Château de Thanvillé, Medieval castle in Val de Villé, France

Château de Thanvillé stands east of the village on the floor of the Villé valley, not on a hill. Its rough pale stone walls show carved figures and patches of reddish stone at the corners. A central building with an arched entrance and pyramidal roof topped by a small bell tower with a cross is flanked by wings with red tiled roofs and wooden doors; a round turret with a conical roof rises to the left, and a tiered stone fountain sits in front of the arch.

A chronicle by Jean de Bayon mentions a ministerialis named Wiry dying around 1089 on a castle site at Thanvillé, though the text was written three centuries later and the building's completion is uncertain. A castle is documented again in 1507, when Duke René of Lorraine ceded it to Gaspard de Hattstatt on condition of repairs. Damaged in a Protestant revolt, it passed to Jean de Vidrange, burned in 1571, and was rebuilt by Jean-Friedrich of Worms, who added bastioned towers. Burned in 1633 during the Thirty Years' War, it was restored from 1660, and Charles-Frédéric de Lort de Saint-Victor drained the moats and reworked the façades after 1752.

The castle's name passed to its owners: after Jean Friedrich de Worms died in 1598, his son took the name Friedrich de Tanviller. The building itself changed hands repeatedly, from the Hattstatt and Lorraine families to the Vidrange, Worms, Coqfontaine and Castex families, and was sold again after 1979.

The castle stands east of the village on the valley floor of the Villé, at 250 m downstream of the point where the valley narrows between the Galgenrain and Hollé hills, along the old Salt Route. It is reached from the village via Rue du Château and the Schlosshof. The building is only partially protected as a monument historique and is privately owned, so it is not open as a regular visitor site.

On 17 August 1870, Captain Stouvenot's company of 48 mobile guards surprised two squadrons of Baden dragoons camped in front of the castle; the dragoons fled toward the valley, leaving 10 dead and about 30 wounded, with five prisoners taken to Sélestat.