| KAYSERSBERG, still further southwest, boasts a fortified bridge and a handsome sixteenth-century wooden altarpiece in the main church. But the town's principal renown is as the birthplace of Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer, who spent most of his extremely active, and not always peaceful, life at the leprosy hospital he founded at Lambaréné in French Equatorial Africa, now Gabon. During World War I he was interned by the French authorities as an "enemy alien", but nowadays he's suitably honoured with the Centre Culturel Albert Schweitzer, 126 rue du Général-de-Gaulle (Easter & May–Oct daily 9am–noon & 2–6pm; €0.80). Two kilometres from Kaysersberg in the village of KIENTZHEIM, the very comfortable Hostellerie de l'Abbaye d'Alspach, 2–4 rue Foch (tel 03.89.47.16.00, fax 03.89.78.29.73; €55–70; closed Jan 9–March 10), in a former abbey, makes a good base for visiting Colmar, 10km away. Try some of the home-made wine. Alternate spellings:: kayzerberg, kayserbergen
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