Zinnberg ruins
| Zinnberg ruins | ||
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 Remains of the keep (inside) |
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| Alternative name (s): | Czynnemburg | |
| Creation time : | around 1170 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Bergfriedrest and foundation walls | |
| Standing position : | Ministeriale, counts | |
| Construction: | Granulite, lime mortar | |
| Place: | Penig tin mountain | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 54 '56 " N , 12 ° 41' 13" E | |
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The ruin Zinnberg , formerly also called Czynnemburg , is the ruin of a spur castle on a flat, wooded mountain spur above the eastern high bank of the Zwickauer Mulde . The castle rock is located on the western edge of the Zinnberg district, about 2 kilometers south of the city of Penig in the central Saxony district .
history
The castle was probably built around 1170 to secure conquered Slavic territories and is later mentioned as the seat of the castle counts of Altenburg .
In 1267 a "Heinricus de Cinnenberg" was mentioned for the first time as a ministerial officer of the Burgraves of Altenburg and in 1290 a fort "castellanus in Zinnenberc" was named by the Marquis of Meißen . After the last appearance of the Altenburger Zinnenberg line, the castle fell to the Rochsburg line of the Altenburg burgraves in 1299 .
After the male line of the Altenburg burgraves died out in 1329, the castle was inherited by the Burgraves of Leisnig . The castle began to fall into disrepair in the 15th century. It is unclear whether it was a robber baron's castle. The reasons for the downfall of Zinnberg Castle are also unclear.
investment
A 4.8 meter high stump of the keep with a wall thickness of up to 4.5 meters as well as the remains of the foundation walls of the former castle complex on an area of 32 by 12 meters with a castle moat in front are still preserved. The main castle was 17 by 50 meters, the curtain wall was about 90 meters in length. The keep and the curtain wall were made of granulite stone and filled with lime mortar in a shell construction. The outside of the donjon stump has a peculiar multiple gradation (gradual tapering upwards).
Around 2010, parts of the castle area were still on private property (allotment garden).
Excavation finds
Ceramic shards, a Romanesque ring brooch made of bronze, fragments of spurs , horseshoes, bolt tips and keys were found here.
The book Penig von A - Z, Ein Stadtlexikon (2002) quotes the historical find situation as follows: "When E. Berger excavated the ruins of Zinnburg in 1932, shards of vessels, horseshoes, part of an old set of teeth (for horses) and a square and arrowhead came up pointed at the front, to days ".
legend
When the castles Zinnberg and Drachenfels went down , the legend "The Liebchenstein" existed. In this there is a knight "Haimburg von Waldenburg".
literature
- André Thieme : The Burggrafschaft Altenburg. Studies on office and rule in the transition from the high to the late Middle Ages (= writings on Saxon regional history. 2). Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-934565-98-0 (Also: Dresden, Universität, Dissertation, 2000).
- Volkmar Geupel : The protected ground monuments in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district (= small writings of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden. H. 3, ISSN 0232-5446 ). State Museum for Prehistory, Dresden 1983.
- Steffen Winkler : The Liebchenstein . In: Special edition series: Legends and legendary stories from Glauchau and the surrounding area , Museum and Art Collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau, 1981, pp. 4–5 and p. 39.
- Reconstructed map of the lordship (s) Penig (with Rochsburg and Burg Zinnberg ) in 1436 when the rulership was transferred from the Altenburg burgraves to the burgraves of Leisnig due to marriage (this double rule corresponds to the older Drachenfels rule and came after the burgraves of Leisnig ultimately to the gentlemen of Schönburg), In: Horst Schwabe: "Mein Burgstädt", Riedel-Verlag Röhrsdorf, 1993, without ISBN, p. 9.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steffen Winkler: The Liebchenstein . In: Special edition series (legends and legendary stories from Glauchau and the surrounding area), museum and art collection, Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau, 1981, GDR, excavation finds on castles Zinnberg and Drachenfels p. 5
- ↑ Steffen Winkler: The Liebchenstein . In: Special edition series (legends and legendary stories from Glauchau and the surrounding area), museum and art collection, Schloss Hinterglauchau, Glauchau, 1981, GDR, excavation finds on castles Zinnberg and Drachenfels p. 5
- ↑ Klaus Oehmig, Margret Neumann, Anett Tomoscheit: "Penig von A - Z, Ein Stadtlexikon", 2002, ISBN 3-9808333-2-1 , keyword "Excavation finds", p. 12