Kalthausen (desert)

The Vorwerk Kaltenhausen was once a moated castle and is now a deserted village in the district of the hamlet Thalbürgel the community Burgel in Saale-Holzland in Thuringia .

location

The flat former castle hill from the Kalthausen monastery is still surrounded by a circular moat that was once silted up with trees and bushes . The desert is at the end of the western boundary of the Thalbürgel district on a local road (former trade routes Erfurt - Altenburg / Regensburg - Leipzig ) to the Gniebsdorf district with a connection to the federal highway 7 .

history

The castle probably existed before the monastery was founded in 1133. It was used to control and protect the track ford (called Quere) when crossing Regensburger and Altenburger Straße in both directions. Monks have converted the castle site into a farm yard and an outbuilding. After the Reformation , the Freihof Gniebsdorf became the economic center of the newly formed Thalbürgel domain and Kalthausen gradually fell desolate.

Individual evidence

^ EO Kretschmar: From old trade routes in East Thuringia. Thüringer Chronik-Verlag, 2012, without ISBN, special print from Thüringer Jahrbuch 1926, pp. 1–13
↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology 9: Archaeological Hiking Guide Thuringia-H. 9, ISBN 978-3-937517-51-3 , p. 46

50.934092 11.741638Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 2.7 ″ N , 11 ° 44 ′ 29.9 ″ E

[1] EO Kretschmar: From old trade routes in East Thuringia. Thüringer Chronik-Verlag, 2012, without ISBN, special print from Thüringer Jahrbuch 1926, pp. 1–13

[2] State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology 9: Archaeological Hiking Guide Thuringia-H. 9, ISBN 978-3-937517-51-3 , p. 46