Blankenhainer Castle

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Blankenhain Castle

The Blankenhain Castle is located in the city of Blankenhain in the district Weimarer Land in Thuringia .

location

Blankenhain and his castle are quite protected in the valley of the Schwarza , surrounded by the plateaus between the Saale and Ilm . Trade routes from north to south and west to east once crossed here .

history

The castle stands on the site of a high medieval castle. It was built in 1150 on the elevated plateau in the middle of the city. A witness Gottfried von Blankenhain was mentioned as early as 1147. The Lords of Blankenhain are probably a branch line of the Lords of Mellingen. They were vassals of the Archbishops of Mainz from the 13th century and had been here since 1256. After Heinrich, the last of the old gentlemen of Blankenhain, died in 1416, Blankenhain passed into the possession of the brothers Ernst X. and Ludwig I from the family of the Counts of Gleichen . The castle was greatly expanded around 1500. The keep was demolished in the Thirty Years War .

Blankenhain had been in the possession of the Counts of Hatzfeld since 1631 , as Melchior von Hatzfeld , a general in the Thirty Years' War, had acquired it (in addition to Gleichen Castle including the village of Wandersleben , the Niederburg Kranichfeld and the court of Hochheim and the Silesian rule Trachenberg ) . After the fire in 1667, the castle was largely given its present shape between 1680 and 1690 by Countess Hatzfeld. In addition to the medieval vaults, the oldest remaining parts of today's castle date from around 1500.

After the death of Karl Friedrich Graf von Hatzfeld, Blankenhain came to the ecclesiastical Electorate of Mainz in 1793 as a fallen fief . In 1802 the Prussians took possession of Blankenhain. The 13 years of their rule were interrupted by a French administration from 1811 to 1813, during which the rule Blankenhain with the Erfurt state belonged to the Principality of Erfurt . Due to the state treaties of Paris and Vienna in 1815, the rule of Blankenhain and Niederkranichfeld passed to the Grand Duke of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach . The "central building" was erected between 1861 and 1880, replacing the castle wall in its area. In 1919 the castle fell to the State of Thuringia.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Blankenhain  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 700 years of Blankenhain .
  2. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . Jenzig-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , pp. 268/269
  3. ↑ Thomas Bienert: Medieval castles in Thuringia . Wartberg-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-86134-631-1 , p. 343
  4. ↑ Without author: www.burgen-schloesser.net> Germany> Thuringia

Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 36.5 ″  N , 11 ° 20 ′ 32.7 ″  E