Ruines du château Petit-Arnsberg-Obersteinbach/France
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N 49° 02.317 E 007° 41.417
32U E 404279 N 5432574
A small rock castle above Obersteinbach.
Waymark Code: WMN16V
Location: Grand-Est, France
Date Posted: 12/05/2014
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The castle is documented only since the 14th century detectable, the existing masonry but would for a development in late Hohenstaufen period (min. Mid-13th century.) speak. At the castle were the lords of Wasigenstein who had the castle as a fief of the Abbey White Castle in possession. 1335 castle is under siege as hiding the Robber Baron Friedrich von Wasigenstein and conquered.
From 1360 belonged to the lords of Ochsenstein, change in the sequence often the owner. By 1400, the Lords of Dahn (Than) have the castle as a fief. Friedrich von Dahn sold in 1420 half of the castle of Ludwig von Lichtenberg. To 1483 Lords of Adelsheim have the castle as a fief. After 1485 The castle is in the mode of inheritance in the ownership of the Counts of Zweibrücken-Bitsch. These can be fully renovate the castle from 1494. After they died, the Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg inherit the castle.
Through various vassals, including Cornelius von Hanau is the castle by the treaties of 1604 and 1606 the Count Johann Reinhard I of Hanau-Lichtenberg. During the Thirty Years' War the castle was destroyed in 1635 and since then has been a ruin.
Dénomination de l'édifice (from Merimee DB): château
Localisation (from Merimee DB): Obersteinbach
Adresse de l'édifice (from Merimee DB): Alsace ; Bas-Rhin ; Obersteinbach
Siècle de la campagne principale de construction (from Merimee DB): 14e siècle
Date de versement de la notice (Merimee DB): 06/16/1993
Relevant Website: [Web Link]
Photo with MH logo pictured included?: no
Précision sur la protection de l'édifice (from Merimee DB): Not listed
Référence de la notice (from Merimee DB): Not listed
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