Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Château du Grand Arnsbourg
Baerenthal, Moselle, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, classified (classé)
- Protection
- classé MH
- Extent of protection
- Les ruines du château (cad. 14 1) : classement par arrêté du 22 novembre 1994
- Protection dates
- 1994/11/22 : classé MH
- Type
- château
- Main period of construction
- 12e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété de l'État
- Address
- Dans la forêt domaniale de Philippsbourg
- Lieu-dit
- Forêt domaniale de Philippsbourg
- Commune
- Baerenthal
- Département
- Moselle
- Region
- Grand Est
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.95032, 7.56043
- Mérimée reference
- PA00106728
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1607 map "Alsatia Inferior" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Château édifié au 12e siècle sur ordre de Frédéric le Borgne, duc de Souabe et d'Alsace, qui fit construire une série de forteresses destinées à protéger sa résidence de Haguenau ; quelques travaux au milieu du 14e siècle ; totalement démantelé au cours de la guerre de Trente Ans.
English translation
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History
Castle built in the 12th century on the orders of Frederick the One-Eyed, Duke of Swabia and Alsace, who had a series of fortresses built intended to protect his residence of Haguenau; some work in the middle of the 14th century; totally dismantled during the Thirty Years' War.
Nearby in the register
- Maisonmaison2 mi
- Église mixte d'Oberbronnéglise2 mi
- Maisonmaison2 mi
- Ruines du château de Wasenbourgchâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.