Neuhaus Castle (Neuhaus-Schierschnitz)
| Neuhaus Castle | ||
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 Schlossberg with Neuhaus Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Neuhaus Castle | |
| Creation time : | before 1315 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg in spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Ruin, building partially rebuilt | |
| Standing position : | Local nobility | |
| Place: | Neuhaus-Schierschnitz | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 18 '52 " N , 11 ° 14' 40" E | |
| Height: | 365 m above sea level NN | |
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The Neuhaus Castle is the ruins of a hilltop castle on 365 m above sea level. NN in Neuhaus-Schierschnitz in Thuringia . In the 13th century it was the seat of the Schaumberg family .
history
Neuhaus Castle was probably built in the 13th century as the Newe Hus of the Lords of Schaumberg, who secured their interests in this part of their domain against the Vicedomini von Würzburg, who were also active in the region, and built an old army and controlled the trade route from Leipzig to Nuremberg. Around 1310 allodial possession of Eberhard von Schaumberg, the castle passed to the lorded county of Henneberg in 1317 , to whose fiefdoms the Schaumbergs became. The castle was the seat of a small jury district . In 1355, when the House of Wettin Vogtei took over care of Coburg , it became the judicial and administrative seat of the Saxon office in Neuhaus.
At the time of the office of the Lords von Gottsmann , Neuhaus Castle became their man fief . Kunz Gottsmann (around 1482–1542) and Hans Friedrich Gottsmann (1532–1611) expanded the medieval castle complex into a representative aristocratic residence. After their extinction, the castle and office fell to the feudal court of the Duchy of Saxony-Coburg , the then sovereign.
During the Thirty Years' War , the militarily insignificant complex was briefly the seat of the staff and provisions store of the Swedish-Coburg troops who besieged the Catholic Kronach in Bamberg and the Rosenberg fortress . In revenge, the castle and the market town were destroyed in 1634 by the victorious imperial allies of Bamberg, especially by Croatian mercenaries.
In the following centuries, the castle was used as a quarry, parts of which were converted into a tithe and storage barn for the neighboring Saxon-Meiningische Amtshaus. After the Neuhaus office was finally dissolved in 1829, the ruins fell into disrepair. In 1903/1904 the Sonneberg merchant and banker Baron Hermann von Walther, who redesigned the office building into a “castle” in the neo-renaissance style, had romanticizing half-timbered structures in the Nuremberg style built on the castle walls. From the 1960s until its relocation in 1980, the local history museum of the Neuhaus-Schierschnitz community was housed in the castle. Today it is owned by the DRK regional association of Thuringia.
Conservation status 2010
The facility is at risk from decay and vandalism. The building fabric must be fundamentally secured. In 2013 an association for the care and maintenance of the castle was founded. For this purpose, smaller festivals are held again and again, such as B. A medieval festival at the beginning of August 2018.
literature
- Georg Brückner : Regional studies of the Duchy of Meiningen. Part 2: The topography of the country. Brückner & Renner, Meiningen 1853, pp. 515f.
