Vieux bourg de Marlenheim

Marlenheim has been an inhabited village since prehistoric times, and its history developed well during the period of the Merovingian (5th-8th century) and Carolingian (8th-10th century) kings.
Marlenheim (5-8th century)(8-10th century)The village was a royal residence, with the palace of Marilegio villa, the first mention of Marlenheim by Gregory of Tours in the Historia Francorum.
Marilegio villaHistoria FrancorumIt was also in Marlenheim that the first mention of vines in Alsace was made. The appearance of the old center has a physiognomy inherited from the ancient Roman camp of the first centuries AD, an almost rectilinear central axis, a place of worship on a central promontory surely fortified in the Middle Ages, as well as a fishbone road network.
The first mention of vines in AlsaceRenaissance turret houses, the town hall, the château du&nbsp