For the first time in sixty years, the storks are back in Osthoffen, this village of 900 inhabitants in western Strasbourg.
They took possession of the old nest on the chimney of the keep, where it stood, around 50 BC.
AD, a Roman watchtower.
Opposite, the castle, shaped over the centuries, keeps its appearance, with its stone bridge, its two towers with pointed roofs, its glazed tiles, its Renaissance gables, one of which is surmounted by a statue of Saint Quirin.
On a human scale, it is one of the thirty-five plain castles still inhabited in Alsace, much less numerous than the ruins that dot the Vosges.
But they cannot be visited, with the exception of the parks.
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In the soft light of a late summer afternoon, one of the storks spreads its wide wings, plunges towards the moat where there has never been any water, before rising in the airs, towards the rolling fields of Ackerland.
She will come back to feed her brood.
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