Rechenberg castle ruins
| Rechenberg castle ruins | ||
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 Rechenberg town center with church, town hall and castle hill |
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| Alternative name (s): | Schanze, castle ruins, castle, castle hill | |
| Creation time : | around 1270 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Manor house, wall and moat remains | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Construction: | Truss | |
| Place: | Rechenberg bee mill | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 44 '9.8 " N , 13 ° 33' 22.3" E | |
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The castle ruins Rechenberg , also called Schanze, Burgruine, Schloss, Burgberg , are the ruins of a hilltop castle on a mountain spur facing west over the Freiberg Mulde in the east of the municipality of Rechenberg-Bienenmühle in the district of Central Saxony .
history
The castle, built on an older fortification, which consisted of a three-part wooden castle with ramparts and a ditch system and served as protection for a mountain crossing, was first mentioned in 1270 with Apitz de Rechenberg . A Heinrich von Rechenberg also appears as a witness in this document. It was the ancestral seat of the von Rechenberg family , who from 1290 participated in the development of the state in the Silesian Duchy of Glogau and acquired extensive property there.
The original purpose of the castle was to secure the territory of the Bohemian Hrabischitzer , also called Riesenburger, opposite the Wettin castle Frauenstein and to control the way from the Riesenburg into Saxon areas. The Rechenberger Feste was expanded into a stone castle on the front rock core in the first half of the 13th century. The word rake most likely goes back to the coat of arms symbol of the hay rake of the Hrabischitzer. The word part `` berg '' is very likely to indicate German (Franconian) settlers.
The Wettins acquired the entire rule from the Hrabischitzern in 1389 and from 1459 Rechenberg finally remains with Saxony.
Castle -like renovations took place in the 14th century and 1571 . In 1586 the castle burned down as a result of careless use of light, and since then it has fallen into ruin. The keep / residential tower still standing on the castle rock in the romantic era was depicted by several well-known painters of the time. Later it was torn down and the Lower Castle was probably built from its stones as a manor at the foot of the castle hill.
The area of the medieval weir system Rechenberg was placed under soil monument protection in 1969 .
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investment
The original system of the castle with its three cores and an area of around 70 by 150 meters can be regarded as one of the largest medieval fortifications in the Ore Mountains. The small stone castle on the westernmost rock was probably only built after the eastern part of the facility fell into disrepair.
The castle complex was separated from the village by a mighty neck moat and was probably reached via a drawbridge . From the courtyard you can see the old palas , the top floor of which is made of half-timbered buildings and which is the tallest building on the castle grounds. Next to it is another long house that is leaning against one of the two defense towers . Both buildings now serve as a youth hostel.
literature
- Georg Pilk : History of Rechenberg Castle. In: New Archive for Saxon History . Vol. 16, 1895, pp. 94-108, ( digitized version ).
- Volkmar Geupel : The protected ground monuments in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district (= small writings of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden. H. 3, ISSN 0232-5446 ). State Museum for Prehistory, Dresden 1983.
- Dietmar Werner, Günther Arnold: Legends about our castles - Rechenberg castle ruins. In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter. 5 1982, ISSN 0232-6078 , pp. 125-127.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Description of the history in: Dietmar Werner, Günther Arnold: Legends about our castles - Rechenberg castle ruins. In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter. 5 1982, pp. 125-127, here p. 127.
- ^ Home history association Rechenberg-Bienenmühle: The fortifications of Rechenberg. Retrieved January 7, 2015.