Donnenheim
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Once predominantly agricultural, (vegetables [onions, cabbage], cereals [wheat, maize, barley] and hops are still grown there), Donnenheim has now expanded around the historic centre through the creation of several housing estates that have been built since the 1960s (last built in 2014). The village has a fertile associative environment managed by passionate volunteers, who have the infrastructure to organize events there : The intermunicipal sports and leisure area located near the new school and managed with the municipality of Bilwisheim. On this site there are playgrounds for children, a city stadium, a tennis court and a football field. the village hall in the centre of the old village, which makes it possible to organise small events there but also to make it available to private individuals inside and outside the village. In terms of its heritage, Donnenheim has a magnificent church dedicated to the patron saint Bernard. It has the particularity of having some movable elements from the Chapel of St Mary (which was destroyed in 1792), in particular a magnificent sculpture of the Crucifixion above the entrance porch of the Church; the crucified Christ is surrounded by the Virgin and St John. In the cemetery, Christ on the Cross, whose author is unknown, is made of sandstone and dates from 1789. The bell of the Church comes from the Baumgarten barn, it is dated 1776.
