Lauterstein Castle (Marienberg)
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 Lauterstein castle ruins 2010 |
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| Alternative name (s): | Niederlauterstein castle ruins | |
| Creation time : | 2nd half of the 12th century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Niederlauterstein | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 40 '7 " N , 13 ° 12' 29" E | |
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The castle Lauterstein , also castle ruins low Lauterstein called, is a medieval hilltop castle in Lower Lauterstein, a district of Marienberg in the Ore Mountains of the Free State of Saxony . It has been a castle ruin since the Thirty Years War .
location
The Lauterstein ruin is located on a striking gneiss rock at the exit of Niederlauterstein, above the left bank of the Schwarzen Pockau near Zöblitz . The name Burgruine Niederlauterstein was also common in the past .
history
The stone castle complex was the center of power and served to protect the medieval trade and pass road from Leipzig over the Erzgebirge ridge to Prague . Archaeological studies in the 1970s showed that it was built in the second half of the 12th century. It was first mentioned in a document in 1304. After the Schellenberg feud and the loss of power of the Lords of Schellenberg (today Augustusburg), Margrave Friedrich the Freidige of Meißen enfeoffed the Burgrave Albrecht von Altenburg and Otto von Leisnig with Lauterstein Castle and the town of Zcobelin (Zöblitz). . The lords of Schellenberg were the administrators of the castle.
In 1434 Kaspar von Berbisdorf, from the Saxon noble family of the Berbisdorf , bought the Lauterstein rule from the burgraves Otto von Leisnig and Albrecht von Altenburg for 4,000 guilders. In 1497 the castle complex was divided into Ober- and Niederlauterstein by the descendants of the Berbisdorf. In 1559, Elector August of Saxony came into possession of the Lauterstein castle and rule and set up the seat of an Electoral Saxon office here. The castle is said to have been set on fire on March 14, 1639 by three Swedish horsemen. After that it was not rebuilt and remained a ruin.
Lauterstein Castle 1629
View from 1839
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volkmar Geupel : On the settlement history of the area between Oberer Flöha and Pockau. in: Archeology and Heimatgeschichte 3, Berlin 1988, pp. 62–66.
literature
- Heinz Bauer: Lauterstein Castle - on the history of its exploration . In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter Heft 5/1995, 15-17
- Heinz Müller, Gerhard Billig : Castles - witnesses to Saxon history. Neustadt ad Aisch 1998.
- Georg Pilk: The Lauterstein castles in the Saxon Ore Mountains. Strache, Warnsdorf 1894 ( digitized version )
- Lauterstein, also Lauterstein Castle . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 5th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1818, pp. 434–437.
- Richard Steche : Lauterstein. In: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 5th issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Marienberg . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1885, p. 12.
Web links
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
