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View of Ortenbourg and Ramstein Castles from the Vineyards

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View of Ortenbourg and Ramstein Castles from the Vineyards

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Location: Châtenois, Schlettstadt-Erstein, Alsace, France

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🇺🇦Schinderhannes

October 15, 2022

Top view from Scherwiller

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La Tabatière du Rhin

February 21, 2024

Video in German language:

At the beginning of the 16th century, the Holy Roman Empire experienced a wave of local revolts (the Bundschuhe: "laced shoes", a symbol chosen in opposition to the lordly spurred boot), fomented by the peasantry against the regime. feudal.

From June 1524, these sporadic revolts took on the magnitude of a real general war which broke out throughout the south, west and center of the Empire. The Peasants' War or "Russians' War" lasted until May 15, 1525, the date of the death of the leader and preacher Thomas Müntzer, at the Battle of Frankenhausen; although in reality, uprisings were recorded in the Austrian Alps until 1526.

It is here, at the foot of the Ramstein and Ortenbourg castles, on these meadows surrounded by vineyards, that the Battle of Scherwiller took place on the evening of May 20, 1525. Nearly 35,000 men faced off in a pitched battle without pity between the Franco-Lorraine troops and the Alsatian militias of the Bundschuh.

After several hours of combat, the army of Duke Antoine de Lorraine was once again victorious. There were five hundred killed (estimated figure) in the Franco-Ducal expeditionary force, and at least four thousand in the coalition of fifteen to twenty thousand peasant insurgents present.

A local legend says that the bones of the victims of the repression of Duke Antoine de Lorraine during the Rustauds revolt are in the ossuary of the Saint-Sébastien chapel in Dambach:

Above the gate which today prevents access to the interior of the ossuary is a sandstone plaque bearing a quote which leaves any visitor wondering:

“Was Ihr seid, sind wir gewesen - Was wir sind, werdet ihr werden

What you are, we were - What we are, you will become”

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Petr

May 16, 2024

Beautiful landscape to enjoy. The grade isn't too steep, and it isn't a terrible demanding bike section.

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Location: Châtenois, Schlettstadt-Erstein, Alsace, France

View of Ortenbourg and Ramstein Castles from the Vineyards

1. View of Andlau – Andlau loop from Ribeauvillé

2. Andlau – View of Andlau loop from Goxwiller

3. Sélestat Water Tower – Scherwiller Village Center loop from Sélestat

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