Rosenburg (Alsace)
| Rosenburg | |
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 The Rosenburg on a drawing by Julius Naeher , 1905 |
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| Castle type : | Niederungsburg |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains, ditches, remains in newer parts |
| Place: | Westhoffen |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 36 '17.5 " N , 7 ° 26' 32.8" E |
The Rosenburg ( French Rosenbourg ) is a former Templar castle in the Alsatian municipality of Westhoffen in the French department of Bas-Rhin . The moated castle consisted of a square residential tower , surrounded by a moat and a wall, which was equipped with four bastion towers at its corners.
history
The castle was sold to the von Müllenheim family as an episcopal - Strasbourg fiefdom in 1440 . A line of the Müllenheim named itself after her "von Müllenheim-Rosenberg" and died out in 1684. After the French Revolution , what was now called the Schloss Hofgut. Today only a few remains of the wall and some of the former moats are visible.
literature
- Fritz Bouchholtz: Castles and palaces in Alsace . Weidlich, Frankfurt-Main 1965, p. 72.
- 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. 344–346.
Web links
- Entry of Gilbert Poinsot and Abdessalem Rachedi to the Rosenburg in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- The Rosenburg on burgenwelt.org