Home of traditional crafts

Goxwiller is a one-street village, in close contact with the agricultural plain and the wine-growing piedmont. Traditional crafts (joinery, clog making, tanning, bookbinding…) and wine production have made its reputation. You can admire a XIIth century winepress and several public wells including two, which date back to the XVIth century.

Since ancient times, Goxwiller and the neighbouring village Bourgheim were a single legal and religious entity : on the coat of arms, the two linked circles symbolise this ancient union.

The origin of the village is to be found in a "Villa veterana" situated on the old Roman road of the Piedmont. Mentioned a first time in 920, the village was a property that pledged allegiance to several abbeys, including that of Niedermunster, until 1522. Like the Seigniory of Barr of which it was a part, the village was placed under the suzerainty of the City of Strasbourg until the Revolution.

After numerous wars and successive destructions, Goxwiller took advantage of the rise in importance of wine-growing in the XIXth century.

See : Saint John's Church