Dagsburg (Alsace)
| Dagsburg | ||
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 The ruins of the Dagsburg |
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| Alternative name (s): | Château de Dagsbourg | |
| Creation time : | around 1150 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Eguisheim | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 2 '21.5 " N , 7 ° 16' 22.5" E | |
| Height: | 575 m | |
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The Dagsburg ( French Château de Dagsbourg ) in Alsace is the ruin of a hilltop castle in the north-east of France and the younger of two structures with this name, which are almost 70 km apart. The older one is the Dagsburg in today's Lorraine .
Geographical location
The Dagsburg lies at an altitude of 575 m in the Upper Alsatian Vosges in the district of the municipality of Eguisheim ( German: Egisheim , 3 km north-northeast) 1 km northwest of the municipality Husseren-les-Châteaux (German: houses ) and 7 km southwest of Colmar .
The triple group of castles Hoh-Egisheim, to which the Dagsburg belongs, is called in the region Les Trois Châteaux d'Eguisheim or the three exes . These were built on one and the same ridge. From northwest to southeast, Dagsburg, Wahlenburg ( ⊙ ) and Weckmund Castle ( ⊙ ) follow one another over a distance of about 120 m ; Wahlenburg and Weckmund Castle are within the boundaries of Husseren-les-Châteaux. The three castles of the Dahner Burgengruppe in the southern Palatinate part of the Wasgau are arranged in a similar way.
history
The Drei Exen were built in close proximity to each other in the 11th and 12th centuries, the Dagsburg, the youngest of the three castles, around 1150. It was named in memory of the marriage between Hugo at the end of the 10th century VI. (960-1049), Count im Nordgau and Count von Egisheim , and Countess Heilwig (964-1046) from the older Dagsburg of the same name in what is now Lorraine. A later son of the couple, Bruno von Egisheim-Dagsburg, was born in Worms in 1048 as Leo IX in the Wahlenburg castle, which was still used as a residence for the Egisheimers at that time . elected Pope and served until his death in 1054.
After the main line of the Alsatian noble family died out in the 13th century, the younger Dagsburg came to the diocese of Strasbourg . It remained in his property until the 15th century.
Then the castle came back into the possession of an Egisheimer, namely the knight Peter von Egisheim . This was a descendant of Count Hugo VI, the father of Pope Leo IX via a branch line. Peter von Egisheim was suspected of being a robber baron . In the spring of 1466, he also took on Hermann Klee , a miller from the city of Mulhouse , 35 km south of Dagsburg , who was in dispute with the latter because of an actually low monetary claim. The granting of asylum was the reason for the Six Plappert War. In the course of this, the Dagsburg was attacked by Mülhausen's troops, captured on Corpus Christi 1466 and then destroyed. Knight Peter escaped, but the miller and some of his friends were captured and executed . The castle has been in ruins since then.
literature
- Thomas Biller, Bernhard Metz: The castles of Alsace - architecture and history. Volume 1: The beginnings of castle building in Alsace (until 1200) . Ed .: Alemannic Institute Freiburg i. Br. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-422-07439-2 , p. 347-350 .
- Fritz Bouchholtz: Castles and palaces in Alsace . Wolfgang Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-8035-8024-2 .
- 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. 137-138 (French).
- Christian Wilsdorf: Le château de Haut-Eguisheim . In: Session. Archéologique de France Congress . tape 136 , 1978, ISSN 0069-8881 , pp. 154-175 (French).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Christian Wilsdorf: Le château de Haut-Eguisheim , p. 161.
- ↑ Haut-Eguisheim. kastel.elsass.free.fr, accessed on March 31, 2015 (French).