Castle of Ensisheim was in Ensisheim, in the Haut-Rhin area of Alsace in northeastern France, and the historical sources tie Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg’s imprisonment to a fortress there. Ensisheim itself is at about 47.8664°N, 7.3531°E, which places it just west of the Rhine plain and north of Mulhouse.

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  • Place: Ensisheim, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France.
  • Rabbi Meir’s prison site: a fortress in Ensisheim, often referred to as the Ensisheim fortress/castle in historical accounts.
  • Location context: northeastern France, in the Alsace region.

Historical note

Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg was imprisoned in Ensisheim after being captured while traveling, and he died there in 1293 according to standard reference sources. Some sources describe the site as a castle, others as a fortress, but they point to the same Ensisheim location.

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If you search for “Ensisheim, Haut-Rhin, France” on a map, you are looking at the town where the castle/fortress associated with Rabbi Meir’s imprisonment stood.

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