Château de Drulingen is a château in

Drulingen Drulingen () is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. Château de Drulingen was built in 1816. See also * Communes of the Bas-Rhin department The following is a list of the 514 communes of the Bas-Rhin dep ...

Bas-Rhin Bas-Rhin (; Alsatian: ''Unterelsàss'', ' or '; traditional german: links=no, Niederrhein; en, Lower Rhine) is a department in Alsace which is a part of the Grand Est super-region of France. The name means 'Lower Rhine', referring to its low ...

Alsace Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...

, France. The building was built in 1816 by Jean Schmidt (1775-1844) upon his return from the

Napoleonic wars The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major global conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European states formed into various coalitions. It produced a period of Fren ...

. It became a ''

monument historique ''Monument historique'' () is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which National Heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a coll ...

'' on 16 July 1987.

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Châteaux in Bas-Rhin Monuments historiques of Bas-Rhin Houses completed in 1816 1816 establishments in France {{Alsace-castle-stub