Château de Kintzheim

The Merovingian kings had made it into the center of a vast domain including the valley of the Liepvre River and the forests of Haut-Koenigsbourg.

In 1492, on the order of Emperor Frederick III of Habsburg, the landvogt of Alsace, Gaspard de Morimont, sold the castle to the town of Sélestat.

In 1802, the future Baron of the Second Empire, Gaetan Mathieu de Fabvier, bought the castle,[1] and below it he built a manor house in the Directory style.

Between the two structures he built a park in the English style, which today is classified by the French Ministry of Culture.

[2] He created a romantic landscape garden, or jardin tableau, to highlight the view of the ruined castle, inspired by the paintings of Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorraine and Hubert Robert.