ADT - Tourisme en Alsace

Husseren-Wesserling

Set on lands that historically hosted an important textile tradition, Wesserling Park retraces the extraordinary industrial adventure of this former royal manufacturer. Innovative, patrimonial and respectful of the environment, the site surprises visitors with its sumptuous gardens (with "Jardin Remarquable" status) and its collection of buildings related to the industry that are unique in France (factories, pattern houses, masters’ houses, grand boiler room, farm etc.).

The park’s textile museum is original, associating the history of the site with contemporary art. Spinning, weaving and screen-printing demonstrations also revive the factory trades from the end of the 18th to the start of the 19th century. The Park and its heritage trail form a pleasant walking area, to be discovered all year round with family and friends. 

• Les Ateliers de l’indiennage (1762-184): spinning, weaving and screen-printing demonstrations every Sunday of the year, during school holidays and daily from mid-June to the start of October
• The Milaine Micoton Trail: for playful discovery for children
• The Heritage Trail: discover a collection of industrial buildings that are the only examples of their kind to be found in France

The Wesserling Gardens

The five Wesserling Gardens feature very different atmospheres, with beautiful, old heritage trees enclosing each space. The site as a whole constitutes the largest garden in Alsace to have "Monument Historique" status.

• The vegetable patch – succulent and full of sweet scents!
• The regular French garden?– geometrical rigour and large spaces
• The English garden – mysterious and romantic
• The Mediterranean terraces – exoticism and colour
• The rural park – calm and peaceful

Festival des jardins métissés
Gardens of the six senses
See, feel, touch, taste, hear and "Wesserling"!

From mid-June to mid-October, the Wesserling Park hosts the surprising Festival des jardins métissés (Festival of Mixed Gardens), one of the most important gardening events in the East of France. Artists are invited to imagine, devise and produce extraordinary and ephemeral gardens, by associating flowers, fruits and vegetables. A surprising vegetable garden with textile motifs and featuring sweet-scented aisles will delight all garden lovers.

Ideal for an outing with family or friends, the gardens are animated during the festival with daily guided visits, activities every Sunday and a discovery trail for children!

Festival Highlights: Activities every Sunday afternoon, guided visits every day (garden and industrial site), "Héridou" discovery trail for children

Garden events
Idées Jardin : 1st weekend in May
Festival des jardins métissés : from mid-June to the start of October, 10:00 am – 6:30 pm
Nocturnes au Jardin : the first 3 weeks of August until 11:00 pm (Fri, Sat, Sun)
Noël au Jardin : in December from 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm (Fri, Sat, Sun + several dates during the school holidays)
Freely accessible the rest of the year

Parc de Wesserling – Écomusée textile
68470 Husseren-Wesserling
Tél : 03 89 38 28 08
Fax : 03 89 82 68 32
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www.parc-wesserling.fr