Once upon a time Ferrette castle

Ferrette fortress, in Alsace, is 612 metres at its highest point.

It's in ruins, nowadays, but a manuscript described the castle as it was in the Middle-Ages.

We found three main buildings:

• the Oberschloss ("Upper building"), with 11 rooms, kitchens, steam room and cellar. Also, we found a well and a chapel dedicated to Sainte-Catherine;
• the Bailiff's house, with 7 rooms, two kitchens, a stable for three horses and vast cellars;
• Knight's dwelling, with a room flanked by cellars.

The first mention of the castle dates back to 1104, with Frederic I: the man inherited Ferrette land from his father, count of Montbéliard.

He and his descendants would later take the name of Ferrette.

Frederic raised the keep on the foundation of a tower put up by Romans.

In 1324, the castle fell to the House of Austria, when Jeanne de Ferrette married one Hapsburg man.

Emperors Maximilian I and Maximilian II reinforced the fortifications.

Ferrette was demolished and burnt by the Swedish during the Thirty Years War.