Rockenstuhl Castle
| Rockenstuhl | ||
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 View of the castle hill from the east |
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| Creation time : | after 1100 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, summit location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Schleid (Rhön) and Geisa | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 40 '59 " N , 9 ° 57' 1.2" E | |
| Height: | 529 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Rockstuhl is the ruins of a hilltop castle .
location
The Burgberg Rockenstuhl is a 529 m high basalt cone in the Thuringian Rhön - the so-called Soisberger Kuppenrhön . Today the Rockenstuhl belongs to the urban area of Geisa, before that for a few years it belonged to the Thuringian municipality of Rockenstuhl, which was formed in 1994 . It is located about five kilometers south of the core town of Geisa within sight of the Hessian-Thuringian border.
history
As early as the 12th century, the Fulda monastery built a hilltop castle on the mountain and gave it as a fief to the later lords of Rockenstuhl . The Rockenstuhl was of great strategic importance for the monastery, and from 1327 the castle was the center and seat of the Rockenstuhl Office in Fulda . When in 1265 some of the castle men conspired against the monastery and holed up in the castle, Prince Abbot Bertho II von Leibolz had to recapture it with a siege. Under Prince Abbot Heinrich VII. Of Crane gaps (Craluck) a Holy was 1354 Pankratius chapel dedicated built and maintained by a Vicar Parish Schleid.
In the Renaissance period , the prince abbots of Fulda used the Rockenstuhl as one of their hunting seats. During the Peasants 'War and the Thirty Years' War, the inhabitants of the surrounding villages sought protection behind the walls of the castle. The buildings are said to have been destroyed by fire or lightning strike in 1699, only small remains of the wall remained from the ruins. Some finds that were recovered during construction work and excavations are shown in the Geisa local history museum.
literature
- Adelbert Schröter: Country by the road. The history of the Catholic parishes in the Thuringian Rhön. 3. Edition. St. Benno Verlag, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-7462-0430-5 .
- Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2003, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 211.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.