Tatiana Geiselmann 11:39 a.m., June 17, 2022, amended at 11:41 a.m., June 17, 2022
It has forged the reputation of being the city with the most swimming pools per square meter per inhabitant: Truchtersheim, the little Alsatian Monaco, is the ideal place to ride out the heat wave.
Here, almost everyone has a pool to do a few fathoms and forget the 40 degrees of mercury.
When you ask the inhabitants of Truchtersheim what makes their city famous, two answers come directly to their lips: Truche (as they say over there) is the city where Brigitte Macron presented herself as a candidate in the municipal elections in 1989 But it is also the city, "where there is the greatest concentration of swimming pools per square kilometer", smiles Gilles, crossed in front of the primary school.
"It was one of the first things people said to me when I arrived here."
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Inground pool, self-supporting, in stone, in wood
A small survey of the pupils of the elementary school of Truchtersheim confirms this reputation: all of them have a swimming pool at home.
The question is rather who has the largest.
While Louise has the longest pool (12 meters long), Yseult has the deepest pool (more than two meters), and Anna's pool has the advantage of being lined with wood.
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However, by alpagating the parents at the end of the classes, most claim not to have one.
Except that by digging a little, we realize that they do have one, but "it's not very big", "it's not an inground pool", "it's just for children ".
Count the number of swimming pools via satellite views
For the inhabitants of neighboring towns in any case, there is no doubt.
"There really are swimming pools everywhere in Truche", testifies Anthony.
He has even already gone to check the satellite images of Google maps.
"There are blue rectangles that appear at almost every house."
And these rectangles will continue to accumulate, since the few Truchtersheimois who do not yet have a swimming pool, also end up giving in.
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Crossed at the bend of a street, Marc and Béatrice are just in the process of setting up theirs.
"As we are not going on vacation this summer and we have our grandchildren coming, we thought it would still be practical", explains this young grandmother, "here, in Alsace, the air does not circulate and we suffocate".
An additional swimming pool therefore, which is added to the long list of swimming pools already existing in Truchtersheim.
What justifies the nickname of "little Alsatian Monaco" given to the village.