En un regard
Le château en bref
Petit-Ringelstein Castle (or Petit-Ringelsberg), in the commune of Oberhaslach, is one of the rare buildings from the Early Middle Ages preserved in Alsace, predating the year 1000. Its attribution remains uncertain: it may have belonged to Anselme de Ringelstein, documented in 1137, or, according to other historians, to the counts of Dabo. Abandoned around 1200, it then served as a stone quarry for the construction of the neighbouring Grand Ringelstein, before being briefly consolidated in 1338 during the siege of Hohenstein Castle by the Bishop of Strasbourg. It surrounds a small summit with a dry-stone enclosure of about 60 x 20 metres.