Hail lock
| Hail lock | ||
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 Hagelschloss, main castle from the northeast |
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| Alternative name (s): | Waldsberg Castle | |
| Creation time : | late 12th century; first mentioned in 1256 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Ministerials | |
| Construction: | Hunchback cuboid, smooth cuboid | |
| Place: | Ottrott | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 26 '58 " N , 7 ° 23' 22" E | |
| Height: | 588 m | |
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The Hagelschloss (French Château du Hagelschloss ), originally Waldsberg Castle , is the ruin of a medieval hilltop castle in the Alsatian Vosges . It belongs to the municipality of Ottrott in the Bas-Rhin department .
location
The hail lock is as Spur castle to 588 meters on a red sandstone rocks at the northern end of the mountain at the entrance to Hohenburger Hageltal, a right side valley of the Ehn . The two-part system within the so-called "Heidenmauer" belongs to a group of nine castles in an area of a few square kilometers around the Odilienberg , including Birkenfels , Dreistein and Kagenfels . The ruins can be reached on hiking trails from Odilienberg Monastery in the southeast, from Klingenthal in the northeast and from the Ehntal in the west.
history
According to the building findings, the hail castle is dated to the late 12th century. The defense system was probably founded at about the same time as the nearby Landsberg Castle , which was first mentioned in 1200, by Staufer ministerials to control the imperial property around Rosheim and the Hohenburg monastery , which is under Staufer protection . In 1256, the mention of an otherwise unknown Rüdiger von Waldisberc proves the existence of Waldsberg Castle on the grounds of the monastery. In 1359, and perhaps as early as 1260/62, it belonged to the relatives of the Beger and Murnhart families, along with the village of Hohenburgwiller, which was probably lost in the 15th century . In 1377 Ludwig von Amoltern lived there temporarily . Around 1400 the Rathsamhausen and Erbe families each owned half of the castle. Walter Erbe, who had serious conflicts with Strasbourg , attacked representatives of the city in 1405 and arrested them on Waldsberg. As a result, the Strasbourgers besieged the castle in 1406, conquered and destroyed it. The ruin was not rebuilt and its original name has been forgotten over the centuries. It was only Johann Gottfried Schweighäuser and Adam Walther Strobel who identified the ruin, now popularly known as the "Hagelschloss", with the documented Waldsberg Castle in the 19th century. The ruin, which is in danger of collapsing, is privately owned; it is not a listed building .
investment
The Hagelschloss consists of two apparently independent partial castles. A first neck ditch separates the outer bailey from the mountain range. A ramp leads to the entrance, which is in the southwest. There is a piece of wall made of humpback blocks from the late 13th or early 14th century. Otherwise little has been preserved of the outer wall . A wide, deep ditch with a stepped base separates the outer and main castle , which seems to rule out a direct connection between the two. On the east side, under the tip of the rock spur , a second outer bailey provides access to the main castle, where an elongated residential building stood behind a circular wall made of buckled ashlars from the late 12th century. What has been preserved here is, above all, a large arch stretched over a deep rock incision, built in smooth ashlars (similar to the upper castle of Girbaden ), from rock to rock.
literature
- Bernhard Metz: Stations de l'histoire du château de Waldsberg ou Hagelschloss. In: Châteaux forts d'Alsace. Volume 4, 2000, pp. 63-82.
- Jean-Michel Rudrauf: Hagelschloss (Waldsberg). Etude monumentale d'un château en peril. In: Châteaux forts d'Alsace. Volume 4, 2000, pp. 83-104.
- Felix Wolff: Alsatian Castle Lexicon . Reprint of the 1908 edition. Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-8035-1008-2 , pp. 97-98.
Web links
- Hagelschloss / Waldsberg in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Hagelschloss on kastel.elsass.free.fr (French)
- Hagelschloss on burgenwelt.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolff, Burgen-Lexikon , p. 97.
- ↑ Rudrauf, Hagelschloss , p. 101.
- ↑ Metz, Stations , p. 65.
- ↑ Metz, Stations , p. 64.
- ↑ Metz, Stations , p. 66 ff.
- ↑ Metz, Stations , p. 68 f.
- ↑ Metz, Stations , p. 70 f.
- ↑ Metz, Stations , pp. 74 ff.
- ↑ "Hagel" is the result of a blurring of the oronym Halde in Alsatian . See Metz, Stations , p. 63 f.
- ↑ Wolff, Burgen-Lexikon , p. 97 f.
- ↑ There is no corresponding entry in the data record of Base Mérimée (see web links).
- ↑ Rudrauf, Hagelschloss , p. 83.
- ↑ Wolff, Burgen-Lexikon , p. 98.