Bocksberg Castle
| Bocksberg | ||
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 View of the mountain from the east, including the tower of the baroque church of Schleid. |
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| Castle type : | Höhenburg, summit location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Noble | |
| Place: | Schleid (Rhön) | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 41 '48.1 " N , 9 ° 56' 26.1" E | |
| Height: | 422.5 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle point Bockberg is an Outbound medieval hilltop castle on the top of conical mountain Bockberg ( 422.5 m above sea level. NN ) in the Rhön at Geisa and Schleid .
history
The castle is assumed to be the seat of the Lords of Schleid, who played an important role in the Upper Ulster Valley in the High and Late Middle Ages. The original parish of the Ulstertal was located in Schleid at that time. The noble families of the Rockenstuhl office belonged to the Buch nobility , they were vassals of the Fulda monastery and served the abbots as warriors, administrators and court lords. In the 1960s, conservationists from the Bad Salzungen district carried out a small excavation. Pottery, brick and mortar remnants could be recovered.
description
No recognizable remains of the castle complex have been preserved. On the summit with a leveled surface there is now a crucifix as a summit cross. The access path to the summit should coincide with the original castle path, it winds clockwise around the mountain. The mountain cone rising steeply from the valley floor is located approximately in the middle between the Rockenstuhl mountain, 1.5 km to the south, on which the Fulda district castle Rockenstuhl was located in the Middle Ages until the Thirty Years' War. The official seat was then moved to the city of Geisa, which is barely two kilometers north of the Bocksberg. In addition to its significance for the Lords of Schleid, the Bocksberg was also of strategic importance for the places mentioned. In addition, the main connection between Geisa and the Rockenstuhl led along the eastern slope of the Bocksberg.
literature
- Adelbert Schröter: Country by the road. The history of the Catholic parishes in the Thuringian Rhön. 3. Edition. St. Benno Verlag, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-7462-0430-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
- ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . Jenzig-Verlag, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , Altenstein, Stein, p. 211 .