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Le château en bref
At the foot of the Schlossberg, the Château Adt in Forbach tells the industrial history of the town more than a seigneurial one. The building came into being in the early 1850s under the name Château Sainte-Croix: it first housed a forestry and agricultural school founded by Jean Staub, which soon ran into difficulties, and then, from 1856, a chemical match factory. In 1864, the Adt brothers, heads of a major cardboard business, acquired the property and made it their family residence. A Second Empire villa in Jaumont stone, known as the Villa Bartier, was built in 1867, and two wings were added to enlarge it in the early 1910s. After the First World War, the Adt family left Forbach; the estate was bought by the de Wendel family, who converted it into the Sainte-Barbe Hospital in 1924. Owned by the commune, it now houses the municipal Conservatoire of Music and Dance, in the middle of the Sainte-Barbe park.