Lichtenberg
Lichtenberg Castle crowns a height in the northern Vosges. First mentioned in 1206, it gave its name to a lordly family whose heirs included the counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg. Around 1580 Count Philip IV commissioned the Strasbourg engineer Daniel Specklin to transform the castle into a fortress suited to artillery. It nevertheless fell to the troops of Louis XIV under Marshal de Créqui in 1678, after an eight-day siege.