Rabenau Castle
| Rabenau Castle | ||
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_b_029.jpg) The Rabenau castle hill (1883) with the furniture factory founded here in 1866 |
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| Creation time : | before 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Gothic gate | |
| Standing position : | Lower nobility | |
| Place: | Rabenau | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 57 '43.1 " N , 13 ° 38' 26.7" E | |
| Height: | 280 m above sea level HN | |
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The castle Rabenau is the ruin of a spur castle at 280 m above sea level. HN high rock spur above the Oelsabach valley in Rabenau in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains in Saxony .
history
There is no confirmation that the castle was founded in the early days of local mining by the Knights of Theler . Presumably, the Rabenau rule was founded shortly before or around 1200 from their Kaitz castle .
In 1227 the castle was bought by the Burgraves of Dohna , who used it as a border fortress in their domain. Lieutenants of the Dohna in the castle were the lords of Rabenau mentioned here in 1235 . The castle was conquered in 1399 in the course of the Dohna feud by Margrave Wilhelm I of Meißen and destroyed in 1402. It lost its strategic importance, gradually fell into disrepair and in the 19th century its remains were torn down except for the Gothic gate from 1560.
The castle consisted of a main castle, which was separated from the outer bailey by a ditch. The outer bailey was also separated from the city by the outer neck ditch.
Katharina von Miltitz, the court master of the wife of Elector Friedrich, got the castle in 1454.
From 1569, the former stables in the outer bailey were expanded to become the outer works and later used as a farm.
A castle chapel built in the 13th century, which was consecrated to St. Agidius, was replaced in 1488 by a new chapel at the current church location and dedicated to the same place as the castle chapel.
The gravestone of Caspar, son of the lord of the castle Heinrich von Miltitz, who died in 1559, is located in the village's church in Rabenau .
To the west belonged the Vorwerk Eckersdorf, to the south the Vorwerk Oelsa ( Kleinoelsa ) and to the east the Vorwerk Obernaundorf ( Naundorf ).
The chair factory of the Sächsische Holzindustriegesellschaft , founded in 1869/70, was built on the castle hill , from which the upholstered furniture factory (Polstermöbel Oelsa GmbH), which is located today, developed. The chair making and local history museum of the city of Rabenau, which was founded in 1922 and is now the German Chair Making Museum, has been located in the former Vorwerk of the castle since 1979 .
Owner of the castle
- 1227 Burgrave of Dohna (1235 Lehnsmann Burchard de Rabenowe )
- 1300 Burgrave Otto III and his wife Gertrudis von Dohna
- 1347 Burgrave Otto von Dohna the Younger
- 1366 Burgrave Jaschko (Jeschke) von Dohna
- 1399 Margrave Wilhelm I of Meissen
- 1454 Katharina von Miltitz
- 1501 Sigismund von Miltitz the Elder
- 1533 Johann Heinrich von Miltitz the Younger
- 1565 Elector August of Saxony
Owner of the Vorwerk / Gut Rabenau
- 1569 Matthias Hopfenberger
- 1579 M. Caspar Schober
- 1620 Martin Künzelmann
- 1621 Ursula von Maltitz
- 1627 Anna von Schlichting
- 1630 Georg Seiffert
- 1638 Christiane Rabin
- 1668 Johann Michael Knaust
- 1713 Johann Weiß Koths
- 1722 Cajus Rudolph von Spohr on Wittnitz and Sophia Dorothea Weißtoth (in)
- 1749 Dorothea Friederike Gerbe née Nohr
- 1767 Dorothea Christiane d'Anselme
- 1782 Johann Samuel Gebhardt
- 1787 Heinrich Gottlieb Neitzsch
- 1792 Philippine Amalie von Helbig
- 1833 Theodore Amalie von Baumann, b. Querfurth
- 1844 Gustav Rudolf Martin
- 1845 Friedrich Hermann von Kirchmann
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Konrad Grüttner: "Chronicle of chair construction in the Rabenau area, Oelsa and the neighboring towns", unpublished, Rabenau 1971
- ^ By Vincenz Kaiser: Castle under the furniture factory. In: Lit.:A. Thieme, Burg und Herrschaft im Osterzgebirge, in: Herbergen der Christenheit, 2002; G. Cheap / H. Müller, Burgen. Witnesses to Saxon History, 1998; Values of our home 21, 1973. Sächssiche.de, June 19, 2004, accessed on April 10, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Historical message from Rabenau. In: Google Books. 1740, accessed March 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony Volume 8th Bavarian State Library, 1821, accessed on March 30, 2020 .