Ebersburg (Harz)
| Ebersburg | ||
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 Keep (2004) |
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| Alternative name (s): | Ebersberg | |
| Creation time : | 12th Century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Keep, remains of the gate system | |
| Standing position : | Count Palatine | |
| Place: | Herrmannsacker | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 33 '15.5 " N , 10 ° 52' 48.8" E | |
| Height: | 387.5 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Ebersburg , originally Ebersberg called, is in the resin contained ruins of a hilltop castle in the Thuringian district of Nordhausen . It is located near Sägemühle , a hamlet in the Harztor community . The castle was built in the 12th century and is one of the Allzunah castles .
Geographical location
The Ebersburg ruins are located in the southern Harz in the southern Harz nature park . The Thyra tributary Krebsbach flows southwest past the Burgberg ( 387.5 m above sea level ) . The center of the municipality of Herrmannsacker is around 1000 m south and the hamlet of Sägemühle is 280 m south-southeast at the foot of the Burgberg.
history
In a document issued in 1189 or 1190, Archbishop Konrad von Mainz announced that he had redeemed the pledged Ebersberg Castle and its income from his relative, the Count Palatinate of Saxony, and given it as a fief. The widespread assumption that Ebersburg under the against Nordhausen of the count and later Landgrave conducted active acquisition policy Hermann I of Thuringia off around the year 1182 or was rebuilt so that can not be maintained. It is more likely that this castle was originally built into the former royal forest to protect the Rottleberode court in Mainz , where it also served to threaten the imperial city of Nordhausen. The Ebersburg and Furra Castle in Großfurra in the Wippertal are fortifications of the Thuringian Landgraves in Northern Thuringia. That is why the Landgrave's hereditary marshal, mentioned in 1207, was sitting at the castle as a ministerial officer (the name of the marshals von Ebersberg was derived from him). But he was replaced in 1246. With the death of Heinrich Raspe (Gegenkönig from 1246 to 1247) the older Thuringian landgrave house died out in 1247. The rulership came through inheritance to the Wettins .
In 1249, Count Siegfried von Anhalt, who claimed the castle as his wife's marriage property, succeeded in taking possession of the castle after a feud. After further fighting, the Wettin family again owned the castle in 1326 as a fiefdom to the Counts of Stolberg .
The castle began to fall into disrepair as early as the 16th century.
The castle ruins have been run by the Association for the Living Middle Ages since 2006. V. repaired.
investment
Of the medieval complex, the ruins of the gate system of the main castle and the 19 m high keep with a wall thickness of up to 4.5 m are still present today.
Opportunities for viewing and hiking
From the Ebersburg the view falls down to Herrmannsacker and across to Kyffhäuser with the Kyffhäuser monument . The ruin is included as No. 100 in the system of stamping points of the Harz hiking pin.
literature
- Peter Kuhlbrodt : The Ebersburg near Herrmannsacker, Nordhausen district. District boards of the societies for the preservation of monuments and local history in the Kulturbund der DDR, Nordhausen 1984, p. 16.
- Berent Schwineköper (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 11: Province of Saxony Anhalt (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 314). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-31402-9 .
- Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. 2nd, expanded and revised edition. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2003, ISBN 3-910141-56-0 , pp. 96-97.
- Jörg Brückner : Between imperial class and class rule. The Counts of Stolberg [… ], dissertation, TU Chemnitz, 2003. Therein chap. 2.4.7 Ebersberg, pp. 47–49, on qucosa.de (PDF; 3.9 MB)
Web links
- Ebersburg castle ruins , at the Association for Lively Middle Ages e. V. , on ebersburg-harz.de
- Ebersburg , in reconstruction drawings of German castles , on burgrebaus.de
- Ebersburg castle ruins , pictures and history, on harz-mansfeld-kyffhaeuser.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saxony-Anhalt viewer of the State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation ( notes )
- ↑ Wilfried Warsitzka: The Thuringian Landgrave , Verlag Dr. Bussert & Stadeler, 2004, ISBN 3-932906-22-5 , pp. 196, 202-205
- ↑ Harzer Wanderadel: stamp point 100 / Ebersburg , on harzer-wandernadel.de