de Saasenheim

Rue principale, 67390 Saasenheim

Bas-Rhin
Grand Est

The first occupation of Saasenheim dates back to the Romans (remains of a Roman villa at the place called Linkirchlein in the enclave).
In the Middle Ages, the village belonged to the Barons of Schoenau, vassals of the Counts of Rappolstein (Ribeauvillé) Originally living in a wooden castle whose motte castrale remains in Schoenau, They settled in a hard castle in the centre of Saasenheim until the French Revolution.
The village has several tourist attractions: The location of the disappeared village of Linkenheim in the enclave, with a stele recalling the successive occupations of this site, the water resurgence in the center of the village (Schwamm) with an eco-educational space arranged around, the Napoleonic Quarter with the “Wasserhiesele” (Water House) No. 3 and No. 9 Haegel Street, the old farms characteristic of the Ried plain, with the red sandstone entrance posts specific to the Ried. The fence is also very special to this region. It was made with pebbles that the Rhine depos