Frönsburg
| Frönsburg | ||
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 The Frönsburg in summer 2006 |
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| Alternative name (s): | Château de Frœnsbourg | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Niedersteinbach | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 2 '13 " N , 7 ° 44' 36" E | |
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The Frönsburg (also called Freundsburg ; French Château de Frœnsbourg ) is the ruin of a medieval rock castle near Niedersteinbach in Alsace .
description
There are still rock cellars and remains of walls in the lower part, the upper part on the castle rock is easily accessible with ladder stairs on the steep sandstone walls. In the upper part of the castle there is a well-preserved rock room. The remains of a hexagonal tower are remarkable. The castle offers a good view of the wooded Steinbach valley and the slopes opposite.
history
In 1269 the castle was first mentioned as belonging to the von Frönsburg family. In 1349 half of it came into the possession of Ludwig von Frundsperg, and one quarter each to that of Siegfried von Löwenstein and Reinhard von Sickingen. Then in 1358 Count Palatine Ruprecht I became feudal lord of the three. A year later the castle was captured and destroyed by Johann von Lichtenberg because of the breach of the peace . The reconstruction was forbidden by Emperor Charles IV . At the end of the 15th century, the ruins of that time went to the Lords of Fleckenstein to be restored in 1481. In 1677 the castle was razed by the French .
literature
- 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. 100-101.
- Jean-Michel Rudrauf, Alexander Thon: Frönsburg . In: Jürgen Keddigkeit , Alexander Thon, Rolf Übel (eds.): Palatinate Burgenlexikon. Vol. 2. F - H (= contributions to the history of the Palatinate ). tape 12.2 , 2002, ISBN 3-927754-48-X , ISSN 0936-7640 , p. 149-161 .
- Alexander Thon: … umb wonderful peace, pious and need of the land. Siege and fall of Palatinate-Alsatian castles in the Middle Ages . In: … threw down in stones / grôze and niht small… sieges and siege systems in the Middle Ages (supplements to Mediaevistik, No. 7), Frankfurt am Main [among others] 2006, ISBN 3-631-55467-2 , pp. 241-268 , here pp. 74–76.
- Alexander Thon (Ed.): "... like a banned, inaccessible magic castle". Castles in the southern Palatinate . 2nd Edition. Regensburg 2005, ISBN 3-7954-1570-5 , pp. 54-57.
