When you take rue de Ferrette, the scene is set: a tiny pink half-timbered house, well not the beams, which are brown, it’s the cob which is candy pink. A big red heart sits on the window at the entrance. In three steps, you are in front of the door of what is the smallest museum in France, with barely 19m². Perhaps the world, too, you will tell me. During the war, the building served as a prison before becoming the village dairy. Of course, the little building wasn’t painted pink yet, that would have looked weird. After a major renovation in 2019, this museum specializing in postcards welcomes you today. You will see a collection of more than 20,000 postcards distributed in a good thousand binders.
It is literally history, the epistolary relations between young lovers and the less young also of the surrounding villages, some of these postcards date back more than a hundred years. This museum thus preserves the memory of 70 villages of Sundgau with more than 20,000 photos (postcards, of course) listed from 1900 to 1960. Researchers can study local habits and customs there, as well as the history of the map. postal.
The museum is open on Valentine’s Day and usually on Sundays in the summer (for May, June and September, only the 1st Sunday of the month). For other days, inquire in advance at the town hall of Werentzhouse. Come and discover local customs, religious festivals, work in the fields, trades… as well as the history of the postcard at the Museum of Lovers and Sundgauvian Heritage, 2 rue de Ferrette in Werentzhouse.