Pohrsdorf Castle
| Pohrsdorf Castle | |
|---|---|
| Creation time : | 1216 to 1223 |
| Castle type : | Tower hill castle, moated castle |
| Conservation status: | Moat remains |
| Standing position : | Count |
| Place: | Tharandt |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 59 '41.9 " N , 13 ° 31' 39.6" E |
The Pohrsdorfer castle was once located in the village of Pohrsdorf the city Tharandt at Tharandter forest in the district Saxon Switzerland & Eastern Ore Mountains . In its place today, among other things, a listed four-sided farm from the 19th and 20th centuries extends.
Location
The location of the former castle of Pohrsdorf was on the tarpaulin between the four-sided courtyard, at the beginning of the church path, in the upper village and the village street. Their moat, which was supplied with water from the Saubach, stretched from the confluence of Kirchweg and Dorfstraße to the former inn at the confluence of Windmühlenstraße and Dorfstraße. At these two ends of the moat there was supposed to have been a guardhouse or gatehouse to the castle, through which the so-called Alte Längenweg led from the Meißner Land into the Ore Mountains and on to Bohemia (also Riesenburger Weg or Alte Meißner Straße : Meißen - Riesenburg near Ossegg ), some of which is still preserved in the Tharandt forest as a long path .
history
Very little is known about the history of this castle complex, because it has not been archaeologically researched: In the years 1216–42 a Boriwo de Tarant was employed as the castle administrator of the Meissen margraves at Tharandt Castle , who outsourced his property in Grumbach and thus around 1215 The foundation stone for the Pohrsdorfer Flur was laid and a tower hill castle was built there. This should have served to protect the paths through the Tharandt forest (including the Holy Path and the Way of the Pilgrims on the Old Franconian Road ), which was not possible from Tharandt Castle. Boriwo may also be the local founder of Pohrsdorf, which emerged later than the neighboring villages (Boriwos Dorf = Borsdorf). Because to this day the Fördergersdorfer Flur extends with the Pohrsdorfer Rand up to the Dorfstraße in the upper village, opposite the former castle.
Jutta von Porschwitz (possibly Paszowice ), or Borsenitz / Borsewitz (possibly Bosewitz ), acquired in 1313 from the indebted Meissen burgrave Hermann VI. the castle courtyard Pohrsdorf with moat and rampart.
The place Pohrsdorf was mentioned for the first time in 1349, that it was parish to Grumbach and the lords of Schönberg zu Wilsdruff had to pay taxes.
In 1429/30 in the Hussite Wars and in 1447/50 in the subsequent Saxon Fratricidal Wars, the castle was probably destroyed down to the foundation walls, which is also known from the neighboring church Fördergersdorf and von Wilsdruff as well as the original complex in Grillenburg .
In 1762 the current farm, Kirchweg 2, already existed next to the location of the former castle and was looted during the Seven Years War . It did not get its current form as a four-sided courtyard until the 19th and 20th centuries.
Structural remains
Around 1800 the Pohrsdorf castle wall was still listed in the Saxon mile sheet next to the courtyard. In 1814/21 the rampart of the castle was called Schlossberg or old castle with moat, in 1835 there were still remains of the castle in the form of masonry and a rampart, and in 1853 traces of an old castle with a wide moat were mentioned. Today only the moat remains on Kirchweg remind of the castle, the location of which has not yet been built over directly. Charred wooden palisade remains are said to have been found during earthworks in the area.
literature
- Artur Schirmer: Pohrsdorfer Chronik , Part 1, Pohrsdorf 1967
- Raimund Adam: Tharandt Castle in the Saxon State History , Tharandter historical booklets, publisher: Schönerungsverein Tharandt, booklet 4, 1998
- André Kaiser: The Pohrsdorf Castle , Around the Tharandt Forest, Official Gazette of the City of Tharandt, November 2007
- Heinrich Magirius , Norbert Oelsner, Reinhard Spehr : Grillenburg , State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Workbook 10, Dresden 2006, ISBN 978-3-937602-85-1
- Manfred Hammer: Structurally and historically valuable village facilities in the Weißeritzkreis , in: Farmhouses, Farms, Villages in Saxon Counties , Vol. 4, Ed. Association of Rural Building Values in Saxony eV, Dresden 2006, pp. 98–99
- Lars-Arne Dannenberg / Vincenz Kaiser: Wilsdruff in the High Middle Ages. Considerations on the settlement of the Wilsdruffer Land and the development of the city with special consideration of the Jakobikirche , in: New Archive for Saxon History , 80th Volume (2009), Verlagdruckerei Schmidt, ISBN 978-3-87707-769-6