Old Castle (Flinsberg)
| Old castle | ||
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| Creation time : | medieval | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Castle stable, wall and moat remains | |
| Place: | Flinsberg | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 18 '37.7 " N , 10 ° 11' 53" E | |
| Height: | 440 m above sea level NN | |
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The Old Palace is an Outbound medieval Spur castle in Flin in the district of the city Heiligenstadt in Eichsfeld in Thuringia .
location
The castle complex is located about one kilometer southeast of Flinsberg on the spur-like foothills of the Obereichsfelder Muschelkalk plateau at an altitude of about 440 m above sea level. NHN . The narrow ridge falls on three sides (to the west, south and east) with a steep layer of shell limestone into the Rosoppe valley .
history
There are no direct sources of information about the history of the castle complex near Flinsberg. Even an original castle name is no longer passed down, the current name “Old Castle” was created long after the castle fell.
The assumption that this could have been the former Velsecke Castle is probably not correct, Velsecke Castle is likely to be the immediate predecessor of today's Gleichenstein Castle . The local castle grounds would have been rather unsuitable as a count's castle for those von Gleichen due to the dimensions. The area south of Flinsberg up to and including the desert of Ascherode belonged for several centuries to the castle men employed at Gleichenstein Castle and then to the noble family von Tastungen, who lived in neighboring Bernterode . There is no evidence that a Friedrich von Tastungen is said to have built a castle on the Schwarzenstein between Ascherode and Flinsberg in 1223 . The Schwarzenstein was a mountain and forest area in the vicinity, which the treasurer Dietrich von Straussberg had sold to the Anrode monastery in 1297 . Between 1549 and 1676 the Schwarzenstein was mentioned several times in documents, but not in connection with a castle. The area around the Schwarzenstein was then added to the district of Flinsberg.
When the medieval castle was built and when it was abandoned or destroyed is not known. It may have been a royal castle, as it was located above the road connecting the royal courts in Martinfeld and Geisleden. Also, none of the noble families of Eichsfeld claimed ownership in this area. It is not known to what extent it was related to Velsecke / Gleichenstein Castle, which is only two kilometers south-east on a similar hilltop. The area around Flinsberg with the castle did not belong to the administrative area of the castle Gleichenstein, but to the office of Rusteberg . After the castle was abandoned, it served as a quarry for the surrounding residents, as has happened with other castles.
Current condition
On the wooded hilltop, which is part of today's Flinsberg Forest Cooperative, you can still find at least four neck ditches that separate the 200 meter long mountain spur from the plateau at the narrowest point. The main castle was on the last and lowest mountain section. Only a small remnant of the wall and isolated fragments of bricks can be found there. A former well was filled with material from the castle grounds in 1874 after a fatal accident.
Access to the site is via steeper paths from the valley up to the ridge. The area is designated as a ground monument . In 2012, parts of the moats were damaged when building logging paths for forestry work .
literature
- Eduard Fritze, Alfred Sonntag: The desert castle near Flinsberg. In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift . 58th year (2014), issue 2, Verlag Mecke Duderstadt, pp. 41–45
- Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . 2nd expanded and revised edition, Jenzig Verlag, Jena 2003, ISBN 978-3-91014-196-4 . P. 253.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Eduard Fritze: Gleichenstein Castle 1246–1996. Self-published waxedt 1996, p. 12
- ^ Carl Duval: The Eichsfeld or historical-romantic description of all cities, castles, palaces, monasteries, villages and other noteworthy points of the Eichsfeld: a home book for school and home. Sondershausen 1845, p. 325
- ^ A b Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : Die Wüstungen des Eichsfeldes: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of law and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. Göttingen (O. Hendel) 1903, p. 905
- ↑ Jürgen Backhaus: The forest lacks meaningful information on the "Old Castle" near Flinsberg. In: Thüringer Allgemeine from March 12, 2014, accessed on September 3, 2018
Web links
- Entry on Wallburg Flinsberg (Old Castle) in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved September 13, 2018.