Les enceintes de Strasbourg à travers les siècles

Abstract

The inhabitants of Strasbourg became aware of the wealth of their military heritage only during the twentieth century. Two towers of the surrounding wall of the late Empire Roman town were protected according to the legislation on historic monuments. None of the remains from the early Middle Ages are protected, although land use patterns give information on that period. As for the fortifications of the later Middle Ages, some towers were protected in the 1930s, although only few considering their number. They are buried in the underground levels of the city like vestiges of the beginnings of the modern period, for which two major monuments have been protected. Elements of the German period between 1870 and 1918 have been protected only recently.

Keywords

• antique
• surrounding wall
• episcopal
• moat
• medieval
• modern