Koepfel Castle

Southwest corner of the castle

The castle Koepfel , French Château de Koepfel , the ruins of a hilltop castle in Ottrott in the French department of Bas-Rhin in Alsace . It lies on a ledge of the mountain of the same name. It is a rectangular system. Walls (stone blocks in dry construction), gates and towers can still be recognized from the remains of the wall.

See also

• List of castles, chateaus and fortresses in the Bas-Rhin department

literature

• Nicolas Mengus, Jean-Michel Rudrauf: Châteaux forts et fortifications médiévales d'Alsace . la Nuée bleue, cop, Strasbourg 2013, ISBN 978-2-7165-0828-5 .
• Felix Wolff: Alsatian Castle Lexicon . Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 978-3-8035-1008-2 .

Web links

Commons : Burg Koepfel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Château de Koepfel at j57oihy.blogspot.com (French)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Andreas Silbermann: Description of Hohenburg or the Sanct-Odilienberg, including the surrounding area; New edition . Silbermann, 1835 ( google.de [accessed on August 8, 2018]).
2. ^ Entry on Koepfel Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved December 5, 2018.
3. ↑ Castle images: Koepfel / Ottrott ( Memento from August 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 8, 2018.

Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '40.7 "  N , 7 ° 23' 53.6"  E