Castle
Château du Hohlandsbourg
Ruined Habsburg fortress rebuilt stone by stone into the largest fortified castle in Alsace.
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This guide to the Château du Hohlandsbourg above Wintzenheim, near Colmar, follows the fortress from its founding by a Habsburg provost in the twelve hundreds through fire, enlargement by the counts of Lupfen and the commander Lazarus von Schwendi, and its demolition by French troops in the Thirty Years War. It picks up again centuries later, when a regional council took on the ruined stone shell and the long work of putting it back together. Stand in the courtyard, home to the largest fortified castle in Alsace.
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