Breitenbach Castle
| Breitenbach Castle | ||
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 Ruins of the Kempe (Kemenate) from the 14th century. |
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| Creation time : | 1100 to 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, location | |
| Conservation status: | Tower remnant | |
| Standing position : | Nobles, clericals, count | |
| Place: | Breitenbach | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 0 '12 " N , 12 ° 4' 37.5" E | |
| Height: | 262 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Breitenbach is the ruin of a castle in the village of Breitenbach the community Wetterzeube in Burgenlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt .
The castle was built southwest of Zeitz from a royal court that, according to a forged document, was owned by King Konrad III. was. The latter had this regalem curiam Breitenbuch and the adjacent forest sold to the Bishop of Naumburg on July 26, 1138 . Later a castle was built into the older complex (from the 10th to 11th centuries) by the Breitenbuch family, which was their ancestral seat from the middle of the 12th century to the end of the 13th century.
The castle, which was owned by the Naumburg bishopric , changed hands several times between the bishop and the margraves of Meissen. In 1306, Margrave Dietrich transferred Breitenbach Castle to Count Simon von Stolberg and around 1310 Albert Knut only had it as a fiefdom for a short time . The castle was probably destroyed by two fires in the armed conflict of 1315. In 1317 Count Heinrich zu Stolberg sold the castle to the Naumburg bishop. The Kempe ( Kemenate ), located right next to the castle, was built from its ruins in the mid-14th century.
A remnant of the residential tower is still preserved from the former castle complex .
literature
- Gustav Sommer: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Zeitz district (= descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the province of Saxony and neighboring areas. Vol. 1, ZDB -ID 985368-6 ). Otto Hendel, Halle (Saale) 1879, p. 6, ( digital version (PDF; 4.79 MB) ).
- Adolf Brinkmann : About castle facilities near Zeitz (= scientific supplement to the annual report of the Königl. Stiftsgymnasium zu Zeitz. 1895/1896, ZDB -ID 891007-8 ). Otto Hendel, Halle (Saale) 1896, ( digitized version ).
- Friedrich Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages. Floor plan lexicon. Weidlich / Flechsig, Würzburg 1994, ISBN 3-8035-1372-3 .
- Heinz Wießner, Ernst Devrient : The Diocese (= The Diocese of Naumburg. 1, 1 = Germania Sacra . NF 35, 1). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1997, ISBN 3-11-015193-6 , pp. 58-65 .