Rothenburg (Lorraine)
| Rothenburg | ||
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 Rothenburg castle ruins |
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| Alternative name (s): | Rothenbourg, Red Castle | |
| Creation time : | probably 10th century, first mention in the 12th century | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Philippsbourg | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 1 '28.6 " N , 7 ° 34' 32" E | |
| Height: | 400 m | |
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The Rothenburg (also Rotes Schlössel , French Château de Rothenbourg ) is the ruin of a medieval rock castle near the municipality of Philippsbourg in the Moselle department . It has been in ruins since it was destroyed in the 14th century. The castle is located on a sandstone rock at a height of 400 meters on a foothill of the Rothenberg. Only small remains of the walls, chambers and traces of the terrain, such as the cistern and moat , have survived from the castle .
history
The castle was supposedly built in the 10th century by the Bishop of Strasbourg . It was first mentioned in a document, however, in the 12th century, when it was mentioned as a fiefdom of the Strasbourg bishop. At that time it was handed over to Lorraine and Zweibrücken-Bitsch . Since the lord of the castle, Harnach von Weißkirchen, was guilty of robbery, the castle was destroyed in 1309, 1360 or 1369 by Strasbourg troops and never rebuilt.
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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 , p. 275.
- Jean-Michel Rudrauf: Un château des Vosges du Nord à l′existence éphémère: le Rotenburg (commune de Philippsbourg, Moselle) . In: Châteaux forts d'Alsace . Vol. 16, 2017, ISSN 1281-8526 , pp. 21-38.
- Olaf Wagener, Steffen Bergner, Jean-Michel Rudrauf: Rotenburg. In: Jürgen Keddigkeit , Ulrich Burkhart, Rolf Übel (eds.): Palatinate Castle Lexicon . Vol. 4.1: O − Sp (= contributions to the history of the Palatinate . Vol. 12.4.1). Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern, 2007. ISBN 978-3-927754-56-0 , pp. 320–328.