Evil castle

Evil castle City of Gerbstedt Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 13 ″ N , 11 ° 39 ′ 42 ″ E
Height :	132 m above sea level NHN
Area :	3.2 km²
Residents :	140
Population density :	44 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1974
Incorporated into:	Rottelsdorf
Postal code :	06347
Area code :	034773

Bösenburg is a district of Gerbstedter village Rottelsdorf and a village in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt .

geography

Fleischbach and buildings in the village

Bösenburg is located in a gorge in the otherwise flat landscape of the Mansfelder Platte . This gorge limits the castle hill in the center on three sides. The village church is also located there. Due to the valley location of Bösenburg, the village is abundant in water, three smaller brooks arise around the village and flow in different places in the village in the Fleischgraben coming from Rottelsdorf and the Fleischbach coming from Burgsdorf , into which the Fleischgraben also flows. The next larger town is Gerbstedt , about 5 km to the northeast, and the next major city is Halle, 30 km to the southeast . The road from Burgsdorf to Freist and the road from Rottelsdorf to Heiligenthal cross in the center of Bösenburg .

history

Bösenburg and its surroundings are rich in prehistoric finds. In addition to a princely grave of the Aunjetitz culture near Helmsdorf (2300–1550 BC), various finds from the time of the Wende have come down to us.

In the early Middle Ages, Bösenburg was the court in northern Hassegau . The so-called Landding had a main town here. Events in Bösenburg are between 1140 and 1183 AD in connection with Count Hoyer III. von Mansfeld and passed down from 1273 in connection with Count Hermann von Mansfeld. In 1183 the place was called Bisiniburg . In 1265 Count Burchard III. von Mansfeld, after a trial in Lantdinc von Beseneborch, took a hoof in Rumpin to the Mehringen monastery .

In the Magdeburg archbishop's feud, after the death of Archbishop Conrad von Magdeburg in 1278 near Bösenburg, there was a battle between Burchard von Schraplau and Drost Gumprecht von Alsleben against probably Mansfeld counts or Regenstein counts.

Until January 1, 2010 the place belonged to the municipality of Rottelsdorf, after its incorporation Bösenburg became a district of the locality (the incorporated municipality) Rottelsdorf.

The castle on the castle hill

The church on the Burgberg near Bösenburg

The castle of the Thuringian king Bisinus is said to have been on the castle hill east of the village . This was probably older than Bösenburg itself. In 1850, the residents of Bösenburg removed the 10-15 foot high wall of the fortification on the castle hill in order to gain soil from it. Numerous urns, weapons and stone tools were found. Today only a few foundations of the castle can be found.

Remains of high stone walls on the castle hill are reported as late as 1790.

The Funkenburg outer bailey was located between the castle hill itself and the village in the valley . This consisted of ramparts, ditches and entrenchments that were destroyed by quarrying activities in the castle hill.

Stonemasonry in Bösenburg

The yellow and white Bösenburg sandstone used to be broken underground in the Burgberg . Some areas of the mountain are marked as dangerous with signs because of the risk of collapse. There is also a deep collapse hole to the west of the castle hill.

The stonecutters from Bösenburg were once well known. Hewn stones were delivered as far as Sanssouci Palace .

Name of the village

There are theories that Bösenburg was once a seat of the Thuringian king Bisinus . Accordingly, Bösenburg means Bisinus Castle .

Attractions

St. Michael village church
Chestnut avenue through the village
Burgberg, from here it is possible to see the whole village

Web links

Commons : Bösenburg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Bösenburg - village, castle hill, St. Michael church, holy width and stonemasonry school

Individual evidence

↑ State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation Saxony-Anhalt: Saxony-Anhalt Viewer . Can be found online at: https://lvermgeo.sachsen-anhalt.de , accessed on: April 23, 2019.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Erich Neuss : Walks through the county of Mansfeld: Saalisches Mansfeld. Flyhead Publishing House. Halle, 1999. pp. 214-234.
↑ StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010
↑ Geopark Harz, Braunschweiger Land, Ostfalen GbR: Bösenburger Steinmetzschule . Can be found online at: https://harzregion.de , accessed April 23, 2019.

[1] State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation Saxony-Anhalt: Saxony-Anhalt Viewer . Can be found online at: https://lvermgeo.sachsen-anhalt.de , accessed on: April 23, 2019.

[Neuß-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Erich Neuss : Walks through the county of Mansfeld: Saalisches Mansfeld. Flyhead Publishing House. Halle, 1999. pp. 214-234.

[3] StBA: Area changes from January 01 to December 31, 2010

[4] Geopark Harz, Braunschweiger Land, Ostfalen GbR: Bösenburger Steinmetzschule . Can be found online at: https://harzregion.de , accessed April 23, 2019.