Walsburg Castle
| Walsburg Castle | ||
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 Map section (around 1880) |
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| Creation time : | around 1290 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, small remains of the wall | |
| Place: | Eßbach - Walsburg | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 34 '42.2 " N , 11 ° 41' 2.8" E | |
| Height: | 395 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Walsburg is an Outbound Spur castle on a mountain ridge above the right bank of the Saale close east of the confluence of the district Wisenta Walsburg the community Eßbach in Saale-Orla ( Thuringia ).
location
The castle site is located on a spur-like foothill oriented to the west at 395 m above sea level. NN of the Vogelherd mountain. The Wisenta flows into the Saale within sight of the castle. There were mills to guard a ford and / or bridge as a crossing point. The place Walsburg is on the opposite side of the valley.
history
Walsburg was first mentioned in documents around 1290 in connection with a "Burg Waldesberk", which is called in later records as a robber baron castle . The castle was probably founded by the Lords of Lobdeburg to secure the crossing of the Saale and the traffic between the Orlasenke with Arnshaugk and Bad Lobenstein . In 1323 the castle came to the Schwarzburger and in the 15th century it was abandoned.
description
Today's Burgstall shows only small remains of the wall, on the east side there was an upstream wall, which separated the spur, which sloped to the northwest in several steps and was secured by steep slopes, from the plateau. The connection path to the village / Gut Dörflas runs through the castle grounds, so this place could have served as the fortress of the castle. The area is in forest use.
See also
- Upper Walsburg (near Remptendorf )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walsburg at walsburg.de
- ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 265.