Flint castle (alsace)
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 19th century lithograph |
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| Alternative name (s): | To the stone | |
| Creation time : | 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, rocky location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Bellefosse | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 23 '46 " N , 7 ° 13' 3.7" E | |
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The stone castle (French: Château de la Roche ), also called Zum Stein , is the little-known ruin of a rock castle at 820 meters above Bellefosse on a dolerite rock, secluded in a side valley of the Bruche on a foothill of the Champ du Feu in the Vosges in Alsace . It is listed as a Monument à l'inventaire .
history
The castle is said to have been built in the 11th century and destroyed in 1099. A castellanus de Rupe is documented for the year 1178 . The gentlemen Zum Stein were ministerials of Hohenburg Abbey on Mount Odilienberg and for a long time were mistakenly assumed to be the builders of the castle. However, they resided at Dreistein Castle near Mount Odile. The castle was probably only built in the second half of the 13th century by the Lords of Rathsamhausen-Zum Stein, who were in the service of the Hohenstaufen . In 1284 Rudolf and Hartmann von Racenhusen were in dispute with the Lords of Andlau over the ienhald Hochveldes (Champ du Feu). The first documentary mention falls in 1398 as "the purgk zum Stein", in a dispute over a forest area between the Rathsamhauser and the city of Obernai. The manor and later county of Steintal ( Ban de la Roche ) consisted of eight villages and was an imperial fief of the Rathsamhauser until it was transferred to Georg Johann von Veldenz in 1584 . In 1469 there was an eight-day siege of the castle by an alliance between the Bishop of Strasbourg, the Dukes of Lorraine and Austria, the Margraves of Baden and the Lords of Lichtenberg, which ended in the destruction of the castle.
investment
Behind a 50 meter wide moat a brick from Vosges sandstone rises keep on a basalt rocks, which is aimed in a rounded tip against the wing. The tower was never particularly high, as the rock gave it a sufficient height, and is dated to the late 13th century. In the representation of Oberlin, a no longer preserved masonry arch can be seen, which, similar to the castles Hagelschloss and Girbaden, bridged a gap in the rock. Today the rock is accessible via two steep iron stairs.
Nicolas Mengus suspects in his reconstruction of the castle a residential building ( Palas ) leaning against the rock to the north , of which only small remains of walls have been preserved. This was followed by an almost rectangular lower castle ( outer bailey ) with two farm buildings, of which few traces of the wall testify.
literature
- A. Brion: Le chateau de La Roche . Bulletin, 1895.
- Fritz Bouchholtz: Castles and palaces in Alsace. Frankfurt am Main 1962.
- Charles-Laurent Salch: Dictionnaire des châteaux de l'alsace médiévale . Strasbourg 1976.
- Francis Rapp: Le siège du château de la Roche (1469) . L'Essor, n ° 153, 1991.
- Nicolas Mengus: Le château fort de la Roche . L'Essor, n ° 175, 1997.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bouchholtz