HAUT KÖNIGSBOURG

The château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg is a medieval castle located at Orschwiller, Alsace, France, in the Vosges mountains just west of Sélestat. It is situated in a strategic location on a rocky spur overlooking the Upper Rhine Plain; as a result it was used by successive powers from the Middle Ages until the Thirty Years' War when it was abandoned. From 1900 to 1908 it was rebuilt at the behest of the German emperor Wilhelm II.

Le château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg est un ancien château fort du xiie siècle, profondément remanié au xve siècle et qui fut sous Guillaume II un symbole impérial allemand, qui se dresse sur la commune française d'Orschwiller en Alsace.