Neuwindstein Castle
| Neuwindstein Castle | |
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 Tower of the upper castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Château du Nouveau-Windstein |
| Creation time : | around 1339 |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location |
| Conservation status: | ruin |
| Standing position : | Free nobles |
| Construction: | Humpback cuboid |
| Place: | Wind stone |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 59 ′ 38 " N , 7 ° 40 ′ 41" E |
Neuwindstein Castle (French: Château du Nouveau-Windstein ) is the ruin of a rock castle on a mountain west of the municipality of Windstein in the canton of Niederbronn-les-Bains in the Bas-Rhin department ( France ).
history
It used to be assumed that the castle was built by Wilhelm von Windstein as a fiefdom of the bishops of Speyer after the Altwindstein castle was destroyed in 1332, probably 1339 . This construction news, however, probably relates to the north facility of Altwindstein. The late Romanesque-early Gothic treasure trove of forms in Neuwindstein, however, shows that the castle must have been built in the first half of the 13th century.
In the 14th and 15th centuries it was jointly owned by the Lords of Windstein and other families, such as the Lords of Lichtenberg, the Counts of Leiningen , the Electoral Palatinate and the Eckbrechten von Dürkheim . With Hans Ostertags von Windstein, the Lords of Windstein died out in 1480.
Since the second half of the 17th century the castle was in the sole possession of the Eckebrechte von Dürkheim and was destroyed by the French in 1676 after unsuccessful defense by Colonel Wolf Friedrich von Dürkheim from the Electorate of the Palatinate. There was no reconstruction.
investment
There are still extensive ruins today, such as the (no longer accessible) residential tower of the upper castle with a shield wall , the remains of the lower castle and a barbican .
In contrast to many other rock castles, only a few parts of the castle are carved out of the red sandstone rock in this complex . The castle rock is also not as powerful as that of a typical rock castle. For this, massive walls made of humpback ashlars have been preserved.
literature
- Thomas Biller: The Windstein group of castles and the building of castles in the northern Vosges. Investigations into the formation of rule in the High Middle Ages and the type development of the noble castle in the 12th and 13th centuries (= 30th publication of the architecture department of the Art History Institute of the University of Cologne ). Art History Institute of the University of Cologne, Cologne 1985 ( online ).
- Thomas Biller, Bernhard Metz: The late Romanesque castle building in Alsace (1200-1250) (= The castles of Alsace. Architecture and history. Vol. 2). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-422-06635-9 , pp. 344–359.
- Thomas Biller, Bernhard Metz: Neu-Windstein. In: Jürgen Keddigkeit , Ulrich Burkhart, Rolf Übel (eds.): Palatinate Castle Lexicon . Vol. 3: I − N (= contributions to the history of the Palatinate . Vol. 12.3). Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern, 2005. ISBN 3-927754-51-4 , pp. 779–794.
- 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. 350–353.
- Michel Vogt: The golden age of the Alsatian castles. Ed. Cayelles, Barr 2001, ISBN 2-9509600-1-4 .
- Felix Wolff: Alsatian Castle Lexicon. Weidlich, Frankfurt / Main 1979, ISBN 3-8035-1008-2 .
