Berus Castle
| Berus Castle | ||
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 Gate of Berus Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | New castle | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, location | |
| Conservation status: | Gatehouse, wall and moat remains | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Überherrn - Berus | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 16 '3.5 " N , 6 ° 42' 6.2" E | |
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Berus Castle , also called Neus Schloss , is the remainder of a hilltop castle in Berus im Saargau , a district of Überherrn in the Saarlouis district in Saarland .
Assumptions (including von Cohausen ) about a prehistoric or Roman fortification of the strategically located, steeply sloping mountain nose on three sides remain hypothetical, since the later development has obliterated all traces.
In 1235 Berus was first documented as "Bellus Ramus" (beautiful branch, beautiful mountain nose) and was a border fortress of the Dukes of Lorraine . The castle was built by the beginning of the 13th century at the latest. It served to protect the surrounding Lorraine possessions and the escort road Wallerfangen – Bolchen (French: Boulay). The fortified castle settlement was likely to have emerged immediately afterwards.
The castle was the seat of a family of the same name from Beres , which can be traced back to 1433. Later it was as a Lorraine fiefdom in the possession of albums , which were called from albums, called Beris (later spelling Berris ). Several Burgmann families lived in Berus from the 14th to the 17th century. Only those of Haraucourt are mentioned here (from a place of the same name in today's canton of Château-Salins, Moselle department), which can be traced back to Berus until 1664. The tomb of Johann von Haracourt († 1570) can be found in the church of Berus.
At the end of the 16th century, the town and castle of Berus were re-fortified. Structural remains have only been preserved from this time. Of the actual castle or palace , only the gatehouse with archway and eyelet has survived as rising masonry . The most remarkable remnant of the city fortifications is the Scharfeneck gatehouse with the Hattsteiner coat of arms.
In 1635 Berus was devastated in the Thirty Years War . The castle was probably rebuilt afterwards, but later gave its importance to the Saarlouis fortress (founded in 1680). It is not known exactly when the castle was finally abandoned.
literature
- Conrad Joachim, Flesch Stefan: Castles and palaces on the Saar . Minerva Publishing House, 1988.
- Peter Ch. Keller: Report about Berus: The mountain vest, its civil rights and a sanctuary in the shell limestone . Saarbrücken printing and publishing house, Saarbrücken 1981.
Web links
- Entry on Berus Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".