Husseren-les-Châteaux is the highest village in the Alsace vineyards. The view over the Rhine plain to the horizon of the Black Forest is splendid. The wines harvested on its hillsides of Pfersigberg and Eichberg are justly famous and known since the 15th century.
Quoted for the first time in the archives of the Bishopric of Basel in 1247, it was at first simple huts that housed the craftsmen and workers who built the three castles in the 11th and 12th centuries and then in the 13th century the Abbey Of Marbach, hence the name of "Haüsern", ie "houses" which became Husseren, and Husseren the Castles in 1925.
Husseren, who was prosperous before the 30-year war, under the episcopal control of Basle and the lords of Hattstatt and Schauenburg, experienced the misfortunes of the war and was plundered by the Swedes in 1633.
After 1648 prosperity came back thanks to the Swiss and German immigrants and the development of viticulture by the noble families of the Poltiers and the Cambefort. Husseren even had a school in 1669.
Husseren, planted at the starting point of the picturesque "Route des Cinq Châteaux", is an ideal place of tranquility and a stay for tourists and city-dwellers who are tired of The hectic agitation of modern life.
