Name - Chateau du Girsberg
Location - Ribeauville
Department - Haut-Rhin 68
State - ChateauRuin
The Chateau du Girsberg (formerly named Petit-Ribeaupierre) is one of three castles (with the Chateau de Saint-Ulrich and the Haut-Ribeaupierre) which dominates the commune of Ribeauville in the Haut-Rhin departement of France. It stands at an altitude of 528 m.
It was the Lords of Ribeaupierre who built the castle in the XIIIth century, then named Stein (La Roche). They rebuilt it after a fire caused by lightning in 1288.
In 1304, they gave it to their vassals, the knights of Girsberg, from whom the castle took its name.
The Girsbergs kept it until they died out in the XVth century. It was finally abandoned in the XVIIth century.
