Hohenfels Castle (Alsace)
| Hohenfels Castle | ||
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 Hohenfels Castle around 1839 |
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| Creation time : | First mentioned in 1369 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Construction: | Humpback cuboid, sandstone | |
| Place: | Dambach | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 0 '12 " N , 7 ° 36' 55" E | |
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The Hohenfels is the ruins of a hilltop castle in the town of Dambach in Alsace and was in 1293 first mentioned.
history
It was owned by the von Ettendorf family until the middle of the 14th century and three quarters of it was sold to Ulrich von Finstingen , an Alsatian governor , in 1369 . In 1383 the castle came through the marriage of Ulrich's daughter Klara with Count Emich VI. von Leiningen is half in his possession. After the citizens of the cities of Strasbourg and Haguenau reportedly destroyed the castle, it was rebuilt and was subject to multiple changes of lords (including Lichtenberg , Ochsenstein , Bitsch , diocese of Strasbourg , Fleckenstein ), which eventually became the common property of the Counts of Hanau in 1514 -Lichtenberg and Zweibrücken-Bitsch brought. Then the castle came into the fiefdom of the Lords of Dürckheim in two phases (1517 von Zweibrücken-Bitsch and 1542 from Count Philipp von Hanau-Lichtenberg ) and was finally burned down by the French in 1679.
Building report
Are preserved even parts of the western wall of the three-story palace and some hewn into the rock chambers and a dungeon. Humpback blocks made of red Vosges sandstone were used as building material .
literature
- Thomas Biller, Bernhard Metz: The early Gothic castle building in Alsace (1250-1300) (= The castles of Alsace. Architecture and history. Vol. 3). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-422-06132-0 , pp. 150–154.
- Jürgen Keddigkeit , Alexander Thon: Hohenfels . In: Jürgen Keddigkeit, Alexander Thon, Rolf Übel (eds.): Palatinate Burgenlexikon . Vol. 2: F − H (= contributions to the history of the Palatinate . Vol. 12.2). Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern 2002, ISBN 3-927754-48-X , pp. 401-411.
- Nicolas Mengus, Jean-Michel Rudrauf: Châteaux forts et fortifications médiévales d'Alsace. Dictionnaire d'histoire et d'architecture . La Nuée Bleue, Strasbourg 2013, ISBN 978-2-7165-0828-5 , pp. 22-24.