Ilburg
| Ilburg | ||
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 Western enclosure wall (2004) |
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| Alternative name (s): | Ilfeld | |
| Creation time : | around 1150 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Standing position : | Nobles, counts | |
| Place: | Ilfeld | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 34 '47 .5 " N , 10 ° 47' 5.5" E | |
| Height: | 300 m above sea level NN | |
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The Ilburg are today the remains of a hilltop castle at 300 m above sea level. NN on a mountain near Ilfeld in the northern part of the Harztor community in the Nordhausen district . Only small, mostly completely overgrown wall and foundation remnants remain from the high medieval complex.
history
According to local tradition, the castle was built around 1150 by Elgerus de Bilstein , who subsequently called himself Count von Ilfeld . His successor, Adelger von Ilfeld, married Lutrude von Hohnstein around 1162. This couple founded the Count Dynasty of Hohnstein .
Around 1180, as Elger II, he moved his residence to the neighboring Hohnstein Castle . The smaller Ilburg - arguably had become irrelevant from a military point of view and as a place of residence in keeping with one's status - was given up around 1189. Their stones were later used in the construction of the Ilfeld Monastery founded by the Hohnstein Counts .
Structural matters
The towering on a steep mountain peak on the place built castle consisted of a round of keep secured main castle and a stuffed presumably with farm buildings bailey . In the elevated courtyard of the main castle, which was enclosed by a rectangular wall and of roughly rectangular shape, there was little room for residential buildings. The outer bailey, which was only connected to the north and west and had another round tower at the western corner , was completely secured by a defensive wall and the ring moat in front that can still be seen today . The castle was accessed via a gate system believed to be in the northeast.
literature
- Thomas Bienert: Medieval castles in Thuringia. 430 castles, castle ruins and fortifications . Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-631-1 , p. 184: Ilburg .
- Manfred Bornemann: The Counts of Ilfeld. In: Contributions to local history from the city and district of Nordhausen. Volume 25, 2000, ZDB -ID 982697-x , pp. 3-13.
- Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 146: Ilburg .
- Hans Patze , Peter Aufgebauer (Ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 9: Thuringia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 313). 2nd, improved and supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-520-31302-2 , pp. 201-211.
- Paul Becker: Honsteiner research. In: Contributions to local history from the city and district of Nordhausen. Volume 37, 2012, ZDB -ID 20768928 , pp. 23-34.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The original name of the castle could also have been "Burg Ilfeld", as the designation of origin of the first documented Count Adelger von Ilfeld in 1154 shows. In one of the most important sources on the origins of the Ilfeld counts - the report written between 1296 and 1300 by the monk Johannes Caput - the castle is first called Yliborgk and then Ilfeld .
- ↑ Thomas Bienert: Medieval castles in Thuringia . S. 184 .