Herrenfluh Castle
| Herrenfluh Castle | ||
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 Tower wall |
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| Creation time : | First mentioned in 1250 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Uffholtz | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 50 '34.1 " N , 7 ° 8' 46.7" E | |
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Herrenfluh Castle (French: Château du Herrenfluh ), also known as Herrenflüh , is a ruin of a small rock castle at an altitude of 858 meters on the Route des Crêtes near the Col de Herrenfluh above Uffholtz on the border with Wattwiller in Upper Alsace . It is listed as a Monument à l'inventaire .
history
The castle was built as a fief of the Counts of Pfirt (Ferrette) on the territory of the Murbach Abbey . It is first mentioned in a document in 1250 as Herflu the castle, Hemelins Nortwind fief . In 1312, in a document from Murbach Abbey , a Johan von Sankt Amarin, called Nortwind , appears as the owner of Herfluh, the mountain, the castle stables and the castle . Apparently the castle was already in ruins by this time and was being rebuilt. In 1324 the Habsburgs, as heirs of the pastors, renounced the rights to the fief. During the Hundred Years War the castle was burned down by Armagnaks in 1376 and finally destroyed by Swiss troops in 1468. Due to its location near the front line on the Hartmannswillerkopf , the castle suffered severe damage in the First World War .
investment
The castle, which is only about 15 meters long, stands on a rock pedestal, which is separated from the mountain range by a ditch . The only remaining wall remnant is a wall of a residential tower or keep made of rubble stones . Only the infill masonry can be seen. The sound walls have fallen completely. A large part of the wall collapsed around 1990. On a postcard from the time before the First World War, the wall appears a good bit larger and part of the scarf wall can still be seen.
The castle rock is difficult to access, there is no secure ascent.
literature
- Charles-Laurent Salch, Dictionnaire des châteaux de l'alsace médiévale , Strasbourg 1976
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information in the web link, it says "about 30 years ago"