Herda Castle
The Herda Castle was a Renaissance castle and manor house of a corresponding manor in the municipality Herda , now a district of Werra-Suhl Valley in Wartburgkreis in Thuringia . It was demolished in 1950 during the GDR era. The Kratzeroda Vorwerk has belonged to the castle since the 16th century .
Location and history
The castle was on the northern edge of the village, near the church on the road to the neighboring village of Gerstungen .
The castle in Herda is considered to be the ancestral seat of the Lords of Herda , who appeared as castle men and service nobility in many landgrave castles and as governors of the monasteries in Hersfeld and Fulda . The Herdaer castle was in the administration building Breitenbach , whose administrative headquarters, the castle Breitenbach about three kilometers away, in the floodplain of Suhl as Wasserburg existed. The Herda local nobility can also be documented as castle men of this castle, for example in documents from the period from 1350 to 1354.
After looting and destruction in the Peasants 'War and the Thirty Years' War , the castle was renovated in the Renaissance style in 1678 . The Herdaer Schloss und Gut was owned by Caspar Wilhelm von Herda (from the black short trunk) in 1686, the widely branched family owned three lines at that time. The possession of the Brandenburg castle ruins in the neighboring village of Lauchröden was of great importance to von Herda . Although this building was uninhabitable in ruins, the titles and rights associated with it were considered valuable.
After the Second World War , the von Herda family was expelled from their property, which had been expropriated without compensation, the castle was described by party officials as a despicable symbol of feudalism and its demolition ordered in 1950.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herda (noble family)
- ^ A b Fritz Jäger: Ortschronik von Herda and Hausbreitenbach Comment = unpublished, around 1990 . Herda.
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 56.5 ″ N , 10 ° 5 ′ 42.6 ″ E