Beisenburg

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Location of the place Beusenburg in the office of Scharfenstein

The Beisenburg or Poyseburg desert is located in the area of ​​the city of Leinefelde-Worbis in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia .

location

The former place is located about one kilometer south of Beuren below Scharfenstein Castle in the source area of ​​a small tributary to the Rohrbach, a tributary of the Leine . The district comprised around 400 acres of arable land and forest between the places Beuren in the north, the current Rohrbach desert in the east, and Scharfenstein Castle in the south. The district road from Beuren to Kreuzebra passes near the settlement.

History of the Vorwerk

Former manor grounds

In historical documents you can find a variety of spellings for Beisenburg, including Poyse, Poise, Peuse or Beusenburg. The place was first mentioned in 1412 as a Vorwerk below the Scharfenstein Castle, called the Poyseburg, consisting of a Sedelhof , gardens, fields, forest and several ponds. Tile von Bodungen sold his fiefdom at Scharfenstein Castle and the Vorwerk to the brothers Hans, Heinrich, Hermann and Berthold von Wintzingerode . The feudal lord was the respective archbishop of Mainz . Whether the Beisenburg as a direct Vorwerk is considered to Scharfenstein Castle, can not be proven. Around 1577 the Vorwerk Beusenburg with all its possessions was again called a Mainz fief.

At the beginning of the 17th century, two Meier were found on the farm. In 1737 there was a draft contract for sale to Hans Kaspar Hagen . Up until the beginning of the 19th century, Beusenburg formed an independent estate district in the Kingdom of Westphalia and then in the Kingdom of Prussia . In 1836 the estate was finally sold to some farmers in Beuren and the district was incorporated into Beuren. The buildings were then demolished.

Today you can find a formerly fenced area with various trees at the site of the estate, the remains of the building are no longer there, but a historic shaft can still be seen.

Presumed castle location "Altenburg"

Castle area with a small hill

Two (or three) hills lying next to each other are detectable close to the former estate. These hills, with the dimensions of 30 × 35 meters and 10 × 12 meters, can be interpreted as medieval fortifications. In a map from the 18th century, the area was referred to as Altenburg including the ponds , which suggests a moated castle. Even today it is a swampy area in the source horizon of the stream, also known as Sellraine or Seltenreine. It is not known whether the moated castle and the service yard existed at the same time; at the time the Vorwerk was first mentioned, it probably no longer existed. There is no direct written mention of a castle at this point, only the name -burg indicates this. Whether this castle is the castrum David located close to Scharfenstein Castle , which was mentioned in 1303, cannot be proven, possibly the also disappeared Davidsburg is located on the Köpfchen near Beinrode .

literature

  • Josef Reinhold: The Altenburg, a desert moated castle on the site of the Beisenburg suburb below Scharfenstein Castle and south of Beuren. In: Eichsfeld-Jahrbuch 25th year 2017, Verlag Mecke Duderstadt, pp. 39–49
  • Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : The desert areas of the Eichsfeld: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of justice and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. O. Hendel, Göttingen 1903, pp. 75-77

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. O. Hendel, Göttingen 1903, p. 75
  2. ^ Paul Grimm and Wolfgang Timpel: The prehistoric and early historical fortifications of the Worbis district. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte special edition, Worbis 1966, p. 42
  3. ↑ Josef Reinhold: The Altenburg, a desert moated castle on the grounds of the Beisenburg suburb below Scharfenstein Castle and south of Beuren. In: Eichsfeld-Jahrbuch 25th year 2017, Verlag Mecke Duderstadt, p. 44
  4. ↑ Elmar Golland: The castrum David prope Scharfenstein - a lost castle on the Eichsfeld. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte (25) 1983, issue 1, p. 155ff.

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 48 ″  N , 10 ° 16 ′ 43 ″  E