Rheinegg Castle
| Rheinegg Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Rinegg, Reineck | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Leymen | |
| Geographical location | 47 ° 29 '21.3 " N , 7 ° 28' 59.4" E | |
| Height: | 470 m | |
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The castle Rheinegg even Rinegg or Reineck called, is a Outbound hill fort on the western edge of the mountain Landskron in Leymen in the Haut-Rhin department , near the French border to the Swiss municipalities Bättwil and Hofstetten-Flüh .
history
It is believed that the castle was built by the Zu Rhein family . In any case, she belonged to this family around 1350.
In 1477 the Habsburgs gave the Rheinegg to the Reichenstein Empire as a fief . In 1515, Emperor Maximilian, as a feudal lord, gave permission to demolish Rheinegg Castle and use the stones to convert Landskron Castle into a fortress.
The remains of the castle fell victim to a quarry in 1970.
literature
- Eduard Spielmann: Once again: The origins of the Landskron! In: Annuaire de la Societé d'Histoire du Sundgau, 2000, pp. 97–111.
- Werner Meyer : Castles from A to Z. Burgenlexikon der Regio , Basel 1981, pp. 63–64.
Web links
- Entry on Rheinegg Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
- Château de Reineck at j57oihy.blogspot.com (French)
Individual references / comments
- ↑ see Spielmann p. 101; Spielmann thus contradicts older representations that ascribed the construction of the castle to the Basel family of the Vitztum.
- ↑ see Spielmann p. 101
- ↑ a b see Spielmann p. 99
- ↑ on this quarry in general, see Leymen quarry ( memento of November 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) at pronatura-bs.ch
