Auerbach Castle
| Auerbach Castle | ||
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 Castle tower at Auerbach |
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| Alternative name (s): | Red Tower | |
| Creation time : | First mentioned in 1282 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location, local location | |
| Conservation status: | newly built tower | |
| Place: | Auerbach / Vogtl. | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 30 '29.9 " N , 12 ° 24' 3.4" E | |
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The castle Auerbach , now Red Tower called, is the residue of a Spur castle on a mountain spur in the town of Auerbach / Vogtl. in the Vogtlandkreis in Saxony .
history
The castle was built in the 12th century as part of the eastward expansion as a medieval base to protect Franconian and Thuringian settlers .
The first documentary mention of the castle, which was not a pure manor , was in 1348 as Castrum Urbach with the lord of the castle Conradus de Urbach, a vassal of the bailiffs of Gera , Weida and Plauen . From 1350 it remained in the possession of the bailiffs, who expanded the castle several times. Originally it had a drawbridge that spanned a 17 meter long moat . The tower itself had its high entrance at a height of 12 meters and was originally only accessible via a rope ladder. It was not until 1705 that it was given a second entrance, which was accessible from the attic of the adjacent residential building.
1757 Burg was destroyed by fire of and up to a radical of the keep ablated. In 1849 the factory owner Keffel acquired the ruins and had the ruins rebuilt, greatly modified. The tower received a wooden dome and a wooden spiral staircase and served from then on as a lookout tower . In 1909 the city of Auerbach bought the area and began further renovation and expansion work. The tower was raised and the wooden dome replaced by a tiled roof. On January 15, 1911, the “Schloßschänke” restaurant was opened in the castle building.
description
The former castle area with a diameter of 35 meters has now been completely changed and is partly built over. The lower part of the round 43 meter high castle tower with a new entrance corresponds to the medieval keep , the stump of which has an outer diameter of nine meters. The outer bailey was in the manor area , of which basement rooms are still preserved. On December 7, 1977 the castle area was protected as a ground monument.
literature
- Mueller-Dehn: Castle hike through Saxony , 2006
- Gerhard Cheap, Heinz Müller: Castles - Witnesses of Saxon History . Verlag Degener & Co., Neustadt an der Aisch 1998, ISBN 3-7686-4191-0 , pp. 121-122.
- Hans and Doris Maresch: Saxony's palaces and castles, Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft mbH u. Co. KG, Husum 2004, ISBN 3-89876-159-2
Web links
- The Auerbach Castle Tower, auerbach-vogtlandkreis.de
- Auerbach Castle , bernievancastle.de
- Auerbach Castle , Burgenwelt.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Castle Tower ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the city of Auerbach
