Saint-Hippolyte, Haut-Rhin
Saint-Hippolyte is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
Saint-Hippolyte, with the round Stork Tower
Village of Saint-Hippolyte with the castle of Haut-Koenigsbourg
Town hall
Statue of Saint Fulrad at Lièpvre
Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg
The Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg, sometimes also Haut-Kœnigsbourg, is a medieval castle located in the commune of Orschwiller in the Bas-Rhin département of Alsace, France. Located in the Vosges mountains just west of Sélestat, situated in a strategic area on a rocky spur overlooking the Upper Rhine Plain, it was used by successive powers from the Middle Ages until the Thirty Years' War when it was abandoned. From 1900 to 1908 it was rebuilt at the behest of the German kaiser Wilhelm II. Today it is a major tourist site, attracting more than 500,000 visitors a year.
View from the castle over the Alsatian plain up to the Black Forest
Castle ruins, 1851
Marienburg Castle, Malbork, Poland.
Main gate with arms of Wilhelm II