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Fort Carré of Fort-Louis

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Fort Carré of Fort-Louis

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Location: Fort-Louis, Hagenau-Weißenburg, Alsace, France

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1. Passerelle des Deux Rives – La Petite France loop from Beinheim-Roppenheim

116km

06:51

190m

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2. La Petite France – Le long du Rhin loop from Lauterbourg

138km

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220m

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3. Passerelle des Deux Rives – View of Saint-Paul church loop from Strasbourg

115km

06:52

190m

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CyclingOlli

May 30, 2018

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 is located on the Rhine, near the German communities Rheinmuenster-Söllingen and Hügelsheim.

In 1686, King Louis XIV of France ordered the construction of a fortress in lower Alsace, immediately on the border with the Margraviate of Baden. It was built in 1687 within ten years on an island of the then unregulated Rhine to plans by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban and the fortress engineer Jacques Tarade. The medieval Palatinate in about twenty kilometers away Haguenau was razed to the ground and used the useful stones for the construction of the new fortress on the Rhine.

Two offshore forts were built as bridgeheads on the opposite banks of the Rhine, Alsace on the Alsatian side and the Fort Marquisat on the banks of the Baden. South of the main fort called Fort Carré was built on the island at the same time the regular road grid of the community Fort-Louis, whose settlement promoted the king with privileges. The Fort Marquisat had to be abandoned after the peace of Rijswijk 1697 in the meantime, finally after the Rastatt peace of 1714. The main fortress was stormed in 1793 in the First Coalition War and further destroyed in 1815-18.

Since the rectification of the Rhine in the 19th century, the fort and the village are located on the left bank of the Rhine. Remains of the fortress are still present today.

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Ralf Fuchs

June 15, 2020

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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CyclingOlli

April 9, 2019

Ruin from the time of Louis XIV

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Location: Fort-Louis, Hagenau-Weißenburg, Alsace, France

Fort Carré of Fort-Louis

1. Passerelle des Deux Rives – La Petite France loop from Beinheim-Roppenheim

2. La Petite France – Le long du Rhin loop from Lauterbourg

3. Passerelle des Deux Rives – View of Saint-Paul church loop from Strasbourg

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