Kapellenberg (Kleinjena)

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The Kapellenberg near Kleinjena is a hill south of the Naumburg district of Kleinjena on the western bank of the Unstrut just before it flows into the Saale . At the turn of the first to the second millennium an important existed here Castle of Ekkehardiner that urbs genes or Geniun was called. Before the year 1028 it was moved to Naumburg.

history

church

The ancestral seat, or at least an important castle of the Ekkehardines, whose first known representative, Count Ekkehard, appears in a document from Otto I in 949, was most likely on the Kapellenberg. The Annalista Saxo reports in his imperial chronicle from around 1150 that Margrave Ekkehard I was buried in 1002 “ in his castle called Gene in the diocese of Mainz at the point where the Saale and Unstrut flow together ”.

Probably soon after the turn of the millennium, but certainly before 1028, the castle in Kleinjena together with the house monastery and a merchant settlement below the castle was abandoned, a new castle was founded on the Domberg of Naumburg and in 1028 the bishopric was relocated from Zeitz . This made the system in Kleinjena largely insignificant and died at a time that was not precisely known, but probably as early as the 12th century.

archeology

On the site, which has been built with single-family houses since the 1980s, section ramparts have been preserved, but no above-ground traces of the castle buildings. Archaeological exploratory and rescue excavations by the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle in the 1960s and 80s produced a wood-earth construction with a stone wall, ceramics from the 9th / 10th centuries. to 11th century and stone buildings at the northern end of the spur. According to the excavators, “it is, among other things, foundation walls and stone slabs as well as screed (probably floor covering) that should belong to the castle chapel or the palace . "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "in sua urbe nomine Gene in parrochia Mogontiensi, in loco ubi Sala et Unstrod confluunt, sepeliri fecit." Annalista Saxo, MGH SS. Vol. 6, p. 648.

literature

  • Bernd W. Bahn: "... in urbe quae Geniun dicitur". The castles of the Ekkehardinger at the mouth of the Unstrut (1st part). In: Saale-Unstrut-Yearbook. Hall 5.2000, pp. 28–39. ISSN  1431-0791
  • Hansjürgen Brachmann : F 101 Kleinjena, Kr.Naumburg (district Halle) . In: Joachim Herrmann (Hrsg.): Archeology in the German Democratic Republic. Monuments and finds. Urania, Leipzig 1989, Theiss, Stuttgart 1989, p. 744. ISBN 3-8062-0531-0 , ISBN 3-332-00308-9
  • Paul Grimm : Three fortifications of the Ekkehardinger. Archaeological contributions to the problem of count and castle in the 10th century . In: Journal of Archeology. Heidelberg 5.1971, pp. 60-80. ISSN  0044-233X
  • Berthold Schmidt, Waldemar Nitzschke: Excavations and investigations in count castles and monasteries of the 10th to 12th centuries in the central Saale region. Preliminary report . In: excavations and finds. Berlin 27.1982, pp. 190-196. ISSN  0004-8127

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 45 ″  N , 11 ° 46 ′ 36 ″  E