Hutsburg
| Hutsburg | ||
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 The castle gate |
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| Alternative name (s): | Hutsberg | |
| Creation time : | around 1050 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Wall and moat remains | |
| Standing position : | Local nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone masonry | |
| Place: | Helmershausen | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 33 '0.7 " N , 10 ° 14' 36.2" E | |
| Height: | 639.3 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Hutsburg is a high medieval hill fort in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district . It is located at 639.3 m above sea level. NHN high Hutsberg , a striking basalt cone above the right bank of the Herpf near Helmershausen (municipality of Rhönblick ) in the Rhön . Because of the proximity to the border ( GDR / FRG ), the castle was inaccessible for decades and was forgotten.
history
According to oral tradition, the Hutsberg is said to have had a fortification as early as the 4th century. From this time there is neither written evidence nor building remains.
The oldest parts of the Hutsburg probably date from the end of the 12th century, but it was first mentioned in documents in 1273. At that time the Hutsburg had sunk into a robber baron's nest and was captured and destroyed around 1275 by Count Berthold von Henneberg -Schleusingen with the support of the cities of Erfurt , Nuremberg and Würzburg after King Rudolph ordered the roads to be kept free. In 1383, the Counts of Henneberg had the Hutsburg rebuilt as an important strategic base on the southwest flank of their territory and used their own castle men to manage it. The castle was pledged several times in the following years, and on May 13, 1525 it was finally destroyed by the rebellious peasants in the Peasants' War.
The complex consisted of a rectangular residential building ( Palas ), a northern corner tower, four shell towers and a 10 m high and 1.7 m thick circular wall with an outer moat. Today's ruin consists of considerable remains of the curtain wall and the large rectangular residential building from the 14th century. It was freely accessible to visitors, but is currently (2014) closed around the outer walls by a fence built by the Kaltennordheim Forestry Office.
Overgrown inner courtyard of the castle complex
Upper retaining stone (tang) of a gate wing
Wall moat between two castle walls
Hill on which the Hutsburg is located
literature
- Norbert Hübscher, Hans-Joachim Nonn: Castle Hutsberg. sn, Ilmenau, 1992.
- Erich Meffert: The Hutsberg. In: Thuringia. 4th vol., Heft 5, 1928, ZDB -ID 349680-6 , pp. 65-69.
Web links
- Ruin Hutsburg with map at rhoenline.de
- Entry on Hutsburg in the private database "Alle Burgen".
- Historical reconstruction drawing at burgrebaus.de