Dagsburg (Lorraine)
| Dagsburg | ||
|---|---|---|
 Dagsburg on an engraving by Matthäus Merian (1663) |
||
| Alternative name (s): | Dagsbourg, Château de Dabo | |
| Creation time : | before 950 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Dabo | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 38 '56.5 " N , 7 ° 14' 43" E | |
| Height: | 664 m | |
|
||
The Dabo ( French Dagsbourg or Château de Dabo ) in Lorraine is an Outbound rock castle in the northeast of France and the older of two plants that name, the nearly 70 km apart. The younger is the Dagsburg in Alsace .
geography
_(2).jpg)
The Dagsburg castle is located in the north-western Vosges in the Sarrebourg district above the village of Dabo ( Vogesian pronunciation for Dagsburg ) at an altitude of 664 m on the plateau of the 30 m high sandstone rock Rocher de Dabo . The distance to Strasbourg in the southeast is about 40 km, to Sarreguemines in the north it is 60 km. The area is part of the Moselle département in Lorraine , and the border with Lower Alsace , to which the castle belonged in the Middle Ages , runs directly to the east today.
history
Establishment and name
In the first half of the 10th century, Count Eberhard, a Duke of Alsace from the Etichonen family , had the Dagsburg built, the name of which reflects the spelling of Dachsburg at the time.
Development and destruction
The land around the village of Dabo formed the small county of Dagsburg in the Middle Ages , whose rule changed frequently as a result of inheritances, alliances and marriages.
Relatives were established towards the end of the 10th century with the later builders of Dagsburg in Upper Alsace , which is located almost 70 km to the south and is at least 200 years younger . At this time Hugo VI married. (960-1049), Count im Nordgau and Count von Egisheim , and Countess Heilwig (964-1046) from Dagsburg, now in Lorraine. A later son, Bruno von Egisheim-Dagsburg (1002-1054), was named Leo IX in 1048 . elected Pope in Worms . Apparently based on the name of Heilwig's home castle, the Dagsburg, built around 1150 in Upper Alsace, was given the same name.
In 1241, Count Friedrich III. from the Palatinate noble family of the Leininger in the course of an inheritance the ownership of the Lorraine Dagsburg including the surrounding county and named his line from then on Leiningen-Dagsburg . A later descendant was Count Christian Carl Reinhard von Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (1695–1766).
In 1679 the French "Sun King" Louis XIV had the Dagsburg razed ; she has been Burgstall ever since.
chapel
In 1828 a chapel in honor of the canonized Pope Leo IX was built on the rocky plateau . built, whose mother came from the Lorraine Dagsburg. Due to the dilapidation, the chapel was replaced by a neo-Romanesque new building between 1889 and 1892 , which has survived to this day.
St. Leo Chapel on the Rocher de Dabo
Pope Leo IX , Statue at the chapel
literature
- Thomas Biller, Bernhard Metz: The castles of Alsace - architecture and history. Volume 1: The beginnings of castle building in Alsace (until 1200) . Published by the Alemannic Institute Freiburg i. Br., Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-422-07439-2 , pp. 240–247.
- 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 , pp. 64-65 ( French ).
Web links
- Dabo tourist office: DABO, the rock, the story ( Memento from April 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ "Da" for Dags and "bo" for Burg , like Sabo for Saarburg / Sarrebourg or Strabo for Strasbourg / Strasbourg.