sentences:  On the border with Au, the sports facilities of VfR Merzhausen have tennis courts and a sports hall.Merzhausen is the starting point for the historical "Bettlerpfad" (Begger's Path), one of the old connections, which is still used to this day as a public footpath, to Freiburg via Staufen im Breisgau and Salzburg to Badenweiler.The village also has a lot of breathtaking nature, so much so that in 2015 successful breeding pairs of long-eared owl have been observed in a garden on the "Schlossweg" and been documented.