Lilienstein Castle
| Lilienstein Castle | ||
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_Mauerreste_der_mittelalterlichen_Burg_(01-2).jpg) Remnants of the wall of the medieval Lilienstein Castle |
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| Creation time : | around 1200, first mentioned in 1379 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Standing position : | Margrave | |
| Place: | Bad Schandau - Waltersdorf | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 55 '48.6 " N , 14 ° 5' 5.7" E | |
| Height: | 415 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Lilienstein is the ruins of a hilltop castle on the 415 meter high Lilienstein at the district Waltersdorf the city of Bad Schandau in the district Saxon Switzerland & Eastern Ore Mountains in Saxony .
history
The castle was probably built around 1200 in the north-western part of the summit plateau and was in Bohemian ownership. The first mention was made in 1379 as " Ylgenstein " in a pledge of King Wenceslas IV. The name is probably derived from Saint Aegidius . In 1397 a document named the " veste Lilgenstein ".
In the course of the Dohna feud , Lilienstein Castle came to the Margraves of Meissen around 1405 . Bills show that in 1406 a band of mercenaries from Dresden served in the castle on behalf of the margraves. In the following decades the castle fell into disrepair. Further documentary mentions are not yet known.
The small village of Ebenheit at the foot of the Lilienstein was probably created as a settlement for happy people from Lilienstein Castle.
In 1894 the Bergwirt of the Lilienstein carried out excavations and exposed the remains of the walls of the old stone castle. The excavations revealed that the walling encompassed an area 38.5 meters long and up to 26 meters wide. The walls themselves were up to 1.6 meters thick. The iron parts, lance and arrowheads as well as pottery shards and bone fragments discovered in the course of the excavations were kept for a while in the mountain restaurant.
The castle ruins still show a few remains of the walls from former rooms near the south ascent and wall recesses for beams on the north ascent.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alfred Meiche : Historical-topographical description of the Pirna administration. Dresden 1927, p. 167
- ↑ Georg Pilk: Lilienstein . in: Alfred Meiche (ed.): The castles and prehistoric dwellings of Saxon Switzerland . Dresden 1907, p. 137
- ↑ Georg Pilk: Lilienstein . in: Alfred Meiche (ed.): The castles and prehistoric dwellings of Saxon Switzerland . Dresden 1907, p. 137
literature
- Georg Pilk: Lilienstein . In: Alfred Meiche (ed.): The castles and prehistoric dwellings of Saxon Switzerland . Dresden 1907, pp. 136-140
- Alfred Meiche : Historical-topographical description of the Pirna administration . Dresden 1927
Web links
- Lilienstein Castle at www.sachsens-schlösser.de
- Ground plan of the rock Lilienstein 1754 (the "old rudera of a building" marked with "b" is the remains of the wall of Lilienstein Castle)]