Riddagsburg

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The Riddagsburg (actually Rikdagsburg ) was a castle in the area of ​​today's city of Mansfeld . It is a desert eight kilometers west of Mansfeld near Gorenzen in the Lower Harz .

history

Markgraf Rikdag of Meißen , Graf also in northern Hassegau and southern schwabengau, Agnat the Wettins (Buziker) had extensive allodium in these districts . The core of this appraisal seems to have been the castle between Gorenzen and Möllendorf, which is located on a mountain ridge that slopes slowly to the east and which was actually called Rikdagsburg. The village of Ritzgerode ( mentioned as Rihdagesrot in 1046 ), nine kilometers away, is also believed to have been one of Rikdag's foundations. Spangenberg claims that Ritzgerode was a suburb of Riddagsburg that only developed into a small village at the end of the 15th century.

In 1137 the Riddagsburg belonged to the Gerbstedt monastery . According to Spangenberg , a collegiate collegiate church of St. Johannis is said to have existed on the Riddagsburg “ago” . Since the Gerbstedt monastery was also consecrated to the Baptist, there is a possibility that the Riddagsburg was a kind of preliminary foundation of Gerbstedt. The Riddagsburg is already owned by the Counts of Mansfeld around 1270 , who documented it here in 1273. The complex must have been abandoned at the end of the 15th century.

Spangenberg saw the structural remains that had already decayed in 1477 and now almost completely disappeared in 1558. In the Mansfeld estate from 1501, the Riddagsburg and its accessories came to the Counts of Mansfeld-Vorderort.

literature

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  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Halle district . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, p. 103.
  • P. Grimm: Prehistoric and early historical castle walls of the districts of Halle and Magdeburg . 1958.
  • E. Heinze: The development of the Pfalzgrafschaft Saxony . In: Saxony-Anhalt . I, 1925.
  • Rudolf Pörtner: The Roman Empire of the Germans . Munich 1970, p. 75.
  • Alexander Thon: Barbarossaburg, Kaiserpfalz, Königspfalz or Casimirschloß? Studies on the relevance and validity of the term "Pfalz" in the High Middle Ages using the example of (Kaisers-) Lautern . In: Kaiserslauter Yearbook for Palatinate History and Folklore. Kaiserslautern January 2001, pp. 109–144.
  • Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the province of Saxony etc. Dd. 1/4, pp. 122–125. 1882 ff.

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 5.7 "  N , 11 ° 23 ′ 41.3"  E