Vienenburg castle ruins

Vienenburg castle ruins
View of the keep through an opening in the curtain wall
Creation time :	around 1300
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Ruins, remains of the keep and the former hall exist
Standing position :	Adelsburg
Place:	Vienenburg, district of Goslar in Lower Saxony
Geographical location	51 ° 56 '51.3 "  N , 10 ° 33' 49.6"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 56 '51.3 "  N , 10 ° 33' 49.6"  E
Height:	165  m

The Vienenburg is the ruin of a hilltop castle on a ridge at 165  m above sea level. NN near Vienenburg in the Goslar district in Lower Saxony .

description

After Bishop Siegfried II of Hildesheim. 1291 Harliburg besiege and grind left, who built Wernigeroder Graf in 1306 with their stones the Vienenburg. The counts sold them to Bishop Gerhard in 1367 . In 1523 she came to the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . Wallenstein conquered Wiedelah from here in 1626 . From 1643 to 1802 it belonged to the Hildesheim Monastery . For his services to the bishopric in 1647, the office of Vienenburg was given to Field Marshal Johannes Ernst Freiherr von Reuschenberg zu Setterich . Until around 1720 the office and the title Drost zu Vienenburg were inherited by the von Reuschenberg family. Some of their sons lived more often at Vienenburg Castle than in their ancestral home, Burg Setterich . During the affiliation to Prussia , however, the castle fell into disrepair and manor buildings were built with the stones. Remains of the keep and the former palace are still present. After restoration in 2010, the 24 meter high keep can now be climbed as a lookout tower .

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  View of the castle around 1850

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  Vienenburg castle ruins, aerial photo (2015)

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  Gatehouse

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  Castle building on the curtain wall

literature

• Hans Adolf Schultz : Burgen und Schlösser des Braunschweiger Land , Braunschweig 1980, Die Vienenburg , pp. 90–91, ISBN 3-87884-012-8
• Margret Zimmermann, Hans Kensche: Castles and palaces in Hildesheimer Land . Hildesheim, 2001, pp. 167-168
• Bernd Sternal, Lisa Berg, Wolfgang Braun: Castles and palaces in the Harz region . Volume 2, Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-5024-3

Web links

Commons : Burgruine Vienenburg  - collection of pictures

• Entry by Stefan Eismann zu Vienenburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
• Description in the Braunschweig Ostfalen region
• The Vienenburg castle ruins in www.ausflugsziel-harz.de
• Reconstruction drawing of the Vienenburg in its medieval state
• Photographs of the Vienenburg castle ruins at the Photo Archive Photo Marburg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Main State Archives Hanover: Certificate No. 6016
2. ↑ The Vienenburg in www.ausflugsziel-harz.de