Petit-Landau
Château de Butenheim
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The ruins of the 11th-century motte castrale, then the 12th- to 16th-century fortified castle of the former village of Butenheim, have been listed as a historic monument since 1964. Butenheim Castle is mentioned as early as 1111 and is thought to have been founded around 1050, making it one of the oldest fortified castles in Alsace. Its structure is that of a circular motte from the High Middle Ages. Butenheim Castle was destroyed during the Thirty Years’ War (1618-48) and its last remains were razed to the ground in 1865. The archaeological site was excavated in the 1980s. To this day, all that remains of the village and its fortified castle is a grove of trees in the middle of the fields, and a few remains of walls and perimeter walls.
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