Haynsburg Castle
| Haynsburg Castle | ||
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 Haynsburg Castle |
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| Creation time : | first mentioned in 1185 | |
| Castle type : | Location | |
| Conservation status: | receive | |
| Construction: | Sandstone | |
| Place: | Wetterzeube - Haynsburg | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 1 '7.1 " N , 12 ° 4' 8.2" E | |
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The castle Haynsburg is a castle in the village of Haynsburg (Burgstraße 10) of the community Wetterzeube in Saxony-Anhalt .
history
The castle was first mentioned in 1185 with the nobleman "Conradus de Hagensberg", verifiably until 1223, and in 1238 it was mentioned as a fortified place in a document from Margrave Heinrich .
After the castle in 1295 with the associated lands to Friedrich von Meissen had been sold, she came in 1305 after his property waiver in the possession of the diocese of Naumburg-Zeitz , was considered "the strongest bulwark in the diocese Zeitz-Naumburg" was the protection of the imperial hunting Palatinate in Kayna and secured and controlled the three high roads leading past the Haynsburg and the Elsterfurten .
Since the castle could not be stormed in 1450 during the Saxon Brotherly War , it was significantly expanded under Bishop Peter von Schleinitz , and in 1515 under Bishop Johannes III. Restored by Schönburg, rebuilt further and remained in good condition.
Already used for agriculture in the 15th century, after the dissolution of the diocese of Naumburg-Zeitz in 1549, the castle was given the title of “Electoral Saxon Domain”, and in 1815 it came to Prussia as a state domain through the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna until 1945 . After the Second World War , the agricultural character of the castle was retained, initially becoming a provincial estate of Saxony-Anhalt and later, until the fall of the Wall (1990), a people's own estate .
Todays use
After the fall of the Wall, the castle, which had been home to a kindergarten with a crèche since 1972, was expanded into an important community center for tourism, with exhibitions and an accessible keep, which was restored in 1990 .
The castle also offers a tavern and overnight accommodation, a riding stables and is the starting point for an excellent hiking area.
description
The castle complex forms a quadrangle surrounded by moats and enclosing the castle courtyard with a free-standing, round, approximately 24.43 meter high keep (oldest part of the castle, end of the 11th century) with a diameter of 12.81 meters and 4.18 meters thick Sandstone blocks , which leave an interior with sandstone masonry only 4.45 meters in diameter. The lower part, under which a cavity indicates a castle dungeon closed by a beamed ceiling , is 12 meters high and the upper part 24.43 meters high.
The keep could only be climbed through a high entrance , presumably using rope ladders or an outbuilding, and it was not until 1880 that it was given a ground level entrance. Today there is a continuous wooden staircase in the tower.
As Sidonius Tower is a tower with chapel received upstairs on oval cross-section in the story. The name goes back to Johann Sidonius, curator and canon at the collegiate church in Zeitz, who was fixed in this tower from 1685 to 1692 and died on March 3, 1692 at the age of 64.
Web links
- Haynsburg Castle at zur-haynsburg.com ( Memento from November 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Burg Haynsburg history at vgem-dzf.de ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )