Leuchtenburg (Tabarz)
| Leuchtenburg | ||
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| Creation time : | around 1250 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, summit location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Local nobility | |
| Place: | Bad Tabarz | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 51 '56.4 " N , 10 ° 29' 33" E | |
| Height: | 600 m above sea level NN | |
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The Leuchtenburg is an abandoned high medieval hill fort on the northern slope of the Schönleite mountain, southwest of Bad Tabarz in the Gotha district on the northern edge of the Thuringian Forest .
location
The Burgstall is located on a small 600 m above sea level. NN high hill about 2 km southwest of Tabarz, directly on the medieval trade and escort road that climbs up to the Grenzwiese - Kleiner Inselsberg pass , today's state road L 1024.
description
The facility had already been partially destroyed by the quarry when excavation work documented the last remains of the wall and found small finds. Stolzenburg Castle , about 200 m away , was located in the immediate vicinity and probably a significant part of the overall complex .
Carl Lerp, who around 1880 was still able to visit the facility in its pristine condition and who was able to find out more about the background through archival work, reports in his guide that the merchants arriving from the south were at a barrier wall with a barrier located there just below the border meadow , and those from the north uphill travelers were only brought to a halt shortly below the Stolzenburg tower . Escort money or road tolls were levied at the respective points . In the robber baron days , the traveling salesmen, who now thought they were safe, were attacked by henchmen who followed the Leuchtenburg. Finally, Lerp also mentions another point to the east, which was known in Tabarz as Kleine Leuchtenburg and which is said to have been the location of another watchtower in order to be able to monitor an existing path into the Lauchatal. Lerp could no longer find any traces of this structure in the area either.
history
The Leuchtenburg was mentioned as a fortification of a Lauchaer (?) Or Lupnitz knight in the Thuringian chronicle of 1418/19 by Eisenach chronicler Johannes Rothe . Its construction time, use and destruction are directly related to the Thuringian-Hessian War of Succession (1247–1263). It is also said to have been renewed again later to secure the escort over the Schönleite Pass on the Kleiner Inselsberg, as a robber barons nest it is said to have caused great damage to trade until it was destroyed again. After Steinbauch, nothing is left of the former castle complex.
Name interpretation
According to local tradition, the name Leuchtenburg refers to the builder - the lords of Laucha or Lupnitz.
literature
- Thomas Bienert: "Burgstelle Leuchtenburg" - Medieval castles in Thuringia . Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-631-1 , p. 84 .
- Michael Köhler: "Leuchtenburg" - Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . Jenzig-Verlag, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 173 .
- Carl Lerp: The summer resort Tabarz (Grosstabarz and Kleintabarz) and the immediate vicinity. A guide for spa guests and tourists . Friedrichroda 1889, p. 101-110 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
- ^ Luise Gerbing : The field names of the Duchy of Gotha and the forest names of the Thuringian Forest between the Weinstrasse in the west and the Schorte (sluice) in the east; on behalf of the Association for Thuringian History and Archeology. and ed. by Luise Gerbing . Jena G. Fischer, 1910 ( archive.org [accessed May 23, 2020]).