![Drapeau allemand](../../../../../images/DE.gif)
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A beautiful day and a beautiful stage await us. We visit the Romanesque church in Andlau. A separate page is dedicated to it. (Please note the link "St. Peter and Paul"!) The little towns of Dambach and Châtenois also have their own pages!
![Mittelbergheim](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4277_Mittelbergheim.jpg)
The first village after Barr is called Mittelbergheim. From here, the route goes over a vineyard to Andlau.
![vinyards](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4281_Rebberge.jpg)
It is uniquely beautiful to walk through the vineyards. Slowly we gain height and the view of the Rhine valley widens.
![Silhouette of Andlau](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4282_Andlau.jpg)
On the other side of the vineyard, we can already see the silhouette of Andlau.
![roofs of Andlau](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4287_Andlau.jpg)
Roofs of Andlau
![city gate](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4291_Andlau.jpg)
Through the city gate we come to the church.
![St. Peter and Paul](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4304_StPeter_u_Paul.jpg)
We visited the Romanesque church of St. Peter and Paul.
![Richardis column](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4329_Andlau.jpg)
St. Richardis and her bear are omnipresent here.
![Richardis column](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4332_Andlau.jpg)
Place in Andlau with Richardis Column
![Way in Andlau](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4333_Andlau.jpg)
The Way of St. James leads out of Andlau through such picturesque alleys.
![Andlau](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4338_Andlau.jpg)
Soon the path goes steeply uphill in a forest and at a vineyard there is this view. The church of St. Peter and Paul is already quite small.
![way through the vinyard](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4341_Weinberge.jpg)
Once the hill has been crested, the route is almost flat along this picturesque path.
![cross in the vinyard](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4344_Wegkreuze.jpg)
A beautiful wayside cross in the vineyards
![Bernardville](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4348_Bernardville.jpg)
![way sign](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4353_Wegzeichen.jpg)
After crossing the next hill, you can see Bernardvillé.
One of the many trail signs of the well-marked trail.
![Baumgarten monastery](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4358_Abbey_de_Baumgarten.jpg)
![Jakobus in Baumgarten](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4362_Jakobus_Baumgarten.jpg)
We approach the Baumgarten monastery. In the picture you can see the Nothelferkapelle. It is a former Cistercian monastery and today a convent of Trappist nuns. St James is in the entrance area to the monastery.
![in the monastery](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4365_Kloster.jpg)
Devotional room in the monastery
![inner court Baumgarten monastery](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4368_Baumgarten.jpg)
Inner courtyard of the Baumgarten monastery complex
![at the edge of the forest](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4375.jpg)
The trail continues through a wooded area and vineyards to the next town.
![Nothalten](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4385_Nothalten.jpg)
It's called "Nothalten". The translation of this name means "emergancy stop"
![Nothalten](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4389_Nothalten.jpg)
Nothalten
![cross in the vinyard](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4391_Weg.jpg)
Again and again we come across such beautiful crosses along the path in the vineyards.
![Blienschwiller](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4395_Blienschwiller.jpg)
Blienschwiller
![Blienschwiller](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4399_Blienschwiller.jpg)
Only the two lower Romanesque levels of the 12th century bell tower remain of the church "of the Innocent Saints" in Blienschwiller, which was already mentioned in a document in 1230. The church was unfortunately destroyed by the Armagnacs in 1444. The present church dates from the 18th century.
![Blienschwiller](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4401.jpg)
View back to Blienschwiller
![town gate of Dambach-la-Ville](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4407_Dambach.jpg)
The town gate of Dambach-la-Ville
![path](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4423.jpg)
The way continues over vineyards again and we admire castle ruins.
![Taennelkreuz chapel](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4424_Kapelle.jpg)
We take a break in the Taennelkreuz Chapel (dating from 1906). Time for a few songs.
![Chatenois](../../13Barr-Chatenois/4437_Chatenois.jpg)
We have reached the city limits of Châtenois, our stage destination. The pictures of Châtenois are on a separate page.