Forts, fortifications, arsenals in Alsace

Patrimoine défensif
67190 Dinsheim-sur-Bruche

Mutzig Fort, located in Dinsheim-sur-Bruche in the East, is an emblematic historical monument of the region, whose exact period remains undetermined.

Fortification
68700 Cernay

The Cernay fortifications, built in the 14th and 16th centuries, are a defensive complex located in the Haut-Rhin, marked by an artillery tower and vestiges of quadrangular enclosure adapted to the reborn artillery.

Patrimoine défensif
67116 Reichstett

Fort Rapp, formerly fort Moltke, is a 19th-century military structure located in Reichstett (Great East), part of the fortified belt of Strasbourg. Built in Vosges sandstone, this dry ditch Biehler fort spans 4.5 hectares.

68190 Ensisheim

The former urban fortified system of Ensisheim, built between the 13th and 18th centuries in the Upper Rhine, is a historical defensive complex marked by successive changes and architectures in sandstone and brick.

Fortification
68000 Colmar

Colmar's guard corps, a 16th century Renaissance Rhine building, stands in the Cathedral Square. Former town hall transformed into a municipal building, it houses a medieval ossuary crypt and a historic loggia.

68410 Ammerschwihr

The fortified compound of Ammerschwihr, built in the 14th and 16th centuries, is a medieval vestige protecting the Alsatian village. Located in the Haut-Rhin, it preserves partially intact doors, towers and ramparts.

67280 Oberhaslach

The Gallo-Roman fortifications of the Ringelsberg, located in Oberhaslach (Bas-Rhin), are the remains of an oval-planed dry stone enclosure dating from the Gallo-Roman period and classified as a historical monument since 1898.

67207 Niederhausbergen

The Saint-Sava Chapel, located in the former Fort Foch (ex-Kronprinz) in Niederhausbergen (Great East), is a 19th-century building decorated with frescoes by Yugoslav prisoners in 1944, now integrated into a faculty of primatology.