Kahlenberg Castle (Thuringia)

Kahlenberg Castle
Creation time :	1248
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	departed
Standing position :	Local nobility
Place:	Kahlenberg (district of Wutha-Farnroda )

The Castle Kahlenberg is a high Outbound medieval hilltop castle in Thuringia . The site of the castle suspected in the Kahlenberg district in the central area of the Hörselberge , at the “Burbacher Pass” or on the terrain spur “ Die Hornburg” has not yet been able to be located with certainty.

history

The name Kahlenberg of today's part of the municipality Wutha-Farnroda was first mentioned in 1131. The village belonged to the monastery of Fulda ( Mark Lupnitz ) and was given as a fief to the von Wangenheim family .

When the Thuringian War of Succession ravaged the area around Eisenach after the Ludowingers died out in 1247 , the Reinhardsbrunn Chronicle began to build castles and fortifications in the vicinity of Eisenach and in the Nesse and Hörseltal valleys by local nobility and the warring parties involved. The lords of Stockhausen built the Malittenburg , the lords of Wangenheim the Kahlenberg castle, and the citizens of Eisenach built the Frauenburg near Eisenach and the Eisenach castle .

According to the Thuringian Chronicle written by Johannes Rothe in 1409:

"In 1248 Duke Albrecht stayed with Brunswich, the daughter was here drawn from Brabant Ludowice S. Elizabet daughter son, kegen Eisenach built Warberck, occupied the center stone ... that nobody wanted to come but Margrafe Heinrich against czu Meissen the Kalenberg which the von Wangenheym zcustendig ... "

The research presented on Rothe is put into perspective at this point by a contemporary Pirna text:

"(Kahlenberg Castle) ... afterwards it was fortified more by Marggraf Heinrich zu Meissen in 1256, but in 1289, along with other similar castles, were broken and destroyed because of the large number of robberies committed from it."

These notes show that Kahlenberg Castle was a fortification built by the Wangenheimers, probably with the tolerance of a war party, at their Kahlenberg fief. The attacks and robbery carried out during the Thuringian-Hessian War of Succession caused the Wettins , to whom the Wangenheimers held, to enforce the subsequent destruction of the castle.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Lutz Baumbach, Birgit Eichler, Christina Reißig, etal: Festschrift for the local anniversary 750 years of Kahlenberg . Heimatverlag Hörselberg, Wutha-Farnroda 1998, Burg Kahlenberg, p. 2-4 .
↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . Jenzig-Verlag, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , Kahlenberg (Wartburgkreis), p. 151 .
↑ ^a ^b N.N .: Johannes Rothe. Thuringian Chronicle. cited from regesta and documents on the history of the Wangenheim family and their possessions . Ed .: von Wangenheim family. Hanover 1857, p. 39 .

[750Jahre-1] Lutz Baumbach, Birgit Eichler, Christina Reißig, etal: Festschrift for the local anniversary 750 years of Kahlenberg . Heimatverlag Hörselberg, Wutha-Farnroda 1998, Burg Kahlenberg, p. 2-4 .

[Köhler2001-2] Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . Jenzig-Verlag, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , Kahlenberg (Wartburgkreis), p. 151 .

[Rothe-3] N.N .: Johannes Rothe. Thuringian Chronicle. cited from regesta and documents on the history of the Wangenheim family and their possessions . Ed .: von Wangenheim family. Hanover 1857, p. 39 .