Upper castle chapel ruins of the Reichsburg Kyffhausen

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The upper castle chapel ruin of the Reichsburg Kyffhausen was located on the current site of the Kaiser Wilhelm monument in the Steinthaleben district of the Kyffhäuserland community not far from the city of Bad Frankenhausen in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia .

history

The ruins of the chapel have been built over by the Kaiser Wilhelm monument.

There are literary references to the former and other buildings

The ring wall of the upper castle had only one entrance through the Erfurt Gate that was still in place. It ended in the northeast in a now in ruins square tower. The last Burgmanns apartments were located below this curtain wall to the east of the moat of the guard tower , which had been blasted into the rock , where columns and a stone staircase that led deeper down were recently found. The Burgmann apartments mentioned above were located there in 1445.

That was noted, door system , Chapel, keep and Palas and the square housing in the Kyffhausen Castle each a group of adjoining buildings represented in each castle complexes.

In the vicinity of the outer gate, the keep, the hall and the chapel as well as the residential tower and similar buildings will have stood. The castle garden and the cemetery were also located there .

The 176 meter deep castle well on the northern curtain wall was surrounded by residential and farm buildings.

Another ditch that has been cut into sections separates the western part of the upper castle. There were the gate tower and the drawbridge .

The square keep of the upper castle, which is also called Barbarossaturm, should be dedicated to Friedrich I. This tower had an external staircase that gave access to the tower on the second floor.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Churches in the Karst-Südharz-Kyffhäusergebirge Retrieved on May 13, 2015
  2. ↑ Fred Dittmann: Castles in the Kyffhäuser Mountains. Graphic art publisher "Kyffhäuser" Kelbra, 2nd edition. 1990, P 64-87 IV-4-7 3005, pp. 14 and 15.

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 51.4 ″  N , 11 ° 6 ′ 30 ″  E