On the road from Ribeauvillé to Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, not far from the turn-off to the road to Aubure, there stands a rock forty feet high, known as the Hirzsprung, the “Deer’s Leap”. It owes its name to the following event.
Count Anselm II of Rappoltstein, who died around the year 1314, was a passionate hunter. One day, while pursuing a magnificent stag, he suddenly came with his horse to the edge of the rock that jutted out above the abyss.
He could no longer hold the horse back, and with the cry, “Mary, help!” he plunged into the depths. He reached the bottom unharmed and, in gratitude for his miraculous rescue, built one of the two chapels of Dusenbach.
