Burgberg (Striegistal)
| Burgberg near Marbach (Striegistal) |
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267 m above sea level NHN approx. 70 m above the level of the Freiberg Mulde |
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| location | near Marbach (Striegistal) , Central Saxony district , Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 3 '48 " N , 13 ° 14' 32" E | |
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| particularities | Castle abandoned in the 12th century | |
The Burgberg is a terrain spur over the left bank of the Freiberg Mulde on the north-east border of Marbach , Central Saxony district , 2 km west of the Altzella monastery .
location
The castle hill is to the left of the Freiberger Mulde , not far from where the Marienbach flows into the Freiberger Mulde.
description
The castle hill is a narrow, more than 100 m long rock spur that slopes steeply on three sides and merges into a gently sloping plateau to the southeast. There is a section trench between the rock spur and the plateau. Access to the rock spur is made more difficult by a mound of earth raised on top of it.
In the first half of the 12th century there was a hilltop castle on the rock spur . Section trenches and mounds are remnants of former fortifications.
The name Burgberg, as well as the name of the castle mill on the opposite bank of the Mulde , as well as the field name the Große Burgwiese, were passed down by the vernacular . Documentary evidence of the existence of a castle at this point does not exist.
Archaeological excavations have not yet taken place on the ground monument .
history
North of the Freiberg Mulde was loosely populated land by Slavs, the fertile central Saxon loess hill country, the southern foothills of the Lommatzscher care .
The uninhabited border forest Miriquidi was south of the hollow . which extended to the Ore Mountains ridge. The emergence of the castle complex and its decline coincide with the medieval eastern settlement in the 12th century. This can be seen from ceramics readings that are dated to the 11th to 13th centuries. In 1185 at the latest, probably much earlier, the facility no longer existed. This can be inferred from a boundary description of the Altzella monastery, in which a castle located directly on the northern border of the monastery territory would have been mentioned with certainty.
There is a close connection with the documented Benedictine monastery Alte Cell , a few kilometers further south in the Zellwald .
literature
- Feodor Schreiter: The castle hill near Gleisberg . in: Mitteilungen des Freiberg Altertumsverein, Heft 45, 1903, pp. 20 ff.
- Alfred Moschkau : The treasure in the castle hill near Gleisberg , in: Moschkau, Saxonia, Bd. 1 1876, p. 189
Individual evidence
- ^ Werner Coblenz : in Walter Schlesinger (ed.): Handbook of the historical cities of Germany , eighth volume, p. 4f, Stuttgart 1965
- ^ Olaf Bastian, Ralf-Uwe Syrbe: Natural spaces in Saxony - an overview , in: Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz (Hrsg.): Landschaftsgliederungen in Sachsen .