Castle of Hohenfels

The castle of Hohenfels is located at the locality Hohenfels , in the Commune Frenchwoman of Dambach, in the department of the the Low-Rhine.

History

The Château is built at the end of the 13th century and city for the first time towards 1293. It is destroyed first once by the troops of Strasbourg and Haguenau in 1423 then one second time during the Guerre of the Peasants in 1525. This Castle |semi-troglodytique is built on an entablature of sandstone separated from the peak by a dry ditch cut in the rock mass. The Château consisted of six levels and made it possible to supervise the access roads towards the Lorraine. It was undoubtedly altered at the 15th century.

The castle is classified historic building since 1985.

Still visible characteristics

vestiges of the old wall closing the farmyard.
the wall shield out of stones with embossing with broad edging.
the cistern dug in the sandstone and its system of water arrival.
There remains of the farmyard only of the fragments of walls and a cistern.
the western platform preserved some vestiges as well as a room dug in the rock.
the home seigneurial, at the top of the rock is, preserved its northern stone wall of size at embossing on three levels.

It is the first castle of Alsace which was the subject of archaeological excavations undertaken in a scientific way.

Access

In the village of Dambach, to move towards Neunhoffen and to take the path of the Vosgean Club marked out of a yellow cross.

Bonds

official site of the commune

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