According to legend, Saint Ursula of Cologne and her entourage of 11,000 virgins found shelter for the night while crossing the stream in Elsheim on the way back from her pilgrimage to Rome.
The magnificent castle in the middle of the city now houses the court and a boarding school. The small inner courtyard of the castle is totally blocked by cars, not nice.
The Alzeyer Castle probably emerged from a Hohenstaufen imperial castle and was expanded into a castle in the 16th century. It was destroyed in the Palatinate War of Succession in …