Goxwiller

Goxwiller (French pronunciation: [ɡɔksvilɛʁ] ⓘ; German: Goxweiler) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.

[3] Goxwiller is effectively a one-street village between flat arable land to one side and southward sloping vineyards to the other.

It has become known for viticulture and for traditional artisanal trades such as carpentry, clog making, leather tanning and book binding.

In recent decades aspects of the village have been sensitively renovated in order to encourage the tourist trade: the eighteenth century former bakery, which had fallen into disrepair, has been acquired by the local commune and is once again able to bake bread and Flammkuchen, albeit only on special occasions.

The early modern period was one of much warring and destruction across Alsace, but the nineteenth century was one of relative tranquility and growing prosperity: Goxwiller was one of several communes to benefit from the growth of viticulture during these years.