Rammelburg

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Rammelburg is a district of the city of Mansfeld in the state of Saxony-Anhalt . It is located in the valley of the Wipper , about 5 kilometers northeast of the spa town of Wippra . There is a tunnel and a stop on the Klostermansfeld – Wippra railway line in the village . The place Rammelburg lies between the places Friesdorf and Biesenrode . The Rammelburg castle overlooks the village.

history

On July 1, 1950, Rammelburg was incorporated into Friesdorf. On March 6, 2009 it was incorporated into Mansfeld together with Friesdorf.

Rammelburg Castle

View of Rammelburg Castle

The Rammelburg lies in the middle of the wooded surroundings of the Lower Harz Mountains on a building site made of phyllite and was built around the 13th century. The main castle is built in a trapezoidal shape measuring 50 × 70 meters. At the east and west points of the main castle there are two round keep in Romanesque style. Today the castle presents itself in its main features as a Renaissance building . The reason for this lies in a serious fire in 1894 that severely damaged the main building. The imperial court building officer Ihne arranged for the restoration to be carried out from 1901 to 1904.

A first documentary mention comes from the year 1259. From the content of this documentary mention it can be deduced that a castle must have existed before 1190 in the possession of the Counts of Arnstein . In 1296 the Rammelburg and the Arnstein lordship fell to the Counts of Falkenstein and a few years later to the Counts of Regenstein . In 1400, by marriage, the Rammelburg became part of the ownership of the Counts of Mansfeld , who were sole owners from 1430 to 1602. Thereafter, the Rammelburg was permanently pledged to Caspar von Berlepsch as the seat of the office . In the course of its history, the castle had other owners, including the von Stammer family in 1637 and the von Friesen family from 1737 to 1903 . From 1903 until the expropriation in 1945, Rammelburg Castle was owned by the von Heimburg family .

It became known around 1698 in relation to the theologian Gottfried Arnold and his unparty church and heretic history . The local pastor had given assistance in writing the scriptures.

During the GDR the castle served as a children's home and rehabilitation clinic until the 1990s. This imposing building is currently not in use and is vacant.

literature

  • Hermann Schotte: Rammelburger Chronik. History of the old Mansfeld office of Rammelburg and the spots, villages and estates belonging to it Wippra, Abberode, Biesenrode , Braunschwende, Forst Braunschwende, Friesdorf, Haida, Hermerode, Hilkenschwende, Königerode, Popperode, Rammelburg, Ritzgerode, Steinbrücken , Halle 1906, new edition 2005 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Statistical Office (Ed.): Municipalities 1994 and their changes since 01.01.1948 in the new federal states . Metzler-Poeschel, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8246-0321-7 .
  2. ↑ StBA: Area changes from January 2nd to December 31st, 2009
  3. ↑ Schloss Rammelburg in the online travel guide .
  4. ↑ Castles and Palaces of the Harz Region / Volume 2, pages 20–22, 4th edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-8423-7730-1 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 36 '  N , 11 ° 20'  E