Réserve naturelle

Situated on a former Rhine gravel bank, the Offendorf Forest Nature Reserve protects 60 hectares of alluvial forest. Although the entire site is deprived of the dynamics of the Rhine floods, its depressions can be flooded by rising water tables. It is also surrounded by former arms of the Rhine.
The most flooded areas are home to white willows and black poplars or ""softwoods"". Hardwoods", oaks, ash trees and shrubs prefer alluvial levees. In open areas, British inules, tall violets, marsh spurge and marsh ragwort flourish.
Numerous species of butterflies invade edges, clearings and undergrowth: azure sylvain, great changeable March, map, machaon, dawn, lemon, etc. Amphibians include agile, green and red frogs, crested, alpine or spotted newts.

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