Heimburg Castle
| Heimburg Castle | ||
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 Viewing pavilion at the site of the former Altenburg |
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| Alternative name (s): | Altenburg, Alteburg | |
| Creation time : | around 1070 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Emperor, noblewoman, duke | |
| Place: | Heimburg | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 49 '37.9 " N , 10 ° 54' 38.8" E | |
| Height: | 280.9 m above sea level NHN | |
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The castle Heimburg , even Altenburg or Alteburg called, is the ruins of a hilltop castle in Heimburg in the district of Harz in Saxony-Anhalt .
Geographical location
The castle ruins are located in the northern Harz foreland in the Harz / Saxony-Anhalt nature park at 280.9 m above sea level. NHN high, oval and lightly wooded elevation Altenburg above Heimburg , a north-western district of the city of Blankenburg . The survey is included as No. 84 in the system of stamping points of the Harz hiking pin.
history
The castle was probably around 1070 by King Henry IV. Built as a resistance to the Saxon princes, but according to the historian Lambert of Hersfeld already 1073/1074 in Saxony war by the Saxon Count Palatine Frederick II. Of Goseck destroyed. After the reconstruction and the loss of a feud between Heimburg and Regenstein that lasted several generations , the Counts of Regenstein took over the castle. One line of these counts was then called von Regenstein-Heimburg. In the 16th century the castle was pledged several times and after destruction in the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) there were no more renovations, so that the castle fell into complete disrepair and was used as a quarry for building materials. After the Regenstein family died out in 1599, the fiefdom reverted to their liege lord, the Duke of Braunschweig. Excavations took place from 1891 to 1894.
investment
The oval castle complex still shows the remains of a ring wall up to 10 m high , remains of some wall sections, ditches and ramparts and the round keep . The core castle had a base area of about 35 by 60 m.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saxony-Anhalt viewer of the State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation ( notes )
- ↑ Harzer hiking pin: stamping point 84 / Altenburg (near Heimburg) , on harzer-wandernadel.de
- ↑ a b c d Entry on Heimburg (Altenburg, Alteburg) in the private database "Alle Burgen".
literature
- Georg Bode : The Heimburg am Harz and its first family, the Lords of Heimburg (= research on the history of the Harz region. 1, ZDB -ID 536762-1 ). Harz Association for History and Archeology, Wernigerode 1909, ( digitized ).
- Friedrich Stolberg : Fortifications in and on the Harz from early history to modern times. A manual (= research and sources on the history of the Harz region. 9). 2nd, unchanged edition. Lax, Hildesheim 1983, ISBN 3-7848-1002-X .