Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg
Orschwiller, France
Open to visitors
The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.
Strollie cannot guarantee access — always check before you travel.
The Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg is a medieval castle in the commune of Orschwiller in the Bas-Rhin département of Alsace, France, on a rocky spur of the Vosges mountains overlooking the Upper Rhine Plain. Founded in 1114, it was abandoned after the Thirty Years' War and rebuilt from 1900 to 1908 at the behest of Kaiser Wilhelm II. It is a classified historical monument and draws more than 500,000 visitors a year.
- Built
- Type
- castle, château
- Heritage
- classified historical monument, monument historique inscrit
- Place
- Orschwiller, France
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