Wineck Castle (Dambach)
| Wineck Castle | ||
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 Wineck castle ruins |
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| Creation time : | 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, Felslalge | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Dambach | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 0 '49.1 " N , 7 ° 39' 43.6" E | |
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The Burg Wineck (French Château de Wineck ), also called Windeck , is the ruin of a small medieval hilltop castle above the Winecker valley near Dambach in Alsace and belongs to the rock castle type .
history
According to archaeological findings, the castle was built in the 13th century. The castle is first mentioned in 1338 as Hauß Windecken owned by the knight Johann Marsilius von Saarbrücken. In 1517 Wolf Eckbrecht von Dürckheim received the castle together with Schöneck Castle .
The castle was probably destroyed together with Schöneck Castle in 1680.
Since December 30, 1985 it has been under monument protection as Monument historique .
description
The ruins of Burg Wineck are 368 meters above sea level. There are only a few remains of the wall of the lower castle on the east side of the rock. The upper castle is freely accessible and can only be reached with climbing gear. The castle was released for climbing, but with consideration for the archaeological relics. A rock space and remains of the tower and the shield wall have been preserved on the upper castle .
Wineck Castle may have belonged to Wittschlössel Castle on the same ridge .
literature
- Thomas Biller, Bernhard Metz: The early Gothic castle building in Alsace (1250-1300) (= The castles of Alsace. Architecture and history. Vol. 3). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-422-06132-0 , pp. 275-278.
- Jean-Michel Rudrauf: Le château de Windeck (Dambach) - Etude du site et bilan d'une intervention archéologique. In: Châteaux forts d'Alsace . Vol. 6, 2004, ISSN 1281-8526 , pp. 5-36.
- Jean-Michel Rudrauf: Windeck. In: Jürgen Keddigkeit , Ulrich Burkhart, Rolf Übel (eds.): Palatinate Castle Lexicon. Volume 4.2: St-Z (= contributions to the history of the Palatinate . Vol. 12.4.2). Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern 2007, ISBN 978-3-927754-56-0 , pp. 341–351.
- 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. 349.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudrauf, Windeck , p. 342.
- ^ Burg Wineck in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French), accessed on July 30, 2009.
- ↑ Information board at the castle