Philippsburg Castle (Philippsbourg)

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Philippsburg Castle is an abandoned castle in the municipality of Philippsburg , Canton Bitche , Moselle Department . The name of the castle was transferred to the settlement.

history

In 1564, the heirs of Balthasar von Falkenstein sold their rights to Falkenstein Castle to Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg .

Two months after the acquisition, Falkenstein Castle burned down completely on April 19, 1564. Count Philipp decided to build a castle in the valley of the Falkensteinbach near the Lieschbach settlement. The foundation stone was laid on August 11, 1566.

Next to the new house there was a beautiful pond, which he had built there, a dairy and a mill:

“Philippsburg. a beautiful lust and Jaghauß / samb in a beautiful garden and Weyher doran / has the Wolgeborn Philips Graff zu Hanaw / Herr zu Lichtenberg / the older born from the ground up / and named Philipsburg after jrer Genaden "

- Bernhart Hertzog : Chronicon Alsatiae

The castle was destroyed during the Thirty Years War in 1633 and was not rebuilt afterwards. The ruins were torn down in the 19th century, the stones were sold and the pond drained. Spolia has been installed on house number 2 in rue du Château .

supporting documents

  1. ^ Johann Georg Lehmann : Documentary history of the county Hanau-Lichtenberg , Volume 2, Mannheim 1863, p. 471
  2. ↑ Jean-Michel Rudrauf: Philippsburg I . In: Jürgen Keddigkeit , Ulrich Burkhart, Rolf Übel (eds.): Palatinate Castle Lexicon. Vol. IV.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. 128–130.
  3. ↑ Bernhart Hertzog : Chronicon Alsatiae , Strasbourg 1592, book 3, p. 50 f.

Coordinates: 48 ° 59 ′ 7 ″  N , 7 ° 33 ′ 45 ″  E