Osthausen Castle

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Osthausen Castle in winter

The Osthausen Castle ( French Château d'Osthouse or Château des Zorn de Bulach ) is a renaissance temporal surge in the Alsatian town Osthouse ( German  Osthausen ) in the Bas-Rhin .

In the 15th century, the Zorn von Bulach family erected a new building on the foundations of an older predecessor complex, which was expanded by a wing in the 16th century and thus expanded into today's two-wing complex. This remained in the family's possession until the 1960s, before it was inherited by Nicolas de Sonnenberg.

Osthausen is the only moated castle in Alsace whose moat still has water today. It has been classified as a Monument historique since March 15, 1983 .

history

Etching after a watercolor by Louis Laurent-Atthalin, 1870

Osthouse belonged to the territory of the imperial knighthood in the 14th century . Emperor Sigismund lent half of the place to Rudolf Zorn in 1436. Six years later Nikolaus Zorn von Bulach received the other half from Emperor Friedrich III. Her family had already owned property there before, because on the right bank of the Ill there was still a hill of a high medieval moth, which was an allodial of the anger of Bulach, until 1968 . The family originally came from the Strasbourg patriciate and provided numerous city masters there. Between 1442 and 1457, she began to build a new castle on the foundations of a previous complex, which probably dates back to the 14th century. After the completion of the castle, the Zorn von Bulach gave up their old tower hill castle on the opposite bank of the river in the 15th century. Not only the building, but also a fish pond and a vegetable garden are guaranteed for 1457 .

Georg Zorn von Bulach, advisor to King Charles V , changed the building of his ancestors in 1558 and added a second wing of the building at right angles in 1552 or 1570. The interiors of this second wing were modernized in the 18th century under Anton-Joseph Zorn von Bulach, diplomatic advisor to Cardinal Louis René Édouard de Rohan-Guéméné , and given a new roof. During the Second Empire , Baron Zorn von Bulach was chamberlain to Emperor Napoleon III. and received the Empress Eugénie at his castle in Osthausen . On this occasion he gave her the famous bronze statue of her son Napoléon Eugène Louis and his dog Nero by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux as a souvenir, which can be seen today in Compiègne Castle .

After the death of the last Baron Stanislas Zorn von Bulach, Mayor of Osthouse, the plant came to Nicolas de Sonnenberg in 1963, because Stanislas' mother was born de Sonnenberg.

description

The listed castle stands on the southern edge of the village on the left bank of the Ill, which feeds the complex's moat. The two-wing building stands on a square island, which is bordered on two sides by the current castle and on the other two sides by the remains of a curtain wall . The remains of the wall - as well as the four polygonal foundations of the former corner towers - belong to a previous installation. The castle island can be reached from the west via a stone bridge. It leads to a gate with loopholes from the 16th century, the arched portal of which is flanked by two semicircular towers made of bricks . The two Flankierungstürme have on the outside Haustein - reliefs that the locksmith Bauer Georg anger of Bulach and his wife Ursula von Landsberg show. The two figures kneel on sarcophagi carried by elephants. The reliefs used to be in the castle chapel . Inside the two towers are grave monuments of members of the Zorn von Bulach family, including the tombstone of the provost Hugo Zorn von Bulach, who died in 1321 , which was originally installed in the Strasbourg Jung Sankt-Peter church and has been kept in the north entrance tower since 1900.

View from the northeast

The two-storey building wings of the palace delimit the south-west and south-east side of the palace island. The western of the two wings is the older and basically dates from the 15th century, but was changed in 1558. The corresponding year in the lintel of the front door is evidence of this . The high, two-story roof of this wing has six portholes on both long sides . The two western outer corners of the southwest wing are marked by round corner towers with kinking, polygonal helmets . At its south end, a younger south-east wing from the 16th century joins at a right angle. This was built directly into the moat, while the western part is set back a little towards the courtyard. To the northeast it has a stepped gable typical of the Renaissance . The roofs of both wings are provided with red and green glazed tiles covered, forming a diamond-like pattern. Sandstone and quarry stone were used for the masonry of the building . In the corner facing the courtyard is a narrow, round stair tower that shows the coats of arms of the Zorn von Bulach and Kageneck families . The round fountain in the castle courtyard also has coats of arms, this time the wrath of Plobsheim and the von Sonnenberg family.

A Gothic baptismal font and a wooden Madonna from the 16th century in the castle chapel are remarkable. The Renaissance-era, painted beamed ceiling in a room on the ground floor is also valuable in terms of art history. It originally comes from the Rebmatt Castle in Erstein , which was destroyed in the 1880s .

literature

  • Fritz Bouchholtz: Castles and palaces in Alsace. Based on old templates (= castles, palaces, mansions . Volume 24). Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1962, pp. 93-94.
  • Claude Frégnac: Merveilles des châteaux d'Alsace, de Lorraine, de Champagne, des provinces de Liège, de Limbourg et de Luxembourg . Hachette, Paris 1974, pp. 34-37.
  • Roland Recht (Ed.): Le Guide des châteaux de France. 67 Bas-Rhin . Hermé, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-86665-024-7 , pp. 117-118.
  • Charles-Laurent Salch: Les plus beaux châteaux d'Alsace . Publitotal, Strasburg 1978, pp. 48-49.
  • Charles-Laurent Salch: Nouveau Dictionnaire des Châteaux Forts d'Alsace . Alsatia, Strasbourg 1991, ISBN 2-7032-0193-1 , pp. 237-238.

Web links

Commons : Osthausen Castle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the castle on the website of the Communauté des communes du Rhin , accessed on October 6, 2014.
  2. ^ First entry of the castle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  3. ^ F. Bouchholtz: Castles and palaces in Alsace. 1962, p. 93.
  4. ↑ C.-L. Salch: Nouveau Dictionnaire des Châteaux Forts d'Alsace. 1991, p. 237.
  5. ^ C. Frégnac: Merveilles des châteaux d'Alsace, de Lorraine, de Champagne, des provinces de Liège, de Limbourg et de Luxembourg. 1974, p. 34.
  6. ↑ C.-L. Salch: Les plus beaux châteaux d'Alsace. 1978, p. 49.
  7. ↑ a b C.-L. Salch: Nouveau Dictionnaire des Châteaux Forts d'Alsace. 1991, p. 238.
  8. ^ A b C. Frégnac: Merveilles des châteaux d'Alsace, de Lorraine, de Champagne, des provinces de Liège, de Limbourg et de Luxembourg. 1974, p. 36.
  9. ^ A b Jean-Marie Nick: Le château d'Osthouse. Le charme de la Renaissance ... , accessed October 6, 2014.
  10. ^ A b Walter Hotz: Handbook of art monuments in Alsace and Lorraine. 3. Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1976, p. 193.
  11. ^ R. Recht (Ed.): Le Guide des châteaux de France. 67 Bas-Rhin. 1986, p. 118.
  12. ↑ Second entry of the castle in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '58.5 "  N , 7 ° 38' 21.2"  E