Enzenburg
| Enzenburg | ||
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 Enzenburg (display board) |
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| Alternative name (s): | Weissenburg | |
| Creation time : | 12th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Castle stable, wall and hill remains | |
| Place: | Crane field | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 52 '24.5 " N , 11 ° 11' 27.5" E | |
| Height: | 315 m above sea level NN | |
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The Enzenburg or Weißenburg is a late medieval tower hill castle (Motte) near Kranichfeld in the Weimarer Land in Thuringia .
Geographical location
The castle was on the southern edge of the valley of the Tonndorfbach at 315 m above sea level. NN about 2.5 kilometers north of Kranichfeld. You can find the castle in the forest coming from Erfurt and Nauendorf , southeast of the Hohenfelden reservoir, on the left of the road to Kranichfeld, diagonally opposite the parking lot “Am Stausee Hohenfelden”.
description
It was a tower hill castle with a rounded-rectangular shape. The former structure had an extension of 15 to 12 meters with two ramparts and ditches facing northwest and west . The castle is said to have existed in the 12th and 13th centuries.
The system could have been used to monitor medieval traffic between Erfurt and Kranichfeld. It is still unclear whether Ludwig von Enzenberg, mentioned in 1385, was related to the castle. A village in Enzenrode , named 1143, should also be considered. In 1599, the Enzeröder lake was drained, where the Hohenfelden reservoir is located today . Today the area is a ground monument .
literature
- Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . 2nd expanded and revised edition. Jenzig-Verlag, Jena 2003, ISBN 3-910141-56-0 , p. 104.
- Display board of the Thuringian State Office for Archeology and Monument Preservation Weimar on site on the road from Nauendorf to Kranichfeld