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Protected areas

Enjoying the great outdoors also means looking after it. Below you will find all the information you need about these protected areas and how to behave whilst visiting them.

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Alsace is a region rich in protected natural areas. It is home to a number of protected and managed areas:

  • Natura 2000 sites
  • Natural areas of ecological, faunistic and floristic interest
  • Archaeozoological and archaeobotanical sites
  • National Inventory of Geological Heritage
  • Protected species
  • Endangered species
     

Places of interest in the Pays de Barr and the surrounding area:

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES
 

  • Contact metamorphism in the Andlau Valley

https://inpn.mnhn.fr/site/inpg/ALS0019

Locations: Lilsbach, Chemin Adélaïde, Eftermatten, Hasselbach
How to get there: The sites are freely accessible on foot, as motor vehicles are prohibited on the paths. From Andlau town centre, take the D425 towards Hohwald for approximately 6.5 km. Parking is available opposite the Auberge du Lilsbach near the former Forest House to access sites 1 to 3. To access sites 4 and 5, it is recommended that you park near the hamlet of Eftermatten.

  • Champ du Feu

https://inpn.mnhn.fr/site/natura2000/FR4201802

Altitude: Min: 960 m / Max: 1,090 m -> Average: 1,030 m.

REGION: ALSACE DEPARTMENT: Bas-Rhin (100%) MUNICIPALITIES: Bellefosse, Belmont, Hohwald.

  • Saint-Pierre-Bois Quarry: a stratigraphic section of the Dambach two-mica granite in the Permian

https://inpn.mnhn.fr/site/inpg/ALS0006

Localities: Im Taelele, Andelhecken, Kirchberg, Am Blienschweiler Weg
Directions: From the centre of Saint-Pierre-Bois, take the main road (D903) for 470 m, then continue on the D253 (rue de Barr) towards Andlau for approximately 950 m, then turn left onto the farm track leading to the quarry for 300 m, at the Wilerpfad forest house. Helmets and high-visibility vests are compulsory, as are safety boots. Visitors are advised not to get too close to the working faces: risk of falling rocks and rockfalls. Dangerous quarry: fractured working faces in the active areas. The older sections appear fairly stable.

AREA OF NATURAL ECOLOGICAL, FAUNAL AND FLORAL INTEREST

  • Champ du Feu

https://inpn.mnhn.fr/zone/znieff/420007217

  • The forests on the eastern promontories of the Andlau Valley

https://inpn.mnhn.fr/zone/znieff/420030385

  • The hills of the Vosges foothills, from Andlau to Barr

 https://inpn.mnhn.fr/zone/znieff/420030415

  • The Schernetz marshland and woodland areas in Epfig and Dambach-La-Ville

https://inpn.mnhn.fr/zone/znieff/420030431

  • Fronholz

https://inpn.mnhn.fr/espace/protege/FR1502309

  • Champ du Feu

https://inpn.mnhn.fr/espace/protege/FR2300059

 

Sources:
https://inpn.mnhn.fr/collTerr/departement/choix/67
https://www.conservatoire-sites-alsaciens.eu/

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