Reichenstein Castle (Alsace)
| Reichenstein Castle | ||
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 Reichenstein castle ruins from the south |
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| Creation time : | after 1220 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, hillside location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Construction: | Corner connections made of sandstone hump blocks, quarry stones made of granite | |
| Place: | Riquewihr | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 10 '38.4 " N , 7 ° 16' 49.1" E | |
| Height: | 425 m | |
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The Burg Reichenstein (French Château de Reichenstein ) is at Riquewihr in Alsace located ruin a hillside castle . It is located at 425 meters above sea level on the southwest slope of the Sembach valley in the Herrenwald 40 meters above the valley floor.
history
The castle is first mentioned in 1255 in the possession of the Lords of Reichenstein. In 1269 the Giselin brothers took possession of the castle, whereupon Rudolf I of Habsburg and the Colmarians took it. The castle was badly damaged in the Basel earthquake in 1356 . In 1457 Castle Reichenstein was given to the Lords of Reichenstein as a fief by Count Ludwig von Württemberg . This is the case until at least 1559, shortly before 1575 the Reichensteiners die out.
description
The ruin consists only of a pentagonal, around 15 meter high keep with a high entrance and is surrounded by a deep ditch . At the foot of the keep, robber graves left two large holes in the masonry in the 19th century. In the northeast of the keep is a small open space on which other buildings may once have stood.
The castle complex has been under monument protection as Monument historique since December 7, 1990 .
literature
- Thomas Biller, Bernhard Metz: The late Romanesque castle building in Alsace (1200-1250) (= The castles of Alsace. Architecture and history. Volume 2). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-422-06635-9 , pp. 390–394.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ André Hugel: Riquewihr before the rule of Württemberg. heinrich-schickhardt-kulturstrasse.de, pp. 5–7 , accessed on July 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Château de Reichenstein in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)