Castle site Schlösschen (Bad Salzungen)
| Castle site Schlösschen | ||
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 View from the south of the vineyard and the Haadwiesen |
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| Castle type : | Höhenburg, summit location | |
| Conservation status: | Castle stable, wall and moat remains | |
| Place: | bad Salzungen | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 49 '15.3 " N , 10 ° 13' 36.2" E | |
| Height: | 300 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Schlösschen is a defunct summit castle of as yet undetermined time in Bad Salzungen in Thuringia .
Location and function
The castle site is 300 m above sea level. NN beyond the Werra at about 20 meters above the valley floor on the top of the vineyard . The hill, a western side summit of Heimshöhe , offered itself to control an old old road running from the north towards Eisenach over the western moorland to Salzungen. The function of the castle as a road post is therefore most likely, since the topography of the area clearly shows both the nearby ford point on the Werra and the ascent to the top of the pass just east of the castle point.
description
Ernst Julius Walch's description, published as early as 1811, is of great value as a source, as it describes the state of the castle hill in front of the quarry. It provides clues to a cellar and a tower hill :
- Right above this quarry at the highest altitude is quite a plain, on which one can still clearly see a hill overgrown with bushes and trees, which is surrounded by a deep moat. Some depressions and caves suggest a sunken cellar. Since there are traces of a ditch from a larger periphery , even at some distance, I can not otherwise believe that this is the place where an old mountain castle stood. I don't know who lived in it, maybe Edele von Salza and most likely the Grundhof is a remnant of her former possessions. As is well known, several things that the Lords of Frankenstein had came to Friedrich Edlen von Salza, including Altenstein.
Archaeological research
As a result of the later intensive commercial mining of sandstone, the castle grounds were gradually seized by the quarry and partially destroyed. The remains of the castles, considered to be parts of a wall and moat fortification, were measured in the 1960s by the archaeological monument curator G. Sennhenn during a systematic inventory of the castles in the old district of Bad Salzungen.
The trench profile, which can now only be seen in a few places on the slope edge, was leveled above ground with excavated earth from the quarry. A graphic reconstruction shows an oval floor plan of the entire complex.
literature
- Werner Eberhardt: The Hohe Strasse between Salzungen and Gotha (Schweinaer Strasse) . In: Museum of Prehistory and Early History of Thuringia (ed.): Prehistory and local research . Issue 24. Weimar 1987, p. 27-33 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wartburg district, south . In: Sven Ostritz (Hrsg.): Archaeological hiking guide Thuringia . No. 12 . Beier & Beran, Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-941171-41-1 , pp. 72-73 .
- ↑ Ernst Julius Walch: Historical, statistical, geographical and topographical description of the royal and ducal Saxon houses and lands in general and of the Saxe-Coburg-Meiningian house and its lands in particular . Schneider and Weigel, Nuremberg 1811, p. 258 .
- ↑ Peter Donath: Excavations and ground monument maintenance (Suhl district) . In: Museum for Prehistory and Early History (Ed.): Prehistory and local research . Issue 2. Weimar 1965, p. 5 .