Ruin Stein (Saxony)
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| Creation time : | 13th century, first mentioned in 1327 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Castle rest | |
| Standing position : | Ministerials, nobles | |
| Place: | Oelsnitz / Vogtl. - Plan sweat | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 25 '40.4 " N , 12 ° 6' 6.9" E | |
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The Stein ruin is the ruin of a spur castle on the lakeshore of the Pirk dam near the Planschwitz district of the city of Oelsnitz / Vogtl. in the Vogtlandkreis in Saxony .
history
The castle was built by the ministerial family , the bailiffs von Plauen , and like the nearby Planschwitz Castle , belonged to the lordly castle complexes and was first mentioned in 1327 as "munitio lapis" owned by Heinrich von Machwitz , who secured the sovereignty on behalf of the bailiffs .
In the following years the castle lost its importance as a border fortification. In 1358 it regained value after the loss of the southern Vogtland to the Wettins and was expanded again at the beginning of the 15th century until it finally lost its military importance at the end of the 15th century. In 1519 it was lent to the von Zedtwitz brothers by Duke Johann von Sachsen . The castle was destroyed in the Thirty Years War . The castle complex was inhabited until the 18th century and the farmyard was operated as a forecourt .
description
The castle complex, formerly on a rock spur above the White Elster , has a core structure of 26 by 22.5 meters and was protected by a 6.5-meter-wide section trench carved into the rock , in front of which the rest of a round tower with an outer diameter extends south 4.2 meters and a wall thickness of 0.5 meters. In front of the moat there was an outer wall with bastions suitable for firearms . The two-room palas of the castle complex had a partial basement and had a surrounding wall on three sides of the square.
The castle ruins, which have been protected as a ground monument since October 15, 1959 , are partially flooded by the water of the Pirk dam and can only be partially seen.
literature
- Michael Rudolf: Castles and palaces in Vogtland . 1998.
- Gerhard Cheap , Heinz Müller, Richard Gruhl: Castles - Witnesses of Saxon History . Verlag Degener & Co., 1998 Neustadt ad Aisch, ISBN 3-76864-191-0 , pp. 130-131.
- Gerhard Cheap: Directory of the high and late medieval castles in Saxony . Leipzig and Dresden 2002.
Web links
- Ruin Stein in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
- Ruin stone. In: Plauen and the middle Vogtland (= values of our homeland . Volume 44). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1986, p. 170.
- Heyko Dehn: Stein ruin . In: Historical Saxony. The portal for the palaces, castles and historical ruins in the Free State of Saxony, at www.heykodehn.de