Hartenburg

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Hartenburg
Alternative name (s): Hartenberg Castle
Creation time : 10th / 11th century
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Wall system / moat
Standing position : Nobles, counts
Place: Römhild
Geographical location 50 ° 24 '1.1 "  N , 10 ° 35' 30.3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 24 '1.1 "  N , 10 ° 35' 30.3"  E
Height: 404  m above sea level NN
Hartenburg (Thuringia)
Hartenburg

The Hartenburg was a medieval castle in the Römhild district in the Hildburghausen district in Thuringia .

Geographical location

The hilltop castle was on the Hartenberg, a side peak of the Gleichberge (404 m above sea level), between the town of Römhild in the west and the Großer Gleichberg in the southeast.

history

The Hartenburg was in 10./11. Century built. Around 1178 it was under the supervision of a Henneberg castle man. During the main division of the county of Henneberg , the castle became the seat of one of the three lines in 1274, which was named "Henneberg-Hartenberg" after the castle. This line under Count Heinrich IV. Von Henneberg (r. 1274-1317) was, in addition to the Hartenburg and the town of Römhild below, particularly wealthy in the Thuringian Forest .

Already with Berthold X. von Henneberg-Hartenberg (r. 1348-1371), the grandson of Heinrich IV., This Henneberg line died out in 1378. As early as 1371, Berthold X. sold most of the Hartenbergs' possessions, including the Hartenburg, to his relative Hermann IV von Henneberg-Aschach (ruled 1352–1403). After the Würzburg bishop took possession of their ancestral castle in Aschach , the Count of Henneberg-Aschach moved his seat to the Hartenburg in 1402. At that time there was a count's court court on the Hartenburg. In 1417 a chapel was built on the site. A problem with the castle was the difficult supply of water.

The line Henneberg-Aschach was in 1468 in a "Münnerstädter part" under Count Otto III. and a "Römhilder part" shared with the Hartenburg under Count Friedrich II. The latter moved his residence to the town of Römhild, where Glücksburg Castle was built between 1465 and 1491 as a follow-up to Hartenburg. Since then, forest workers have lived on the Hartenburg. When the Römhild line was again divided in 1532, the Hartenburg and the city of Römhild passed to Count Berthold XVI. by Henneberg-Römhild. Due to financial problems, he had to sell his possessions in 1548, a year before his death, to the Counts of Mansfeld , who were related to him . These in turn sold the rule of Römhild with the Hartenburg in 1555 to the Ernestine dukes of Saxony.

The Hartsburg counted in 1566 for Coburg country portion of the duchy of Saxe and fell in Erfurt division in 1572 to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach and the division of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg . After that, from 1633 the castle again belonged to the Sachsen-Coburg-Eisenach line, from 1640 to Sachsen-Altenburg , from 1672 to Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg and since its division in 1680 to the Duchy of Sachsen-Römhild . Duke Heinrich von Sachsen-Römhild had the remains of the Hartenburg completely removed around 1680/81, which is why there are no more remains today.

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 , pp. 138-139.

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