Château de Geisberg

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Le château en bref

The Château du Geisberg, on the wooded heights south of Wissembourg, is an 18th-century residence built from 1692 onwards for Jean Gaspard de Hatzel, an ennobled burgher and royal bailiff, by the architect Rondouin. From the outset, the farming of the estate was entrusted to Swiss Mennonite families, whose descendants still live there; the site is now organised around a museum devoted to the history of the Mennonites of Alsace. The Geisberg plateau was also the scene of two major battles: the recapture of Wissembourg from Austrian troops in 1793, and later one of the first Franco-Prussian clashes of 1870.