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Le château en bref
Gendersberg Castle, also spelt Gentersberg, stands in an isolated outlying settlement on the north-western plateau of Hanviller, in the Bitche area of Moselle, France. The fief was held from 1445 to 1547 by knights of Deux-Ponts, then passed to Count Jacques de Bitche, and was sold in 1620 to Louis de Carelle, commander of Bitche. The former fortified castle, built on a height in the Dittlenbach woods, disappeared towards the end of the 16th or the beginning of the 17th century. The present residence was built in 1723 for Jean-Frédéric Dithmar, receiver of finances and ironworks master at Mouterhouse, ennobled the same year, and was completed in 1751. Long and low, roofed with flat tiles, it has projecting wings at the ends of its two façades and central doorways beneath broken pediments bearing the joined coats of arms of the Dithmar and La Lance de Moranville families. The estate subsequently passed to the Counts de Gudin. A privately owned property attached to a farm, its façades and roofs have been listed as historic monuments since 27 June 1984.