Upper Sachsenburg

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(Upper) Sachsenburg
East side of the Palas (2005)

East side of the Palas (2005)

Alternative name (s): Guardian Mountain
Creation time : around 1252 to 1310
Castle type : Spurburg
Conservation status: ruin
Standing position : Count
Place: Sachsenburg
Geographical location 51 ° 17 '48.4 "  N , 11 ° 9' 43.2"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 17 '48.4 "  N , 11 ° 9' 43.2"  E
Height: 250  m above sea level NN
Upper Sachsenburg (Thuringia)
Upper Sachsenburg

The Upper Sachsenburg is a ruined castle near Sachsenburg , a district of the city and rural community An der Schmücke in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia .

The keep and the ruins of the palace are still preserved from the medieval castle .

Geographical location

The ruins of the Spornburg are located north above the village of the same name on the east-south-east roof of the Hainleite ridge . In the forest high above the Thuringian Gate through which the Unstrut flows , it is located about 450 m northwest of the Lower Sachsenburg (also known as Hakenburg).

history

The castle is believed to have been built in the second half of the 13th century by Count Siegfried von Anhalt (ruled 1252–1298). After the death of the last Ludowinger Landgrave Heinrich Raspe (1241–1247), he occupied the Palatinate County of Saxony .

According to the finds available, the castle had a Frankish predecessor from the 7th and 8th centuries. The castle secured access to the central Thuringian basin and served to strengthen the Lower Sachsenburg, which was built in the 12th century .

It is doubtful whether the razing of Saxinberg Castle as stipulated in the Weißenfels Treaty of 1249 actually took place. The castle must have existed in 1287 because it was successfully defended against Adolf I of Nassau (1277–1298). In 1319 a distinction was first made between the Upper and Lower Sachsenburg.

Through the marriage of Dietrich von Hohnstein with Sophia von Anhalt, the castle came to the Counts of Hohnstein in 1316 . The castle also came to the Counts of Beichlingen from 1335 to 1407 through marriage . From 1407 the castle was owned by the Wettin Landgraves of Thuringia and Dukes of Saxony . In contrast to the Hakenburg, the upper castle remained outside the district of the Sachsenburg district and was awarded in 1539 by Duke Georg von Sachsen to the von Bendeleben family, who lived in Kannawurf and lived there until the Thirty Years War . It remained in the possession of the von Bendeleben family until it died out in 1825.

The dilapidated complex was abandoned around 1640. In 1890 a restaurant was built in the ruins of the Palas, which burned out in 1945. On April 15, 1992, the Sachsenburgenverein was founded, which is exclusively dedicated to the preservation and protection of the castle ruins of the Upper and Lower Sachsenburg. They have been owned by the Thuringian Palaces and Gardens Foundation since 2002 .

  • Keep (2005)

  • North side of the Palas (2005)

  • Interior of the Palas (2005)

literature

Web links

Commons : Obere Sachsenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ The first loan from those of Bendeleben can be traced back to the end of the 15th century together with one from Hayn.
  3. ↑ reference
  4. ↑ History of the Saxon castles on the homepage of the Sachsenburg Association