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Fort Carré of Fort-Louis

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    May 30, 2018

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    Fort-Louis (German Fortlouis [1]) is a French commune with 300 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2015) in the department of Bas-Rhin in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace). It …
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    In 1686, King Louis XIV of France ordered the construction of a fortress [2] in Lower Alsace, right on the border with the Margraviate of Baden. From 1687 it was built within ten years on an island of the then unregulated Rhine according to plans by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban and the fortress engineer Jacques Tarade. The medieval Palatinate in Haguenau, about twenty kilometers away, was razed to the ground and the useful stones were used to build the new fortress on the Rhine.
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    Ruin from the time of Louis XIV
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