Pflixburg
| Pflixburg | ||
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 Pflixburg - keep |
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| Alternative name (s): | Château du Pflixbourg, Plixburg | |
| Creation time : | 1212-1219 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | imperial | |
| Construction: | granite | |
| Place: | Wintzenheim | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 4 '1.5 " N , 7 ° 15' 15.6" E | |
| Height: | 454 m | |
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The Pflixburg (French Château du Pflixbourg , German also Plixburg , actually Blicksburg ) is the ruin of a medieval hilltop castle near Wintzenheim in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace , a good eight kilometers west of Colmar .
location
The Pflixburg is located on the eastern edge of the Vosges at an altitude of 454 meters on a granite knoll protruding from the south into the Münstertal . It monitors the valley exit and the western foreland of the city of Colmar in the Upper Rhine Plain . In the south-east it is dominated by the Hohlandsberg Castle, a good 200 meters higher . The Pflixburg can be reached via a short walk from a car park on the Route des cinq châteaux (Five Castle Road). As an open ruin, it is accessible at all times.
history
The castle hill was possibly settled as early as the Bronze Age. The castle was built between 1212 and 1219 by order of Frederick II as a Staufer base on the Upper Rhine . It was first mentioned as Blickisberc on May 7, 1220 in a deed of donation from Reich Ministerial Friedrich von Schauenburg . In 1276 the Pflixburg was the headquarters of the Upper Alsatian governor Konrad Werner III. from Hattstatt . King Adolf von Nassau pledged the castle to the Üsenberger in 1298 . Further pledges of the castle, which was now increasingly losing importance, were made in 1316 to Otto IV. Von Ochsenstein , 1330 to King John of Bohemia and 1375 to the Lords of Hus . In 1430 King Sigismund gave it to his Vice Chancellor Kaspar Schlick , who sold it to Maximin I. Smassmann von Rappoltstein in 1434 . The castle was subsequently an occasion for a feud between the Hattstattern and Rappoltsteiners, but it was apparently not destroyed, but given up by the Rappoltsteiners. In the years 1864, 1983 and 2006 renovations took place on the ruin, which has been under monument protection as Monument historique since 1968 .
investment
The Pflixburg consists of an almost completely preserved circular wall in granite ashlars on an elongated, heptagonal ground plan of around 70 × 40 meters. The complex is dominated by a 23-meter-high, now inaccessible, round keep . The residential and commercial buildings, which have only survived in small remnants, were based on the curtain wall, which means that the complex corresponds to the type of the Randhausburg . The castle was surrounded by a moat all around . Unique in Alsace is the arrangement of the castle gate (which has now disappeared) at the end of a 12-meter-long, rising gate lane. A vaulted cistern carved out of the rock is also well preserved (area 5 × 7 meters, height 5 meters).
literature
- Thomas Biller, Bernhard Metz: The late Romanesque castle building in Alsace (1200-1250) (= The castles of Alsace. Architecture and history. Vol. 2). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-422-06635-9 , pp. 383–389.
- 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. 252-253.
Web links
- Château de Pflixbourg at burgenwelt.org
- Pflixbourg at kastel.elsass.free (French)
- Château de Pflixbourg at richesheures.net (French)
- Pflixburg at etrossi.de ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (German)
- Château de Pflixbourg at j57oihy.blogspot.com (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ The battle of Göllheim am Hasenbühl on July 2, 1298. breisgau-burgen.de, accessed on July 30, 2020 .
- ↑ See Biller / Metz 2007, p. 385.