Wangen Castle (Alsace)
| Wangen Castle | ||
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 Plan from 1749 |
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| Creation time : | 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Ministeriale | |
| Place: | Cheeks | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 37 '1.8 " N , 7 ° 27' 57.2" E | |
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The castle cheeks is an Outbound Stauffer period Wasserburg from the early 13th century in Wangen in Alsace in France .
The castle was laid out on an octagonal floor plan and, together with Eguisheim , Guebwiller and Kilchberg, is one of the few octagonal structures in the Swabian-Alemannic region. A Ministerial Hetzel von Wangen is recorded for 1147 . It cannot be proven whether there was already a castle in Wangen at that time. There are only reliable documents from 1216 onwards. In the following period, the castle quickly lost its importance. In 1444 it was occupied by the Armagnaks and destroyed in 1514 by revolting residents. In 1566 the people of Wangen ( les Wangen ) sold the rights to the Saint-Etienne Abbey in Strasbourg, from which the stones of the castle were finally removed in 1750 for the construction of their Freihof in Strasbourg. Although there are no visible remains of the castle, it has been classified as a monument historique based on archaeological evidence .
literature
- Charles-Laurent Salch, Dictionnaire des châteaux de l'alsace médiévale , Strasbourg 1976
Web links
- «Site de l'ancien château» notice n ° PA00125229, base Mérimée, ministère français de la Culture.