Château de Hunebourg

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Hunebourg Castle is located west of Neuwiller-lès-Saverne in Lower Rhine. Currently, the castle site is located on a sandstone rock at 425 meters altitude. It is accessible from the Zinsel Valley.

The Counts of Hunebourg, most probably from the Counts of Dabo-Metz, that is, from the Folmar of Bliesgau-Metz-Lunéville by men and from the Eguisheim-Dabo Counts of Nordgau by women, are cited at the beginning of the twelfth in documents that indicate the existence of the castle and the first two Counts Theoderic and Folmar. The Hunebourg Sires, which owned the castle until 1225, were confessed to the abbeys of Neuwiller and Honau. The castle was completely razed in the early 19th century and transformed into a leisure park.

A new neoroman style castle began to be built on the site from 1935 by the autonomist Fritz Spieser and became a high place for collaboration with the Nazi regime during the Second World War. The end of the war, however, put an end to Spieser's grandiose project and only part of the planned buildings was built. The building has been listed as historic monuments since the...