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Le château en bref
Saint-Paul Castle (Paulinerschloss), near Wissembourg, originated as an abbey farm mentioned as early as 803, equipped with a chapel placed under the protection of Saint Paul, which was later converted into a priory. Between 1262 and 1293, Abbot Edelin of Wissembourg had a keep-palace flanked by a turret built there, intended to defend the abbey against the Counts Palatine. Wissembourg was then dependent on the Counts of Linange (Leiningen), with a rear-fief held by the Fleckenstein family. Sold as national property after the Revolution, Saint-Paul Castle is today the only one of the four castles that defended the Abbey of Wissembourg to have survived: all that remains is a three-storey square tower, listed in the supplementary inventory of historic monuments in 1933 and 1989.