Cafarlet
| Cafarlet | ||
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 Cafarlet Castle ruins, 2008 |
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| Alternative name (s): | Kaferlatum, Kafr Lam, Kafarla, | |
| Creation time : | before 1099 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | HaBonim | |
| Geographical location | 32 ° 38 '13.9 " N , 34 ° 56' 3.6" E | |
| Height: | 27 m | |
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The castle Cafarlet (Latin: Kaferlatum , Arabic: Kafr Lam (كفرلام), also Kafr Lab , Kafarla , Capharleth , Kafarletum ) is the ruin of a crusader castle in today's Israel .
location
The castle is located near HaBonim (הַבּוֹנִים) on the Carmel coast , about one kilometer from the sea. Like the nearby Merle Castle , it secured the coastal road between Haifa and Caesarea Maritima in what was then the Kingdom of Jerusalem .
history
The castle is hardly mentioned in medieval documents. It was subordinate to the lord of the nearby rule Caesarea . The architecture of the complex, with its rectangular floor plan as a simple ring castle fortified with towers at the four corners, was already common at the time of the Umayyad Caliphate, which indicates that it was built by Muslims before the arrival of the Crusaders in 1099.
After the Battle of Hattin in 1187, Cafarlet was probably occupied by Sultan Saladin until it was recaptured by the Third Crusade .
In October 1213, the Lord of Caesarea transferred the castle along with two other goods as security for a loan they had granted for 1,000 bezanten to the Hospitaller Order . In 1232 he finally sold the castle to the order for 16,000 Saracen bezanten. The higher price is probably due to the fact that the lord of Caesarea expanded the castle after a Damascus raid on his lands in 1227.
In 1255 the Hospitallers gave the castle to the Knights Templar . In 1265, Cafarlet was conquered by the Mamluks , but apparently recovered by the Crusaders shortly afterwards. In 1291 Cafarlet finally fell into the hands of the Mamluks.
literature
- Judith Bronstein: The Hospitallers and the Holy Land. Financing the Latin East, 1187-1274. Boydell Press, 2005, ISBN 1843831317 .
- Walid Khalidi: All That Remains. The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Institute for Palestine Studies, Washington DC 1992, ISBN 0887282245 .
- Denys Pringle: Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. To Archaeological Gazetteer. Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0521460107 .
Web links
- maxime.goepp.free.fr (French)