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Girsberg Castle à Ribeauville dans le Haut-Rhin

Patrimoine classé
Patrimoine défensif
Demeure seigneuriale
Château fort
Haut-Rhin

Girsberg Castle

    15 Route de Sainte-Marie aux Mines
    68150 Ribeauvillé
Château du Girsberg
Château du Girsberg
Château du Girsberg
Château du Girsberg
Château du Girsberg
Château du Girsberg
Château du Girsberg
Château du Girsberg
Château du Girsberg

Timeline

Moyen Âge central
Bas Moyen Âge
Renaissance
Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1300
1400
1500
1600
1700
1800
1900
2000
1288
Fire by lightning
1304
Assignment to Girsberg
XIIIe siècle
Initial construction
1422
Back to Ribeaupierre
XVIIe siècle
Abandonment of the castle
1841
First historical classification
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Key figures

Famille de Ribeaupierre - Founding Lords Builders and original owners
Chevaliers de Girsberg - Vassels and occupants Castle possessors (1304-1422)
Guillaume de Girsberg - Last Lord of Girsberg Killed in 1422 during an attack
Maximin Ier de Ribeaupierre - Lord rival Involved in the quarrel of 1422

Origin and history

The château du Girsberg, originally called Petit-Ribeaupierre or "Stein" (the Rock), was built in the 13th century by the Ribeaupierre family, at the head of the seigneury since the 12th century. Located at 528 meters above sea level, it was part of a set of three castles protecting Ribeauvillé. After a fire caused by lightning in 1288, he was rebuilt and entrusted in fief to the knights of Girsberg in 1304, whose name he took.

In 1422, a quarrel between Guillaume de Girsberg and Maximin I of Ribeaupierre and Jean de Lupfen led to Guillaume's death in an attack. The castle then returned to the Ribeaupierre, before being abandoned in the seventeenth century. The current remains, including a 13th-century pentagonal dungeon and 14th-century lodges, testify to its architectural evolution. A niche engraved with a tau was discovered there in 1927.

Ranked a historic monument in 1841 and listed in the Official Journal in 1930, the Girsberg illustrates Alsatian feudal history. Its ruins, composed of granite and sandstone, also include a bassyard and a semicircular tower. The site is linked to the legend of the two brothers of Ribeaupierre, strengthening its anchor in the local heritage.

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