Eichicht Castle
The Castle Eichicht is a palace complex with the address Schlossstraße 1 in the district Eichicht the community Kaulsdorf in Saalfeld-Rudolstadt in Thuringia . She goes to a medieval castle back to help protect the Saale crossings had been built and the leading past road.
location
The castle with outer bailey is 275 meters above sea level above the Eichicht district on a steeply sloping mountain spur directly above the confluence of the Loquitz and the Saale . As a landmark of the place, the former castle and the later palace have significantly shaped its development.
history
In 1331 the builders of the hill fort, the Lords of Eichhicht, were mentioned for the first time. The castle was first mentioned in 1383 as the seat of a Holbach zu Eichicht. A castle chapel has been handed down in writing for the year 1464 .
When the castle came into the possession of the von Beulwitz family , a Thuringian noble family , is not known. Presumably it was destroyed in the Thirty Years War .
In 1696 a large-scale reconstruction of the castle took place, which is indicated by a year in a fireplace. In 1873 it was described as derelict. After the vacancy, the complex was restored by the Reisner family from 1920 to 1923 according to plans by Bodo Ebhardt .
From 1945 onwards, following expropriation, the castle became public property and served first as a retirement home, then from 1948 to 1963 as a children's recreation home and from 1963 to 1990 as an apprenticeship home for the Deutsche Reichsbahn . From 1978 to 1984 various renovation work with roof repairs, new windows and tower repairs took place.
From 2000 to 2015 the castle was inhabited by Burkhard Berndt and Constanze Dölz and offered as a holiday home. In 2015 it was acquired by the insurance broker Max Buchholz, who lives in it with his wife, a doctor.
investment
The original castle was a three-wing, closed complex around a small inner courtyard ( core castle ). The upper floors rose on a massive substructure in exposed framework . The complex had a castle chapel and an outer bailey, which consisted of two houses on both sides of the castle garden. It also included a barn, a pond and a very small house.
literature
- Thomas Bienert: Medieval castles in Thuringia . Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-631-1 , p. 233-234 .
- Michael Köhler : Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . Jenzig-Verlag, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 91 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 28.2 " N , 11 ° 26 ′ 25" E