Fort-Louis
Fort -Louis is a commune with 331 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Bas- Rhin in the Alsace region. It lies on the Rhine, near the German communities Rheinmünster - Söllingen and hills home. The place is a member of the Communauté de communes de l' Uffried.
History
In 1686, King Louis XIV of France ordered the construction of a fortress in the lower Rhine, directly on the border with Margraviate of Baden. It was built from 1687 in ten years on an island in the Rhine had not yet regulated, designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban fortress and the civil engineer Jacques Tarade. The medieval Pfalz in Haguenau about twenty miles away was razed to the ground and the useful stones used for the construction of the new fortress on the Rhine.
Two upstream forts were built as bridgeheads on the opposite banks of the Rhine, the fort Alsace on Alsatian side and the Fort Marquisat at Baden shore. Called South of the Fort Carré main fort was built on the island at the same time the regular street grid of the municipality Fort -Louis, whose colonization of the king promoted with privileges. The fort had Marquisat after the Peace of Ryswick in 1697 are given in the meantime, finally after the Peace of Rastatt 1714. The main fortress was stormed in 1793 during the First Coalition War 1815-18 and further destroyed.
Since the straightening of the Rhine in the 19th century are Fort and municipality on the left side of the Rhine. Remains of the fortress are still available today.
Remains of the fort