Château des Rohan

Magnifique château - devant lui la place Charles de Gaulle - place centrale de la ville.

The Rohan Castle (French: Château des Rohan), also known as Château Neuf (New Castle), is a classical monumental building in the city of Saverne (Alsatian) in Alsace. The 140-meter-wide park façade made of red Voges sandstone is considered one of the most impressive examples of its kind.
The building was built from 1780 to 1790 by the architect Nicolas Salins de Montfort in place of the previous building burnt down in 1779 from 1670, which in turn replaced the still existing small Château Vieux (Old Castle) from 1417. The architect was commissioned by the Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg Louis René Édouard de Rohan-Guéméné, who also resided in the magnificent Palais Rohan in his official city and in the modest Rohan Castle in Mutzig. At the outbreak of the French Revolution, the castle was completed only externally. With the dissolution of clerical rule, the building lost its owner and function
The gradual decline of the building was not until Napoleon III. Halted, which it renovated and expanded towards the city. However, as early as 1853, the park was irrevocably cut up and destroyed by the Marne-Rhine Canal. Since 1858, the castle houses a city museum (history, arts and crafts, rich archaeological department), which was joined in the 20th century by the art and ethnographic collection of the politician Louise Weiss.Previously, the castle had temporarily served as a home for officer widows and, after the German-French War, as a German barracks. In the basement dungeon of the castle, the so-called Pandurenkeller, known by the held there pseudo-Alchemical gold prospection experiments Cagliostros, were held in late November 1913 in the course of the Zaberner riots by the military authorities unlawfully detained Alsatian demonstrators overnight.Today, one of the wings of the building is used as a youth hostel. In another wing is the event hall Espace Rohan with five hundred seats.Source: Wikipedia

Le Rohanschloss, surnommé le « Petit Versailles alsacien », est situé au centre-ville de Saverne, sur le canal Rhin-Marne.
Ce palais prince-évêque, construit à la fin du XVIIIe siècle et restauré sous l'impulsion de Napoléon III, abrite aujourd'hui un musée, un centre culturel, une auberge de jeunesse et une école.
La façade en grès rose de style néoclassique s'étend sur 140 mètres de long, ce qui correspond horizontalement à la hauteur de la cathédrale de Strasbourg.

Source : tourisme-alsace.com