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Audio Guide Kaysersberg
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Kaysersberg is a small Alsatian town that punches well above its size: a free imperial city since 1293, it packs a fortified bridge, a castle built for Frederick II, and the birthplace of Nobel laureate Albert Schweitzer into a single medieval street. The pink Vosges sandstone that colours almost every building here gives the whole place an unusually coherent look for somewhere with 800 years of history.
15+ researched places in the app
Yes. Parroo is a self-guided audio guide for Kaysersberg: 15 researched places, from Kaysersberg Castle to Church of the Holy Cross and Fortified Bridge, each with a short summary, a full article, and a roughly three-minute audio story in German, English, and French. Buy once, no subscription, no booking. Start whenever you like.
Audio sample: Kaysersberg Castle
Kaysersberg
Places researched in this city
A selection of the 15 places we've researched in this city. The full set is in the Parroo app.
- Medieval castle
- Fortified bridge
- Romanesque church
- Renaissance fountain
- WWII memorial
- Wine heritage
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Kaysersberg Castle
Commissioned around 1220 for Emperor Frederick II to control the pass between Upper Alsace and Lorraine, the castle's circular granite donjon has walls four metres thick and eleven metres across, a rare form in medieval military architecture. It was burned in 1632 during the Thirty Years' War and later converted into a vineyard.
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Church of the Holy Cross
Construction began around 1230 on this pink sandstone church, and its 41-metre tower still anchors the Kaysersberg skyline. Inside, a 1518 Passion retable by sculptor Hans Bongart survives intact, the same craftsman who carved the town fountain three years later.
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Fortified Bridge
Built in 1514, this is the only surviving fortified bridge in Alsace, complete with crenellated parapets, gunports, and a small oratory sheltering a statue of the Virgin Mary. It also served as a site for minor judicial punishments, a detail the tourist brochures tend to skip.
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Kaysersberg Town Hall
Built between 1604 and 1605 by carpenter Dominique Haecher, this Rhenish Renaissance building in local Vosges sandstone originally doubled as an administrative centre and a court. Its spiral staircase, oriel, and marquetry doors are all listed as historic monuments.
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National Necropolis of Sigolsheim
The Germans who fought here in the winter of 1944 to 1945 called this hill Blutberg, Blood Hill, a name that stuck when 1,589 soldiers of the French First Army were buried on its terraces after the Battle of the Colmar Pocket. Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny requested the necropolis himself; it opened in 1965.
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Constantine Fountain
Hans Bongart carved this Renaissance fountain in 1521 from pink and yellow sandstone, placing a statue of Emperor Constantine I at its centre. The octagonal basin holds 211 hectolitres of water, and the fountain cost 1,980 livres when it was restored in 1745, roughly 30,000 euros in today's terms.
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Chapel of Saint Michael and its Ossuary
Rebuilt in 1463, this late-Gothic chapel incorporates a section of the old city wall into its north face, and a semi-underground ossuary beneath it still holds bones relocated from the town cemetery in 1511. Frescoes of the Evangelists and Church Fathers decorate the vaulted interior.
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Good to know
15 researched places, from Kaysersberg Castle and the Church of the Holy Cross to lesser-known spots like the Chapel of Saint Michael and its ossuary. Each one has a short summary, a full article, and a ~3-minute audio story.
Yes. Every place has a ~3-minute audio story, written from the perspective of a guide standing next to you and produced with premium narration, not the article read aloud.
German, English, and French. Pick whichever you'd rather read or listen in.
No booking, no signup. It's a self-guided walk you start whenever you like. You do need a connection for now to stream the audio and load articles; offline support is something we're still building.
A one-time €4.99 for the whole city, no subscription and no recurring cost. You buy Kaysersberg once and keep access to all 15 places with text and audio.
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Updated: 2026-09-25