Lichtenberg Castle (Saxony)
| Lichtenberg Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Castle Hill | |
| Creation time : | 14th century | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Castle stable, wall and moat remains | |
| Place: | Lichtenberg | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 48 '46.5 " N , 13 ° 27' 38.2" E | |
| Height: | 621.4 m above sea level NN | |
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The Lichtenberg Castle or even Castle Hill is a Burgstall a medieval hilltop castle of the same name the nucleus of the community Lichtenberg in the Erzgebirge , mittelsachsen ( Saxony ). The complex probably dates from the 14th century.
Geographical location
The Burgstall is located within the Erzgebirge / Vogtland Nature Park (directly south of the northern park boundary) southeast above the village of Lichtenberg. It is located on the striking mountain peak of the Burgberg ( 621.4 m above sea level ), the landscape of which slopes south and west to the Lichtenberg reservoir, which was built between 1966 and 1975 and through which the Gimmlitz flows .
description
Due to the location of the core works on a cliff, the weir system can be counted among the spur castles. The core work has an irregularly round shape with an extension of about 10 by 12 meters. In front of this, two section trenches and ramparts run from the southwest over the south side to the southeast. The trenches are about 10 to 12 meters wide and are a maximum of 7 meters deeper than the core plant plateau. The section walls have a width of 3 to 4 meters and are up to 5 meters high in the middle and sloping in height at their ends on both sides. The north side of the core plant is followed by a plateau about 8 meters lower, about 25 by 15 meters.
Today nothing can be made out of the buildings of the core plant. The ramparts and moats have been preserved and have been under monument protection since 1976 .
Possibility of viewing
A yellow marked hiking trail leads to the castle hill. From a rock north of the summit you have a view of Lichtenberg, Freiberg , the Tharandt forest , Friedersdorf and Burkersdorf .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sachsen-Viewer ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Staatsbetrieb Geobasisinformation und Vermessung Sachsen, topographic map, M = 1: 10.000, on geosn.sachsen.de
- ↑ Volkmar Geupel : The protected ground monuments in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district (= small writings of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden. Issue 3, ISSN 0232-5446 ). State Museum for Prehistory, Dresden 1983, pp. 22–23.
- ↑ Sights worth seeing in the community of Lichtenberg ( Memento of the original dated August 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 27, 2012
