Oppershausen Castle
| Oppershausen Castle | ||
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 Saxon quarter milestone from 1745 in front of the old manor house |
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| Alternative name (s): | Oppershausen Castle | |
| Creation time : | 1222 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Moat, mansion | |
| Standing position : | Local nobility | |
| Place: | Oppershausen | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 8 '19.3 " N , 10 ° 26' 42.4" E | |
| Height: | 230 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Oppershausen is a former moated castle , later a castle-like mansion in Oppershausen (main road 22) in Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis ( Thuringia ).
history
Heinrich von Oprechtshusen is considered the earliest verifiable local nobleman in Oppershausen, his name was mentioned in 1222. In 1287 an office holder (advocatius) acts on behalf of the Archbishop of Mainz in Ophershusen. 1323 owned B. v. Mulhusen Allod in Opprechtishusen.
The moated castle, of which the remains of the foundation wall and parts of the southern moat are still preserved, was built in 1395 by Richard von Sebecke, also called Seebach , presumably as a successor to a high medieval predecessor complex . In 1754 the manor house, which is still preserved today, was built on the castle grounds. The former residential tower was demolished in 1973 because it was dilapidated.
After the "castle" and manor was in the possession of the Lords of Seebach from 1408 to 1895 and from 1918 in the possession of Anton Knöpfel and his son, the latter were expropriated without compensation in 1945 and the building became municipal property. After the fall of the Wall , the manor house, popularly known as the "Castle", was renovated and now houses apartments and the municipal administration.
description
The younger mansion is surrounded to the east and south by a 3 m wide, now silted-up moat. In the west, this merges into a 10 m wide, older and heavily flattened trench section. The north side borders on the village, about 120 m away is the village church. A rectangular tower with rounded corners and still existing younger buildings formed the west side of the castle area. In front of these buildings there was a flattened earth wall up to 9 m wide and 0.8 m high as external fortification. The conceivable continuation of the wall on the south and east sides is no longer recognizable due to the overbuilding. The so-called manor house could have been built over the previously silted ditch.
Remarks
The village of Oppershausen itself had a village fortification, a landwehr running to the west led to the edge of the forest, where the tower hill castle Rondell monitored the incoming traffic from the Werra valley over the pass on the Struppeiche. The Landwehr is considered to be the southern continuation of the Mühlhausen Landgraben.
literature
- Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified pre- and medieval living spaces , Jenzig-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 197.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified pre- and medieval living spaces. Jenzig-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 197.
- ↑ Iris Henning: In the half-timbered dress. Former aristocratic seats in the region: Oppershausen Castle. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung. July 16, 2011.
- ↑ Paul Grimm, Wolfgang Timpel The prehistoric and early historical fortifications of the Mühlhausen district , Mühlhausen 1972, p. 24 (site plan), 57–58.
- ↑ Paul Grimm, Wolfgang Timpel The prehistoric and early historical fortifications of the Mühlhausen district , Mühlhausen 1972, Fig. 1 (site plan of the military forces, castles and fortifications in the Mühlhausen district), 57–59.