Burgstall Lugsburg

Burgstall Lugsburg
Alternative name (s):	Losburg, Luxburg
Creation time :	probably during the 12th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, rocky location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Wunsiedel- Luisenburg
Geographical location	50 ° 0 '36.3 "  N , 11 ° 59' 40.5"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 0 '36.3 "  N , 11 ° 59' 40.5"  E
Height:	750  m above sea level NN

The Burgstall Lugsburg , also Lo (o) sburg, Luxburg, Luchsburg , is an abandoned hilltop castle at 750  m above sea level. NN on the area of ​​the Luisenburg rock labyrinth near Wunsiedel in Upper Franconia .

history

The small rock castle was probably built in the 12th century and abandoned early. Heinrich Gradl reports that the castle was destroyed as a “robbery nest” by the city of Eger . For a long time, the city of Eger had to fight off the surrounding landed gentry. Assaults also started from the Epprechtstein . Albrecht Nothaft von Thierstein sold the castle stables to the Nuremberg burgrave in 1352 . The local researcher Johann Theodor Benjamin Helfrecht describes the remains, mainly in the form of a wall corner with a loopholes and a staircase. Johann Christoph Stierlein made a true-to-scale map including sketches. With the development of the area for the rock labyrinth, the history of the castle was also dealt with, which was dealt with in one of the first performances of the Luisenburg Festival . Today only a few low and partly overgrown walls can be found.

This northern system can be distinguished from another small system to the south, of which, however, no traces of the wall have been preserved. In its place is the Mariannenhöhe viewing platform with a romanticizing artificial ruin built from the ruins of the castle .

A legend of the robber barons on the castle, who amassed an enormous treasure of gold and hidden it in the castle's cellar, has been handed down by Ludwig Bechstein . Furthermore, a legend describes how the Cheb people were able to penetrate the castle with a ruse and destroy it. The undiscovered "Burgvögtin" rushed out of the burning castle and has been wandering as a ghost through the neighboring forests ever since. According to Helfrecht, people from Eger disguised themselves like the castle people who had moved out and used this ruse to kill the remaining castle crew and set the castle on fire. Gustav Schmidt describes other legends of treasures and a ghost princess in underground vaults. Another legend from Kapellenberg tells of a nun who fled to her lover in the Lugsburg. She drowned her child in the moor and has appeared there as a ghost ever since.

literature

• Heinrich Gradl : History of the Egerland until 1437 . Prague 1893.
• Elisabeth Jäger : The Luxburg near Wunsiedel . In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia . Volume 41, Bayreuth 1961, pp. 121-149.
• Johann Theodor Benjamin Helfrecht : Ruins, antiquities and still standing locksmiths on and on the Fichtelgebirge. One try. 1795, pp. 44-48. ( online )
• Bernhard Hermann Röttger : District of Wunsiedel and urban district of Marktredwitz . In: Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern , VIII. Administrative Region Upper Franconia, Volume 1 . Munich 1954, ISBN 3-486-41941-2 , pp. 166f.
• Harald Stark : Castles in the Fichtel Mountains . In: Contributions to the history and regional studies of the Fichtelgebirge . Issue 10. Wunsiedel 1988, pp. 40-42.
• Hans Vollet, Kathrin Heckel: The ruins drawings of the Plassenburg cartographer Johann Christoph Stierlein . 1987.

Web links

• Lugsburg on the Fichtelgebirge internet platform

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ludwig Bechstein: Legends from German lands . ISBN 3-89555-144-9 , p. 365. ( online )
2. ^ Andreas Reichold: Legends from Bavaria's north-eastern regions . Hof 1976, p. 68f.
3. ↑ Gustav Schmidt: Upper Franconian saga treasure . Gondrom Verlag, Bindlach 1988, pp. 110-113.