Visit to the Gingerbread and alsatian folk art Museum
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It is impossible to drive through Gertwiller without being attracted by a house reminiscent of Hansel and Gretel's fairy tale and decorated with gingerbread! Welcome to Lips, a traditional gingerbread maker. A treat for the taste buds and a real house like in the fairy tales! Discover the history and secrets of gingerbread, the Alsatian delicacy!
Enter and discover an extraordinary museum referring to gingerbread and the rural life of the past. Michel Habsiger, a passionate collector, exhibits some 10,000 objects in an area of more than 350m²: old moulds, pottery, tools of the trades of yesteryear...
In this house, gingerbread has been prepared by hand for two centuries according to jealously guarded recipes.