Old Castle (Einöd)
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 Floor plan of the residential tower of the Old Castle (1928) |
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| Creation time : | 900 to 1000 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Homburg - desert | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 15 '56 " N , 7 ° 18' 55" E | |
| Height: | 217 m above sea level NN | |
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The Old Castle at Homburger district Einöd in Saarland is an Outbound salierzeitliche Turmhügelburg (moth).
description
The castle was in the corridor in the Kälberwiesen near the confluence of the Schwarzbach and the Blies, and today it has disappeared without a trace.
Excavations carried out by the curator Karl Klein in 1928 uncovered the foundations of a longitudinally rectangular residential tower divided into three parts . On the south side there was a rectangular extension, perhaps a lavatory shaft similar to that at Castle Schlössel near Klingenmünster. In addition, two Romanesque column shafts with cube capitals and combat stones were found in the rubble . These probably belonged to the double windows on the upper floor of the tower.
Klein dated the complex in the middle of the 10th century, but according to Böhme ( see literature ) it was more likely that it was built in the Salian period, i.e. in the 11th century.
Fragments of Roman reliefs walled up as spolia , which were also found in 1928, suggest that the burial ground belonging to the Roman vicus of Schwarzenacker or a Roman sanctuary had existed at the site of the castle or in its vicinity . Two of these reliefs are exhibited in the neighboring Roman Museum in Schwarzenacker .
literature
- Horst Wolfgang Böhme (HG): Castles of the Salier period , part 2, Sigmaringen 1991.
Web links
- Die Einöder "Burg" Information about the castle at homburg-einoed.de
- Geoportal Saarland with digitized land map 1: 2000 of the district Einöd
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the community . The location of the excavation is found there in the following order: “The place” → “History” → “The castle” with the note at the end of the text: Oskar Wolf property, Gewann In den Kaelberwiesen, parcel no. 1816/1818 . Today these numbers are unfortunately replaced by 4xxx numbers.