Oberpöllnitz

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Oberpöllnitz
City of Triptis
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 53 "  N , 11 ° 52 ′ 50"  E
Height : 359 m
Incorporation : July 1, 1950
Postal code : 07819
Area code : 036482

Oberpöllnitz is a district of the town of Triptis in the Saale-Orla district in Thuringia .

location

The district of Oberpöllnitz is located on the northeastern outskirts of Triptis on the eastern edge of the Orlasenke . Oberpöllnitz is in a convenient location. The district is located east of the federal highway 9 with its junction Triptis. The federal road 281 has been running northwest of the town center since a renovation in 2006. It gives road users a connection to Bundesstraße 2 . The Gera – Saalfeld railway line runs southeast of the town center . There are fertile soils around the place, which merge into red sandstone weathered soils.

history

The first documentary mention took place on December 29, 1238. Since that time the von Pölnitz family has been resident in the area and later divided their property into the manors Ober-, Mittel- , Nieder- , Buch- , Stein- and Mühlpöllnitz .

Attractions

Round castle in Oberpöllnitz, photo 2015
Church in Oberpöllnitz, photo 2011

In the higher part of the village, visible from afar, is the Oberpöllnitz round castle . It owes its name to its almost round floor plan. The castle has a small inner courtyard. On the north side of the inner courtyard there is an octagonal stair tower (with 100 steps) that allows access to various floors of the castle. The tower spire towers over the palace. The castle is part of a former manor ensemble of various residential and farm buildings in the village center, most of which no longer exist today.

A fortified castle with a moat was first mentioned in a document in 1341 as a "round building with a small inner courtyard". In the 16th century, the Lords of Pöllnitz rebuilt the castle into a simple Renaissance castle. Volute gables, obelisks, grisaille paintings and decorations inside the palace date from this period. Today these too are mostly destroyed or in a deplorable condition. The keystone in the gate announces that the Oberpöllnitz round castle was renovated in 1848; it was built in 1414, you can read there too. Further renovations took place in the 19th and 20th centuries.

From 1928 to 1945, Albert Abicht , a member of the Reichstag , was the leaseholder of the manor and castle, and the Aster family had been the owner since around 1800. In 1945, under Soviet occupation, the property was expropriated without compensation. The palace and estate had already taken in refugee families from the east. In 1972 the castle was cleared and closed by the building authorities due to "significant repair backlogs", as well as the clearance for looting.

In 1977, pastor Siebenhaar from the neighboring Evangelical church was able to prevent the castle building from being blown up. Since then the castle has been left to decay and is in great danger of collapsing. In 1986, parts of the outer walls and the roof collapsed.

After the fall of the Wall , the German Foundation for Monument Protection helped with considerable funds from 1992 to repair the mighty slate roof, the walls and the interior ceilings. From 2006 100 new wooden windows were installed.

In 2012 the association "Rundschlossfreunde eV" was founded.

The castle in Oberpöllnitz was one of the ancestral seats of the von Pölnitz family . Today the castle is privately owned and is carefully renovated.

The manor owned a cutting and grinding mill in Mühlpöllnitz operated with water power from the Pöllnitzbach , which was converted into a feed company in 1953 by the local LPG . In 1990 the mill was stopped and the mill building was sold. After the fall of the Wall , the external appearance was restored.

To the southeast of the castle is the Protestant village church with the remains of a renaissance portal made of sandstone. The church is almost circularly surrounded by a stone wall and a churchyard. In 2011 the roof structure and facade of the church were extensively repaired. The large slate roof turret, which houses the tower clock and the bell, is striking.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Oberpöllnitz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages. A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 208.
  2. ↑ Michael Köhler : Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 169.
  3. ↑ Round lock. (PDF; 92 kB). (As of December 18, 2008).
  4. ↑ This can also be seen on the cover of the first issue of the “ Monuments ” magazine : cf. here . (As of August 31, 2012).
  5. ↑ First attempts to save the Renaissance castle in Oberpöllnitz. In: Monuments , 1992, ISSN  0941-7125 .
  6. ↑ A photo montage shows the success of the castle construction work from 1992 to 2010. See here . (As of August 31, 2012).
  7. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses. The nobility born in Germany (primeval nobility). Part A: Noble houses of the knightly German landed aristocracy, who were proven by 1400 at the latest. 40, 1941, ZDB -ID 134443-2 , p. 406.
  8. ↑ Günter Steiniger: Mills on the Auma, the Triebes, the Leuba and in the Güldetal. With the mills on Kesselbach, Finkenbach, Pöllnitzbach, Struthbach, Floßbach and the Seebach. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2011, ISBN 978-3-86777-296-9 , pp. 61-63.