Slate lock
The slate castle was located in Sonneborn in the Gotha district in Thuringia .
location
The slate castle stood in the Nessen lowlands and was a low castle in the arable farming area east of Gotha .
history
The Sonneborn castle was constantly rebuilt from 1100, so that the slate castle developed over time. What was left was a beautiful, slate-covered moated castle with four wings and a round tower. The owner was the von Wangenheim family . They were expropriated, arrested and imprisoned after 1945. The slate lock was demolished on the basis of Order No. 209 of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany . The remains of the foundation wall of the corner tower and the moat have been preserved .
See also
Web links
Commons : Slate Lock - Collection of images, videos, and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Bienert: Medieval castles in Thuringia , Wartberg-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-86134-631-1 , p. 83/84
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 28.9 ″ N , 10 ° 35 ′ 17.9 ″ E