Pierre-Percée Castle

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Pierre-Percée
Langstein 1755

The Pierre-Percée Castle (German: Langstein or Langenstein ) is a ruined castle in Pierre-Percée in France.

The castle came to the County of Salm through Countess Agnès von Bar ( Bar-le-Duc ) in the 12th century and was destroyed by French-Swedish troops in the Thirty Years' War . At the castle there is a 30 m deep castle well that was carved into the rock.

Above all, the keep has been preserved on a long rocky reef in well-formed humpback blocks . The Pierre-Percée Castle is one of the few Hohenstaufen castle complexes west of the Vosges main ridge, along with Turquestein Castle.

literature

  • 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 , p. 254.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 48 ° 28 ′ 7.8 "  N , 6 ° 55 ′ 29.4"  E