List of castles and fortifications in the Ohm Mountains

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The list of castles and fortifications is a directory of historical castles , waiting areas and other fortifications on and on the ridge of the Ohm Mountains in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia .

backgrounds

The Ohm Mountains are up to 533 meters high shell limestone mountains in the northeastern part of the Eichsfeld district between the northwestern shell limestone framing of the Thuringian basin near Leinefelde-Worbis and the Harz . On the northern edge of the Ohm Mountains ran the tribal border between Thuringian and Saxon tribes, which was probably protected by a Landwehr. Even today, this settlement boundary forms the language boundary between Low German and Central German dialect in Eichsfeld . The medieval Landwehr ran east of the Ohm Mountains between Eichsfeld in Electoral Mainz and the county of Hohnstein .

List of fortifications

The list is sorted by fortifications along the layer level of the Ohm Mountains in clockwise direction starting at Worbis. The fortifications on the two witness mountains Harburg and Hasenburg south-east of the Ohmgebirge were included.

Place / location Surname Type Time of origin Special features
State of preservation 		image
Worbis Worbis Castle Moated castle before 1289 today of the rent office 60x15transparent spacer.svg
Worbis Knickelberg Kink before 1289 Part of a Landwehr northeast of Worbis 60x15transparent spacer.svg
Wintzingerode Mühlhausen Castle Spurburg Ramparts, ditches, a
high medieval complex 		60x15transparent spacer.svg
Wintzingerode Bodenstein Castle Spurburg 11th century 0702247013 floor stone.jpg
Trogberg Wintzingerode Watch tower Round hill as part of a Landwehr 60x15transparent spacer.svg
Baffles Wehnder waiting room
or poker room 		Watch tower 1430 as part of the Duderstädter Landwehr Wehnder Warte 01.JPG
Baffles Round moose Moated castle received nothing 60x15transparent spacer.svg
Brehme Schwedenschanze ev. Wallburg unclear fastening system 60x15transparent spacer.svg
Brehme Wait in the grass forest Watch tower after 1440? completed control room unclear 60x15transparent spacer.svg
Holungen Urbenschanze Small high medieval fortification,
possibly part of a Landwehr 		60x15transparent spacer.svg
Holungen Holunger kink Kink before 1432 Part of a Landwehr 60x15transparent spacer.svg
Hauroden Kink Part of a Landwehr 60x15transparent spacer.svg
Haynrode Matzenburg Rampart Mentioned in 1545 nothing left 60x15transparent spacer.svg
Haynrode Hasenburg Hilltop castle before 1073 Stone Age hilltop settlement,
early medieval castle complex 		Hasenburg, Burgtor (2000) .JPG
Haynrode Harburg Hilltop castle 1073 Harburg - Wall Remains.jpg
Haynrode Kink in the direction of the Warteberg Kink Part of a Landwehr 60x15transparent spacer.svg
Latitude Wallburg on the Klei Wallburg prehistoric people's castle 60x15transparent spacer.svg
Kirchworbis Wood bend towards Langenberg Kink Part of a Landwehr 60x15transparent spacer.svg

The following castles are questionable as there are hardly any traces and no reliable written evidence is known:

  • Matzenburg near Haynrode
  • Wildungen Castle near Brehme

literature

  • Paul Grimm and Wolfgang Timpel: The prehistoric and early historical fortifications of the Worbis district. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte special edition, Worbis 1966
  • Paul Grimm: To the Landwehr of the upper Eichsfeld. Study on European prehistory and early history. (Festschrift H. Jankuhn) Neumünster 1968, pp. 180–187
  • Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : The desert areas of the Eichsfeld: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of justice and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. Göttingen (O. Hendel) 1903