Bucheneck Castle
| Bucheneck Castle | ||
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 View from the northwest |
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| Alternative name (s): | Château de Bucheneck | |
| Creation time : | 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | receive | |
| Standing position : | clergy | |
| Construction: | Quarry sandstone with corner blocks | |
| Place: | Soultz-Haut-Rhin | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 53 '12.5 " N , 7 ° 13' 39" E | |
| Height: | 271 m | |
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The Bucheneck castle (French: Château du Bucheneck ) is a former moated castle near Soultz-Haut-Rhin (German: Sulz ) in Alsace . It is under monument protection as a monument historique .
history
The Bishop of Strasbourg was the beginning of the 13th century in the north of Soultz (since 1079 owned by the Bishop of Strasbourg) instead of a mansion built a small castle. In 1249 Soultz was raised to town and seat of the episcopal Vogts. From 1251 the castle was a fiefdom and was first mentioned in a document in this context. The lords of Pfaffenheim were feudal lords . But in 1289 it came back into the possession of the bishop. He had the castle fortified in order to protect the northern suburbs of Soultz. In the 16th century the castle was redesigned. During the Thirty Years' War it was badly damaged when the city was sacked by Maximilian I's troops and was not renovated until the beginning of the 18th century, although Bishop Armand I Gaston Maximilien de Rohan-Soubise decided in 1719 to lay down the castle.
The French Revolution ended the rule of the bishops over the city of Soultz. This also marked the end of the castle as the seat of the bailiff. Workshops moved into the building. A factory was still housed in the castle at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1969 the building was converted into a residential building. In 1976 the city bought the castle and began restoring the building the following year. Since 1990 it has been the seat of the city museum.
architecture
The castle was originally surrounded by an approximately circular moat. In addition, the property was protected by a fortification wall. The main building of the castle is a three-storey building made of quarry sandstone with segmented arched windows on the ground floor and tall rectangular windows on the upper floors. Retaining walls support the ground floor, and a steep hipped roof covers the structure. You enter the building through a round arch portal on the back of the basement, which protrudes high from the ground. There is a large hall on the ground floor. There are smaller rooms on the two upper floors and two attic floors above.
A narrow extension with a half-timbered gallery on the upper floor was built in the northwest. In the corner between the extension and the main house, a polygonal stair tower was added in the 16th century. In it sits a renaissance portal with decorative figures and a keel arch. Above it sits a coat of arms with the episcopal coat of arms. A quarter-circle building is attached to the annex, which dates from the 19th century, but which probably used an older outer wall.
literature
- Dominique Toursel-Harster, Jean-Pierre Beck, Guy Bronner: Alsace. Dictionnaire des monuments historiques. La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg 1995, pp. 428-430
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry no. PA00085679 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)