Château de Wineck

The Château de Wineck is a ruined castle in the Wineckerthal quarter of the commune of Dambach in the Bas-Rhin département of France. It has been listed since 1985 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.

The castle was built around 1300 for the Windstein family. It was without doubt intended as an observation post to complete the defensive system of the nearby Château de Schœneck.

It was dismantled at the end of the 17th century on the orders of the King of France.

Built on a rocky peak, all that remains of the castle are part of the dressed stone walls and the corners of the polygonal keep, serving originally to protect a modest home that has since disappeared.

The castle is reached through a gallery cut into the rock, with a door halfway up the cliff. The lower courtyard, on the eastern side, is enclosed by a partly conserved enceinte.

Text adapted from “Château de Wineck” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Château de Wineck ranks #5,959 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #439 of the 525 mapped in France. Founded 1275, it is older than 67% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 861 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. 21 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Kaiserslautern, 49 km away. It is one of the 57 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Alsace. It is stop 6 of 32 on the Alsace castle route, Wissembourg to Mulhouse. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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