Château du Morimont (Burg Mörsberg)

En un regard

Le château en bref

First mentioned in 1271 in a deed between the Count of Ferrette and the Bishop of Basel, Morimont Castle (Mörsberg), at Oberlarg, was destroyed by the Basel earthquake of 1356, then rebuilt and fortified by Pierre de Morimont, a vassal of the Ferrettes. Passing to the Habsburgs, it was besieged twice by the Swiss before being destroyed by French troops in 1637 during the Thirty Years’ War. Nicknamed the ‘Alsatian Pierrefonds’, it is the setting of the legend of Mathilde de Morimont, an Alsatian ‘Cinderella’.