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Albé is a French commune in the Bas Rhin department of Alsace. As of 1999, the poplulation was 457. Until 1867 the village was known by its German name (...)

Lièpvre is a town and commune of the Haut-Rhin ''département'', in Alsace, France. The 8th century saint and abbot, Fulrad, built a monastery here. He also brought relics of Saint Cucuphas to this monastery. (...)

The château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg is located at Orschwiller, Alsace, France, in the Vosges mountains just west of Sélestat. The castle is nestled at a strategic location on a high hill overlooking the Alsatian plain; as a result it was used by successive powers from the Middle Ages until the Thirty Years' War when it was abandoned (...)