Fort-Louis

Fort-Louis (French pronunciation: [fɔʁ lwi]) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

[4] More recently the population of the settlement increased between 1962 and 2004 from 137 to 279.

In 1686 the king mandated Vauban to construct a fortification complex at Fort Louis, situated at that time on an island between two branches of the Rhine.

Today, little survives beyond earthworks and some sections of wall from Fort Carré and Fort Alsace.

This Bas-Rhin geographical article is a stub.

Cassini's map of Fort Louis in the second half of the eighteenth century. The river has subsequently been channeled and the main course of the river, along with the Franco-German frontier, is currently a couple of hundred meters to the east of the fort.