
SELF DRIVE RIVER BOAT RENTALS FROM Lutzelbourg
This beautiful little village you will have the opportunity to observe the crystalline craftsman Serge Würm to his works.
The locks are automatic on the Marne-Rhine Canal and the Rhone-Rhine Canal. They are closed on some bank holidays. Locks are manual on the Canal de la Sarre.
The Canal de la Marne requires repair work east of Saverne: navigation is therefore interrupted at this level from March 2025 until the end of May 2025.
Sector concerned: Canal de la Marne au Rhin, East branch (on reach 34) between pk 271.016 (Lock 33 at Monswiller) and pk 272.221 (Lock 34 at Steinbourg).
As a result, there is no one-way navigation in Alsace (Boofzheim-Hesse or Languimberg-Waltenheim) from March to the end of May 2025, and no navigation to Strasbourg until the end of May 2025.
Navigation on this region’s waterways is quite easy and perfectly suitable for a first canal cruise experience.
You can moor wherever you want along the canals, even in the heart of the countryside.
- Car: motorway A4 - E25 exit 44 Phalsbourg, then N4 and D38 to Lutzelbourg (5 km)
- Train: Lutzelbourg station (1 km), Saverne TGV station (11 km)
- Plane: Strasbourg Entzheim airport (77 km)
- Bakery-tea room, open 7h-19h from Tuesday to Friday, 7h-17h Saturday and 7h-11h45 Sunday
- Tobacco-newspaper-post every day 6:45 to 6:30, 6:45 to 12 am Sunday with small grocery store Pharmacy, bank branch
- in Phalsbourg (4 km) every Friday morning
- in Saverne (10 km) every Thursday morning
- Fishing map for sale at Tabac du Canal in Lutzelbourg. Pike, pikeperch, carp, catfish.
- The locks of the Marne-Rhine Canal are automatic (chain of locks). Open from 7h to 19h every day (except May 1st and November 1st); from 9h to 18h from 17.03 to 14.06 and from 16.09 to 10.11, on Sundays and public holidays. The inclined plane and the tunnels always close 1 hour earlier. Canal des Houillères de la Sarre: the locks are all automated. Free navigation every day from 01/04 to 31/10 from 8h30-18h30.
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