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La Petite Venise, or Little Venice, is the romantic finale of old Colmar, a stretch of the Krutenau district where the River Lauch slips quietly between rows of timber-framed houses painted in warm ochre, pink and green. This was never a grand quarter. It was a working neighbourhood of market gardeners, fishmongers and tanners who used the river as a road, poling flat-bottomed boats heaped with cabbages and leeks up to the market by the Quai de la Poissonnerie. Today the barges carry visitors instead, and the view from the Pont Saint-Pierre, with the canal curving away under trailing geraniums, has become the postcard image of Alsace. It is a place to slow down, linger on a bridge, and let the reflections do the talking.
Wissenswertes
- 1865 year — The brick and iron covered market at the edge of the quarter opened in 1865 to sell the produce the Krutenau gardeners floated in by boat.
- 30 minutes — Flat-bottomed boats, the traditional barques that once hauled vegetables, now glide visitors along the Lauch on gentle tours of about half an hour.
- 3 trades — Three old river trades gave the quarter its character, the market gardeners, the fishmongers and the tanners, each with their own stretch of bank.
📍 Rue de Turenne, 68000, Colmar