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Origin and history

Rexroth Castle is a building built in 1912 in the middle of the forest, 2 km from the village of Charleville-sous-Bois, in the Moselle department. Sponsored by Frédéric Rexroth, it was originally designed as a private domain dedicated to hunting, reflecting the taste of the time for isolated secondary residences in nature.

In 1922, the building changed its vocation when the Social Insurance Institute of Alsace and Lorraine acquired it. As early as 1925, it was converted into a specialized sanatorium for women, meeting the medical needs of the inter-war period. This period marks its anchor in the field of public health, a common trend for many castles reconverted after the First World War.

After the Second World War, in 1946, the castle was allocated to the National Autonomous Fund of Social Security for Mining. It then becomes a center of recovery, then of medium stay, open to all patients in the hospital basin of Metz. This evolution illustrates the adaptation of health infrastructure to the changing needs of the population, while maintaining medical specialization.

The site, now known as the Charleville-sous-Bois convalescence centre, bears witness to nearly a century of medical and social history. Its architecture and forest location recall both its cynegetic origin and its sustainable role in the regional health system.

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