Bertholdsburg Castle
The Berthold Castle is an early modern castle in the city Schleusingen in Hildburghausen in Thuringia . It is located on the western edge of the old town above the confluence of the Alder and Nahe rivers . The castle was named after Berthold VII , the most important member of the Henneberg family.
Today the castle is managed by the Thuringian Palaces and Gardens Foundation . It is home to a natural history museum and a local history museum. The 38 meter high main tower from 1597 is accessible as a lookout tower.
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The castle consists of four wings, the enclosed courtyard, seven towers (of the former nine) and the castle garden to the west of the building. The Schleusinger town church is on the east side.
Bertholdsburg Castle from the south
Lookout tower on the southeast corner of the courtyard
View from the observation tower to the southwest
Entrance gate from 1631/32 on the north side
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history
The castle complex was built from 1226 to 1232 by the Counts of Henneberg ( Poppo VII. ). After the Hennebergische Lande had been divided into three lines in 1274, the Bertholdsburg became the seat of the Counts of Henneberg-Schleusingen . Under Wilhelm VI. the complex got its present renaissance appearance around 1500 . In 1583 the Hennebergers died out with Count Georg Ernst in the male line and the areas around the cities of Schleusingen and Suhl fell to Electoral Saxony and in 1657 to Saxony-Zeitz . They were still administered from Bertholdsburg, where the Saxon supervisory office was located until 1815/16.
On February 15, 1685 and October 11, 1765, fires broke out in the castle, which fortunately could be put out in good time.
In 1815 the Saxon office of Schleusingen and Bertholdsburg fell to Prussia as a result of the Congress of Vienna , which created the Schleusingen district . It existed until 1952 and was administered from Bertholdsburg until 1929, before the district seat was moved to Suhl .
Museums
Bertholdsburg Castle has been a museum since 1934. At first it only comprised regional historical collections with around 3,000 exhibits from the history of southern Thuringia , Henneberg and the city of Schleusingen today .
The Natural History Museum was founded in 1988 and comprises around 100,000 exhibits. These include fossils , minerals , bone finds and the like. The development of Thuringia in the different phases of the earth's history is documented . The museum was completely redesigned in 2000 and is one of the most modern in Thuringia.
Web links
- Homepage of the museums in the castle
- Thuringian Palaces and Gardens Foundation, Bertholdsburg Castle
- Object collection of the Natural History Museum in Bertholdsburg Castle on museum-digital
- Bertholdsburg Castle as a 3D model in SketchUp's 3D warehouse
- Bertholdsburg Castle at Burgenarchiv.de
Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 33 " N , 10 ° 44 ′ 57" E