The tourist business is important to the local economy with more than 120 km of marked paths for walkers in the surrounding forests, other sport and recreational activities advertised including fishing and skiing, and numerous hotels, pensions and restaurants in and around the village.

Visitors to the village will also encounter an unusual range of art works, including 17 sculptures representing animals and philosophical concepts.

At the upper exit to the village a fountain dedicated to the fate of Haïdi Hautval, supported by an inscription in no fewer than eleven languages, recalls a locally famous figure from history.

Towards the end of the Middle Ages, the territory was shared by three co-owners: the bishop of Strasbourg with the lords of the Val de Villé in co-ownership, the lordship of Barr and the abbey of Andlau.

Important personalities from the political or artistic world, such as Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), the actor Benoît Constant Coquelin, known as Coquelin aîné (1841-1909), Marshal Joffre (1852-1931), Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) and Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (1909-2004) made the Hohwald their holiday resort during the summer.