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Walking tour: the Engelbourg castle
About the walk
path
Start :
Thann - Parking du Bungert
Altitude difference :
250 m
Length :
5 Km
Useful information
historical/heritage path
hiking path
IGN walking map needed :
1/25000 3620 ET
Marking :
Difficulty : suited for all
Want to discover exceptional and unusual sites in the heights of Thann? Lets yourself be surprised by the "Witches eye", which looks over the Alsace plain and watches over the inhabitants of the town. The legend says that the Engelbourg castle having no more strategic interest, was destroyed in 1673 by order of the king Louis XIV. After three explosion attempts by the fire workers, the big tower rose up, broke into several parts and one of them fell and formed the "Witches eye".