Zabern

Zabern, known in French as Saverne, lies at a passage through the Vosges between Lorraine and the Alsatian plain. From the Middle Ages its fortunes were closely bound to the bishops of Strasbourg, who made the town a residence. Under bishops of the Rohan family in the eighteenth century, Saverne enjoyed a period of splendour. Their palace burned in 1779, and Bishop Louis de Rohan undertook its rebuilding.