France · 12th century
The Château du Landsberg is a castle in the commune of Heiligenstein in the Bas-Rhin département in Alsace, France.
The castle includes a Zwinger with two sets of defensive walls. Construction dates from the 12th, 13th and 15th centuries. The land belonged to the Abbey of Niedersmunster.
The castle is privately owned. It has been listed since 1965 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.
Text adapted from “Château du Landsberg” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Château du Landsberg ranks #4,901 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #422 of the 787 mapped in France. Founded 1197, it is older than 77% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 763 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. 20 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Strasbourg, 30 km away. It is one of the 63 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Alsace. It is stop 17 of 32 on the Alsace castle route, Wissembourg to Mulhouse. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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