Small quiet village on the hillside Alsace, Hesse has kept its charm and authenticity, preserved the passing of time.

Over time, history has filed traces in the city: outside its current very well organized port, the village has an old mill, the Gallo-Roman ruins (tiles, fragments of statues ...) and those of the eleventh century Benedictine abbey historic monument since 1874, and the chapel is now the village church.

Near Hesse, St. Louis Arzviller on the canal from the Marne to the Rhine aboard your boat without a license, live the experience of great inclined plane boat lift true. Commissioned in 1969, he made ​​it possible to replace the many locks, the crossing was laborious. Construction of transversal type is unique in Europe.