6 Sights in Saverne, France (with Map and Images)
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Explore interesting sights in Saverne, France. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 6 sights are available in Saverne, France.
1. Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité
Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité is the main church in Saverne, Bas-Rhin, France. It was first built in the 12th century as a parish church before being re-consecrated to saint Bartholomew in the late 13th century. It was converted into a collegiate church of Augustinian Canons Regular in the 14th and 15th century and held that status by 1485 at the latest. It is now the town's parish church and has been listed a historic monument since 1977.
2. Château des Rohan
The Château des Rohan is a former episcopal castle built in the late eighteenth century by the architect Nicolas Salins de Montfort. It is located in the center of the town of Saverne, in the Bas-Rhin department, and houses the municipal museums. It is the subject of multiple classifications as historical monuments: in February 1933, in November 1934 and in November 1995.
3. Château de Greifenstein
The Château du Greifenstein is a ruined twelfth-century fortified castle, located on the Vosges mountains in the Saverne forest in Alsace. The fortifications are built at an altitude of 360 meters on a rocky promontory of the Schlosserhœhe which dominates the confluence of the valleys of the Ramsthal and the Zorn whose accesses he monitored.
4. Château du Haut-Barr
The Château de Hohbarr is a medieval castle, first built in 1100, above the city of Saverne in what is now the French département of Bas-Rhin. It was built on sandstone rock 460m above the valley of Zorn and the plain of Alsace. Because of this, it has been called the eye of Alsace.
5. Tour du télégraphe Chappe de Saverne
The Chappe de Saverne telegraph tower is one of the relays of the former Chappe telegraph line, between the French cities of Paris and Strasbourg, inaugurated on May 31, 1798. During operation, the tower was moved to the commune of Haegen in the Bas-Rhin.
6. Château du Grand Géroldseck
The Château du Grand-Geroldseck is a ruined medieval castle situated in the commune of Haegen in the Bas-Rhin département in Alsace, France. It was listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture in 1898.
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