France · 11th century
The three castles of Husseren-les-Châteaux (German: Drei Exen or Hoh-Egisheim, French: Haut-Eguisheim or Les Trois Châteaux d’Eguisheim), alternatively referred to as the three castles of Eguisheim, stand in the French Vosges in upper Alsace in the department of Haut-Rhin. The group of castles is variously named after the nearby town of Eguisheim, or the village of Husseren-les-Châteaux.
The three castles – from north to south called the Dagsburg, the Wahlenburg and Weckmund Castle – were built close to one another, but not at the same time, on a low hill ridge. This type of arrangement, with a cluster of three castles, is found in several places in the Vosges and the nearby Palatine Forest in Germany, for example the Dreistein on the Odilienberg, the cluster of castles at Ochsenstein near Saverne, the Hohkönigsburg and the castles at Dahn.
Text adapted from “Three castles of Husseren-les-Châteaux” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Les Trois Châteaux ranks #5,278 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #466 of the 793 mapped in France. Founded c. 1025, it is older than 91% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 436 atlas entries founded in the 11th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,239 times in the last 60 days, more than 56% of the atlas. 16 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Colmar, 8 km away. It is one of the 63 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Alsace. It is stop 32 of 32 on the Alsace castle route, Wissembourg to Mulhouse. See how France compares in the castle statistics.
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