The Landscape

The Valley of Munster is the most characteristic of the Vosgian valleys, with high stubble fields, large meadows on the ridge, pine and beech grove on the sides, and glacial cirques with lakes and peat bogs. Little by little, the valley takes shape and opens up to woods of beeches and oaks, and vast prairies punctuated with fruit trees. It finally reaches the Alsatian vineyard. 

Among the emblematic species of the Valley of Munter, you have the lynx, the perigrine falcon, or the chamois, and of course the deer. Some rare capercaillie and black grouse still live in the Vosgian ridge. Some white storks have their habitat in and about Munster too.

 An exceptional and fragile flora is developping in our mountains : the martagon lily ans the carnation in the glacial cirques, the Vosgian pansy, the great gentian and the white pulsatilla in the stubble fields, foxglove and large leaves campanula in the woods.

 Surprising heritage, the peat bogs of the Tanet and Frankenthal nature reserves provide a habitat for carnivorous plants like Drosera; fragile, you must not leave the tracks to see them.