Ottrott Castle

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Le château en bref

Lutzelbourg Castle, one of the two castles of Ottrott together with its immediate neighbour Rathsamhausen, was built in the mid-13th century below the latter, with which it shares a common defensive system: a niched arrow slit in the keep faces the neighbouring castle so that each could defend the other. Several coats of arms identified on the site attest to the presence of numerous seigneurial families — Rathsamhausen, Hohenstein, Andlau — before the Mullenheim (1424-1557) and then once again the Rathsamhausen inherited it at the end of the 16th century; it finally passed to the Scheidecker family in the 19th century. Listed (inscrit) as a historic monument since 1985 and restored in 1991-1992, the site, now privately owned, can be visited freely and at no charge from the outside.