France · 19th century
The Fort de Mutzig, also known as Feste Kaiser Wilhelm II, is located near the town of Mutzig, in the Bas-Rhin department of France. It is one of the fortifications built by Germany at the end of the 19th century to defend Strasbourg.
It was the first new fortification built in what was then German territory after the invention of high explosives, which rendered earlier masonry fortifications obsolete.
Text adapted from “Fort de Mutzig” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort de Mutzig ranks #1,908 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #143 of the 787 mapped in France. Founded 1893, one of 705 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 5,009 times in the last 60 days, more than 86% of the atlas. 24 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Strasbourg, 22 km away. It is one of the 63 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Alsace. It is stop 12 of 32 on the Alsace castle route, Wissembourg to Mulhouse. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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