Castle
Château de Kaysersberg
Ruined hilltop fortress crowned by one of the region's earliest cylindrical keeps.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Chateau de Kaysersberg, above the village in Kaysersberg Vignoble near Colmar, follows the medieval engineering decision behind its cylindrical keep, one of the first round towers raised in the upper Rhine valley. It traces the reasoning that pushed thirteenth century builders away from square towers, the Habsburg lookouts who once watched the road to Lorraine from its summit, and the sixteenth century siege that brought in Lazarus von Schwendi to rebuild it. Climb the same hundred and twenty two steps they did.
This audio guide was created using AI.