In this walk of nuggets, we find everything, archeology, popular art, sacred art, industrial, natural and gastronomic heritage, old, modern, everything that gives relief to a region. Let’s first go to Fey-en-Haye (77 inhabitants). During the 1st World War, this village was wedged between the German and French lines, it was a “no man’s land”. Today, the place is amazing, peaceful, in the middle of nowhere, in the center of landscapes filled with distant horizons and fields where silences and immensities grow. There are of course a few houses and above all an extremely rare church, built by Jules Criqui, an architect from Nancy who used classical genres but was also influenced by Art Deco. One of the walls of the church bears the monument to the dead, a very rare occurrence, and there are two stained glass windows by master Jacques Gruber in this church.
Let’s stay in the spiritual realm (and on an old border) and now go to the Vosges. In Lusse (395 inhabitants), very close to the Franco-German border of 1871, by climbing up the mountain, you will first catch a quite exceptional view of the Blue, Fave and even Meurthe valleys , and you will find a row of Tibetan flags; you have arrived in one of the great Buddhist centers of France. It cannot be visited like that, but you can be welcomed for a retreat. You will then meet the Lama Tsultrim… a former Air France steward.
Back in Meurthe-et-Moselle, in Dommartin-la-Chaussée (32 inhabitants) with its open-air popular art museum, a museum of everything and anything, flooding all the streets of the village. It’s breathtaking! Let’s also take a trip to Moselle, to Launstroff (267 inhabitants), on the Franco-German border. On the heights of the village, here are first of all panoramas that the azure, opal and emerald coasts together envy us, here is also a site called “the menhirs of Europe”…. bizarre, because the place is both fantastic and very little known. The menhirs are sculptures, sometimes colossal, sometimes more modest, made by 36 artists of 17 nationalities.
