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    Location: Scherweiler, Schlettstadt-Erstein, Alsace, France

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    August 21, 2025

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    At the end of the ridge, at an altitude of 443 meters, lies Ortenbourg Castle, built between 1260 and 1265 by Rudolf Habsburg and one of the most beautiful ruins in the Rhine Valley. A masterpiece of military architecture, with its high gorge surrounding a 32-meter-long dungeon, it is visible from afar and blends perfectly into the landscape. This dungeon offered six levels of defensive fire, and its pentagonal design allowed for better deflection of attackers' projectiles. The recently founded association "Les sentinelles de l'Ortenbourg" (Ortenbourg Sentinels) aims to preserve, expand, and revitalize the castle.
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    July 10, 2018

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    The castle Ortenberg (French Château de l'Ortenbourg) is a medieval castle ruin near Scherwiller in Alsace ...

    Ortenberg is considered the highlight and ideal type of early Gothic castle construction in Alsace. The Kernburg rises on a granite rock, which is separated by a deep neck trench from the massif of the Knights Mountain. Directly above the ditch are the 18-meter-high, multi-kinked and pierced by loopholes mantle wall and the immediately behind it placed 30-meter-high, pentagonal keep the potential attacker against ...

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    July 26, 2020

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    Not only the castle ruins are very impressive, the view over the Rhine valley, Kaiserstuhl and the Black Forest is also terrific!
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