Hinterburg (Schlitz)

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Hinterburg
Ensemble: Gable side of the rear castle with stair tower (left), rear tower with the Count's forester's house and attached small tower (center), town church (in the background to the left of the rear tower).

Ensemble: Gable side of the rear castle with stair tower (left), rear tower with the Count's forester's house and attached small tower (center), town church (in the background to the left of the rear tower).

Creation time : Mentioned in 1493
Castle type : Location
Conservation status: received in newer form
Place: slot
Geographical location 50 ° 40 '22.4 "  N , 9 ° 33' 37.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 40 '22.4 "  N , 9 ° 33' 37.7"  E
Hinterburg (Hesse)
Hinterburg

The rear castle with Hinterturm is a castle in the city slot in the Vogelsbergkreis in central Hesse and one of the five Slasher Castles Hinterburg, Vorderburg , Ottoburg and bay castle that included in the city walls medieval formed fortification, to which must be something outlying Castle Hall Castle belongs .

description

The Hinterburg was mentioned for the first time in 1493 and rebuilt as a three-storey building from 1561 to 1565, rebuilt in 1647 and housed an old people's home of the Graf Görtzische Foundation in its main and ancillary building, the Count's Forester's House , and in the Schachtenburg from 1950 to the end of 2015. In 2016 the building complex was sold together with the Schachtenburg to three private investors. The Hinterburg building complex has housed a multi-generation facility since 2017.

The structure of the main building of the rear castle shows a pure renaissance style with magnificent gables and a stair tower in the middle on the long side with an octagonal half-timbered structure and a baroque slate roof.

Back tower

The background is a tower built in the 14th century, 36 meters high keep with underlying dungeons , served as a guard room and was originally only be entered via a swing-bridge from 1553 built housing the rear castle. Since the 17th century it wore a baroque slate hood and in 1906 it was given a stone hood. Today the back tower is a popular observation tower that is only accessible with an elevator . Since 1991 the back tower has been used as a Schlitzer Christmas candle in the run-up to Christmas .

  • The gable side of the rear castle building, on the right the stair tower

  • The "largest Christmas candle in the world": the covered back tower

  • The back tower and the Count's forester's house

literature

  • Rudolf Knappe: Medieval castles in Hesse: 800 castles, castle ruins and castle sites. 3. Edition. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-228-6 , pp. 229-230.
  • City of Schlitz: Castle city of Schlitz - historical tour . Schlitz, 1997.

Web links

Commons : Hinterburg  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Off for senior citizens' pen at the end of the year - "disapproval" by the city council . In: www.fuldaerzeitung.de . ( fuldaerzeitung.de [accessed on April 10, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Three buyers for Schlitzer Burgen: multi-generation facility and hotel . In: Osthessen | News . November 16, 2016 ( osthessen-news.de [accessed April 10, 2018]).