Stapelburg Castle
| Stapelburg Castle | ||
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 Stack Castle ruins (April 2012) |
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| Creation time : | 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Stapelburg | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 54 '13.3 " N , 10 ° 40' 9.2" E | |
| Height: | 239 m above sea level NHN | |
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As Stapelburg Castle is ruins of a medieval hilltop castle on the northern edge of the Harz in Stapelburg in the Harz region in the country Saxony-Anhalt called.
Location and shape
The castle ruins stand on a hill, the castle hill, on the northeast edge of the village. This rises about 20 meters above the place. Access is at the village church. About halfway there is a very large, old, protected linden tree next to a war memorial for those who died in the First World War . A road up the mountain begins at the end of the village. The castle hill is surrounded by earth walls of the former fortifications, which support a sparse tree population, some fruit trees.
At the southern edge of the plateau there is a remains of the castle wall made of rubble stones with window and gate openings. Further north, a locked door leads to a reconstructed former cellar of the castle, which is used as an event room. Its ventilation shaft is designed as a well imitation.
history
The Stapelburg was built as a road protection castle and customs post before 1306 by the Counts of Wernigerode on Heerstraße, who connected their ancestral castle with the important imperial and mountain town of Goslar , on a hill (Burgberg) that towers over the area by around 30 meters. The castle was pledged several times and in 1394 came into the possession of the Halberstadt diocese by buying it for 600 marks . On January 25, 1432, Count Botho zu Stolberg received Bishop Johannes von Halberstadt's Schloss Stapelburg and accessories as a pledge, after it had already been pledged to the last Count of Wernigerode, who died in 1429. However, Stapelburg was redeemed by the Halberstadt diocese and mortgaged on to Heinrich von Bila, who was the last lien holder before Bishop Gebhard von Halberstadt's Bishop Gebhard von Halberstadt on June 4, 1463 for 200 Rhenish guilders for life - i.e. until 1511 - to Count Heinrich (the Elder) .) was pledged to Stolberg. In the last years of his life, the Stapelburg was in a rather dilapidated state. On April 13, 1509, the aging count and his son Botho undertook to the administrator of the Halberstadt Monastery, Archbishop Ernst von Magdeburg , to rebuild the Stapelburg within eight years, so that another nobleman or bailiff could take his seat. Then the two Stolbergers were enfeoffed with Stapelburg.
In 1559, the Archbishop Sigismund von Magdeburg, as administrator of the Halberstadt Monastery, set up the former half-city council Dr. Heinrich von Bila, who was an assessor at the Imperial Court of Justice, and his brothers in Stapelburg. They built the Bila (n) shausen farm for themselves at the foot of the Stapelburg by 1563 at the latest and at the same time a village settlement for their people, to which the name Stapelburg passed. The heirs of Dr. von Bila sold the castle and village of Stapelburg in 1596 for 45,000 thalers to Statius von Münchhausen . After its bankruptcy (1619), the property came back to the Halberstadt Cathedral Chapter in 1625 . After long negotiations, Count Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode succeeded , in a Berlin settlement with the Halberstadt Cathedral Chapter of March 11, 1722, to secure Stapelburg permanently as an accessory for the County of Wernigerode for the next few centuries . On December 11, 1727, King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia reestablished the old connection with the County of Wernigerode by finally eliminating the sovereignty claims of the Halberstadt cathedral chapter, which had meanwhile become Prussian.
At the beginning of the 18th century the castle was again in a very poor structural condition. In 1737 a room was supposed to have been habitable, which members of the Wernigerode court society occasionally used on excursions. When a major fire almost completely destroyed the town's Lange Strasse in 1743, large parts of the castle were demolished to rebuild the houses, and the building continued to fall into disrepair.
Modern times
At the beginning of the 2000s, life returned to the castle hill. Stapelburg clubs organized a castle hill festival around the castle ruins. Connected with this was the idea of protecting the castle ruins and ramparts from further deterioration in the future through joint voluntary work. The initiative received a legal framework through the establishment of the Burgberg Association of Interest in 2004. Further goals of the association are the promotion of citizens' interest through targeted public relations as well as the research and processing of the history of the castle.
In a large joint action by the members of the association, the citizens of Stapelburg and sponsors, the remains of the ruins were structurally secured, the old cellar turned into an event room and the area made usable for open-air events. 44 of the most active participants were honored by the association with the title "Knights of Honor of the Stapelburg". In addition to the annual two-day castle festival with jugglers, market bustle and artistic performances - the 16th took place in 2018 - there are also numerous events in the castle cellar.
literature
- Bernd Sternal, Wolfgang Braun: Stapelburg castle ruins . In: Burgen und Schlösser der Harzregion Volume 1, BoD - Books on Demand GmbH 2012, ISBN 978-3-8423-3947-7 , pp. 65–67
Web links
- The Stapelburg castle ruins. In: harzlife. Retrieved May 10, 2019 .
- Homepage of the Burgbergverein
- Reconstruction drawing in the medieval state
- Burgfest Stapelburg Impressions 2014. In: YouTube. Retrieved May 10, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Natural tree monuments in the Harz district. (PDF) Retrieved May 5, 2019 .
- ↑ The time table of the Stapelburg. In: Website of the Burgberg Interest Group. Retrieved August 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Pictures of the construction work. Retrieved August 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Knight of Honor. Retrieved August 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Pictures from the castle cellar. Retrieved August 27, 2020 .