Rauenstein Castle
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| Creation time : | 1349 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg in spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains, ground monument | |
| Standing position : | Local nobility | |
| Place: | Rauenstein | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 25 '12.3 " N , 11 ° 3' 17.9" E | |
| Height: | 510 m above sea level NN | |
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The Castle Rauenstein is the ruin of a Spur castle on 510 m above sea level. NN in Rauenstein in Thuringia . It had been the seat of the Schaumberg family since the 14th century and thus the headquarters of the Schaumberg-Rauenstein line.
history
The noble lordship of Henneberg was enfeoffed around 1315 with the ancestral castle of the lords of Schaumberg, the Schaumberg Castle near Schalkau , after Count Hermann I von Henneberg had acquired the rights to this castle in 1260. Before 1350, the prince counts held the castle and half a cent of Schalkau as an imperial fief. The Schaumbergs were forced to move to the Niederfüllbach manor , but acquired Rauenstein halfway from Schalkau to Sonneberg as the new manor. Possibly was at this point before 1340 a foam bergische Kemenate to manage the precious and exceptional sovereign rights such as sore jurisdiction, conduct, customs, mining law, high Wildbann and the church patronage equipped property "before the forest" in Rauenstein, which expanded at that time and was attached. In 1349 the regent Jutta von Henneberg granted permission to fortify the castle called "Haus Ruhestein" on the condition that this house had to be open to her as a Henneberg sons and daughters fief. Margrave Friedrich der Strenge von Meißen renewed this contract in 1351, whereby in addition to property and imperial fiefs , Saxon man fiefs were added .
The Schaumbergs quickly established themselves at their new mansion. In 1398 the area of the Rauenstein court already comprised 25 forest mountains, 6 independent villages and the Hiftenberger houses . The village of Rauenstein was mentioned for the first time in 1455, whereby it was noted that it had been there before the castle and was bought by the Schaumbergers and was therefore their property.
In 1660 the Rauenstein property was still called genealogical property ( Fideikommiss ), but in 1662 part of it went to Burgvogt Georg Dietrich zu Klein-Ziegenfeld and was freely available to him as inheritance . From 1669 he also lived at the castle, which had been abandoned by the Schaumbergers in 1632 and partially destroyed by imperial troops in 1640. In 1670 Burgvogt Georg Dietrich also left the castle and lived in a "new castle house" on the market square, also known as the "rectory".
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The Duke of Coburg's chief stable master Hans Siegmund von Schaumberg received the full rights to the castle and the Schaumberg rule back in 1687 and tried to sell them to Duke Albrecht von Sachsen-Coburg , which failed because of the objection of the Ziegenfeld heirs. He built a new castle at the foot of the castle, which later became the town hall and today houses the Rauensteiner Porcelain Cabinet. The castle was no longer used and fell into ruin. In the end, Duke Anton Ulrich von Sachsen-Meiningen acquired the entire family estate from Hans Siegmund von Schaumberg in 1729, making him the last Schaumberger on Rauenstein. This died in the same year. In addition to the main creditor, the Sonneberg businessman Andreas Grosch zu Ehnes , the heirs of Klein-Ziegenfeld and the heirs of Strössendorf, his daughter Sophie Magdalene, wife of a colonel von Hanstein , and the final transfer of the purchase price by Charlotte Amalie benefited from the payments von Sachsen-Meiningen in 1763 and the redemption of the last pledged goods in Grümpen and Theuern in 1786 finally her son, Lieutenant Colonel Johann Adam Wilhelm von Hanstein. The von Hanstein family had owned Gut Einberg in today's Rödental since 1620 .
State of preservation
Remnants of the wall from which the striking keep rises are preserved. Refurbishment attempts were only made at the end of the 1990s, but these were not completed. Since then there has been a dramatic decline in the structure of the keep, remains of the ring wall , gate construction and shell towers. In 2004, the Thuringian-Franconian History Association was founded with the aim of saving the Rauenstein castle ruins. As a result of the initiatives of the association, the municipality of Effelder-Rauenstein and the monument protection authorities of Thuringia, the purchase contract between the previous owner company LEG-Thuringia and the municipality of Effelder-Rauenstein was signed on August 24, 2006, and the keep was renovated at the end of 2006. Since then, volunteers have been working to preserve the ruins and make the castle area accessible.
literature
- Ottokar Henschel: The political, economic and socio-cultural development of the village of Rauenstein since its appearance in the history of our homeland in 1349. ( unprinted manuscript ).
- Georg Brückner : Regional studies of the Duchy of Meiningen. Part 2: The topography of the country. Brückner & Renner, Meiningen 1853, p. 499f.
