Hohlandsberg Castle
| Hohlandsberg Castle, Château du Haut-Landsbourg |
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 Hohlandsberg - View of the inner courtyard and the upper castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Haut-Landsbourg | |
| Creation time : | 1279 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, summit location | |
| Conservation status: | partially rebuilt | |
| Construction: | granite | |
| Place: | Wintzenheim | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 3 '36 " N , 7 ° 16' 9" E | |
| Height: | 650 m | |
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Hohlandsberg Castle ( Hohlandsburg , French: Château du Haut-Landsbourg ) is a medieval castle near Wintzenheim in Alsace ( Haut-Rhin , Grand Est region ), a good seven kilometers west of Colmar .
location
The complex, visible from afar, is enthroned as a summit castle at a height of 650 meters on the eastern edge of the Vosges . It monitors the exit of the Munster Valley into the Upper Rhine Plain . The view extends far over the Rhine Valley to the Kaiserstuhl , to Strasbourg and Basel as well as to several neighboring castle ruins (including Pflixburg , Drei Exen ). Hohlandsberg can be reached via a short walk from a car park on the Route des cinq châteaux (Five Castle Road). The castle is open from Easter to mid-November and there is a fee to enter.
history
There was already an extensive fortification on the castle hill in the late Bronze Age (1300 to 750 BC). The castle was started in 1279 by Colmar mayor Siegfried von Gundolsheim , but fell to the Habsburgs in 1281 , who expanded it generously. In the 14th century the castle was pledged several times before it came to the Counts of Lupfen as a fief in 1410 , who expanded it further. The castle and rule of Hohlandsberg fell in 1563 to General Lazarus von Schwendi , advisor to the Emperors Charles V and Maximilian II , who had the castle modernized. In 1633 the castle was occupied by the Swedes during the Thirty Years War , and in 1637 it was destroyed by French troops. Listed as a historical monument since 1840 , Hohlandsberg has been partly renovated and partly rebuilt since 1985 under the leadership of the Haut-Rhin département , and has served as a backdrop for cultural events ever since.
investment
Hohlandsberg consists of a small upper castle, which has been archaeologically explored since 1987, and a 96 by 66 meter, almost rectangular lower castle, which is surrounded by a circular wall up to 14 meters high and over two meters thick with tourelles and defensive core . Several residential and farm buildings lean against this wall inside, some of which were reconstructed in the course of restoration work based on old findings and views. Access to the castle is on the north side, which is reinforced with a pentagonal bastion from the time of Schwendi. The castle walls are built entirely from the granite .
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. 155–162.
- Jacky Koch: Landisperch castrum sculteti columbarium. Le noyau originel du château du Hohlandsbourg (1279–1281) . In: Châteaux forts d'Alsace . Vol. 16, 2017, ISSN 1281-8526 , pp. 3-20.
- 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. 139-141.
Web links
- www.chateau-hohlandsbourg.com (Official website, French, German, English)
- Hohlandsberg on burgenwelt.org (outdated)
- Hohlandsbourg on kastel.elsass.free (French)
- Description of the castle (French)