Königsburg ruin
| Königsburg ruin | ||
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 The remains of the royal castle in summer 2012 |
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| Creation time : | First mentioned in 1312 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Koenigshütte | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 44 '30.3 " N , 10 ° 46' 1.9" E | |
| Height: | 460 m above sea level NHN | |
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The ruins of Königsburg im Harz are the ruins of a hilltop castle southeast of Königshütte , a district of the town of Oberharz am Brocken , in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt .
Geographical location
The ruin is located in the Harz / Saxony-Anhalt nature park on the outskirts of the village of Königshütte, southwest below the Katzenberg ( 475.8 m above sea level ) at around 460 m above sea level. The confluence of the Warm and Cold Bode is about 250 m to the northeast . From the ruins you can see the Wurmberg and Brocken , among other things .
history
In 1312 the complex was first mentioned in a document as " castrum Königshof " when Bishop Albrecht von Halberstadt bought the castle from the squire Heinrich von Botvelde. In 1324 there is another mention as "castrum Köningshof acqisivit", then it became quiet around the castle, which in 1709 was first referred to as a royal castle . At that time the facility had already fallen into ruin.
When Paul Höfer carried out extensive excavations between 1898 and 1901, he assumed that he had the long-sought Palatinate Bodfeld in front of him. He published about it several times. In 1931, advances in soil research demonstrated this to be an error by Carl Schuchhardt and confirmed a little later by Paul Grimm , who found that the finds, especially the ceramics, are no older than the 13th century. Although these research results of the 1930s were consistently recognized in scientific research, today in Königshütte it is still advertised that the Königsburg is the Jagdpfalz Bodfeld and one of the most historic places in the Harz Mountains.
Plant and hiking
Remnants of the keep and several moats and ramparts are still customers of the former castle complex . The Königsburg ruin is included as No. 41 in the system of stamping points of the Harz hiking nobility.
gallery
Foundation walls of the palace (left) and inner parts of the castle (right) with Wurmberg in the background
Explanatory board on the castle ruins with stamp 41 of the Harz hiking pin : Königsburg ruin
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Carl Schuchhardt : The castle in the course of world history. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, Potsdam 1931, p. 227.
- ↑ Harzer Wanderadel: stamp point 41 / ruins Königsburg , on harzer-wandernadel.de