Saint-Amarin town walls

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Le château en bref

In Saint-Amarin, in the Thur valley, the town walls are a small structure with a trapezoidal plan, built in the 13th century around the market town that grew out of a monastery. According to the heritage inventory, they had two gates (a lower gate and an upper gate) and three corner towers. They left outside the walls the collegiate church and the church of Saint-Martin, and a wall linked them to the Friedberg castle, which guarded the toll of the abbots of Murbach. Some remains survive: fragments of wall behind houses on rue Curiale, two round towers still standing (near the presbytery and on rue du Cerf), and a ditch still discernible outside the wall.