Auma Castle
| Auma Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | around 1248 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location, local location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Auma | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 41 '56.4 " N , 11 ° 53' 57.8" E | |
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The castle Auma is an Outbound Spur castle just east of the Church of Our Lady in the village Auma in district Greiz in Thuringia .
The castle already existed in the 13th century, because in 1248 an Albert von Auma is mentioned in a document. However, there are no structural remains left on the spot.
history
The complex probably belonged to the neighboring Counts of Arnshaugk and was inherited by the Landgraves of Thuringia when ownership was confirmed in 1328. These enfeoffed the Russians of Plauen with castle and rule . 1485 took over the Albertine line of the Wettin castle and place, but only from 1554 to 1567. Then she was in the hands of Ernestine . In 1815 the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach acquired Auma.
State of the location of the castle
There are no visible remains of the former castle at the site of the rock spur . It stood on an 8 × 10 meter area with a residential tower and on the west side with a residential building . A portal and other components have been installed elsewhere in the still existing rectory. Small defense towers in the northwest and at the entrance as well as a kennel and a neck ditch secured the small complex. It acted to protect the place and the trade routes from north to south and east to west at a ford of the river of the same name.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . Jenzig-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 62
- ^ Thomas Bienert: Medieval Castles in Thuringia Wartberg-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-86134-631-1 , p. 94
Web links
- Entry on Auma Castle in the private database "All Castles".