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Le château en bref
Mouterhouse Castle, known as the Wasserburg, stood at the locality of Kapellenhof, near the Moderbach, in the commune of Mouterhouse, in the Bitche area. This lowland castle was built in 1505 for Reinhard, Count of Zweibrücken and lord of Bitche. Constructed of sandstone, rubble and dressed stone, it was protected by a moat; before the Second World War, a polygonal tower and a section of curtain wall still survived. The castle was destroyed by Swedish troops in 1633, during the Thirty Years' War. In 1793, a glassworks project was considered near the ruins. The last remains were demolished in 1944, and the site was then quarried for stone for the reconstruction. A foundation stone bearing the date 1505 was reused in the western wall of the nearby Chapelle Notre-Dame. The site, communal property according to the 1986 Inventory, is not protected as a historic monument.