Top 4 Castles around Niederassel

impressive Vauban work , free access except for the museum

The opening times are published online and it's worth investing the €4 for entry. The complex is huge, although not all rooms are accessible. We visited without a guide, but were provided with detailed information material - in German! A very interesting complex that is maintained by a club. Respect!!!

This fort was built between 1875 and 1879. The fort forms the southern end of the defensive curtain of the Haute Moselle region, adjoining the fortified region of Belfort, which extends to the south. The fort was built as part of the French Séré de Rivières system of fortifications to defend France against a recurrence of the Prussian invasion of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871. The fort was one of the most heavily armed forts in the northeast during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Entrance 3€/pers. (free for accompanied children under 12). OPENING EVERY SUNDAY and public holidays from July 3 to September 18 (inclusive): from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. (entrances close at 5:15 p.m.) Possibility of guided tour from April to October (Reservation required).

The fort of Giromagny, built between 1875 and 1879, is part of a line of defense called Haute-Moselle set up at the time. It was used during the First and Second World Wars, but remained abandoned for a long time. It was bought by the municipality in 1988. Since then, it has been restored and is open to visitors.

The fort of Giromagny, built between 1875 and 1879, is part of a line of defense called Haute-Moselle set up at the same time. It was used during the First and Second World Wars, but remained abandoned for a long time. It was bought by the municipality in 1988. Since then, it has been restored and is open to visitors.

Started in 1831, roughly triangular in shape, it is a bastioned fort with a cavalier, intended to accommodate a dozen guns in the open air. On the west bastion stands a tower serving as an observatory. Hit by shells in 1870-1871 and in 1940, it was rebuilt each time, more for sentimental than military reasons. Indeed, before the construction of the fort, this place was already occupied by a very old stone tower of uncertain origins and destination, which has become a real symbol for the Belfortains.

The Belfort citadel is a citadel and fortifications from the 17th century and completed in the 19th century by the military engineers Haxo and Séré de Rivières, in Belfort in the Territoire de Belfort in Burgundy-Franche-Comté. It is a historic strategic military defensive center, the fortified place of Belfort, the fortifications of Eastern France, the iron belt and the towns fortified by Marshal of France Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. Its status as an “impregnable” fortress of the Belfort gap was commemorated in the 19th century by the monuments Lion of Belfort and Monument of the Three Sieges of Belfort, by the sculptor Auguste Bartholdi. The citadel is the subject of multiple protections as historical monuments: a classification on October 23, 1907 (Brisach gate) modified by a classification on August 20, 1913, a classification on March 6, 1923 (Advanced works: advanced bastion B, exterior walls and roofing of the bastion, wall of the rampart and its cover going from bastion B to the gate of Brisach, wall of the rampart and its cover going from the gate of Brisach to the castle, ditches which complete the defense system of the 17th century), an inscription on 13 August 1993 (covered factory canal) and a classification on April 29, 1997 (All the works constituting the castle and its fortifications)1. On September 18, 2020, the citadel was designated a “favorite monument of the French” during the France 3 program The Favorite Monument of the French, on the occasion of European Heritage Days.

a powerful ensemble to defend the city