page_title: Rouffach
section_title: Sightseeing
hierarchical_section_title: Rouffach / Sightseeing
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Mariä-Himmelfahrt-Kirche
context_page_description: Rouffach is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
  Rouffach lies along the Alsatian wine route.
  Its vineyards produce one of the finest Alsatian wines: the Grand Cru Vorbourg.
context_section_description: Rouffach is a station on the Romanesque Route of Alsace (Route Romane d'Alsace).
  The Notre-Dame de l’Assomption Church of yellow sandstone was built in the Romanesque and Gothic styles. The transept is from the second half of the 11th century, the Gothic nave is from the 12th and 13th centuries, with Romanesque side portals. Construction on the building continued until 1508; the double steeple facade was never completed. The northern steeple is 56 m high, the southern steeple is only 42 m high. The tip of the crossing steeple reaches a height of 68 m. The building suffered severe damage during the French Revolution and appears relatively plain today. The voluminous structure of the church and the existence of several medieval styles of construction are all the more apparent to the observer, though. The rose window in the facade (14th century) is one of the most ambitiously designed in Alsace.
  The church (monastery) of the Franciscans was built at the end of the 15th century.
  Numerous buildings from the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance (old city hall, old granary) still give the city a medieval character.
  The Witch Tower, built in the 13th to the 15th centuries, served as a prison.
  The castle of Isenbourg, residence of King Dagobert II and his son Sigbert, and later the Strasbourg bishop also, no longer remains. Today, a luxury hotel is housed in a reconstruction from the 19th century.
  The Établissement public local d’enseignement agricole de Rouffach is a secondary school for technology, agriculture and wine growing.
caption: South side of Notre Dame
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