Koenitz Castle
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| Alternative name (s): | Koenitz Castle | |
| Creation time : | Castle around 800, castle around 1562 | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | lock | |
| Place: | Unterwellenborn - Koenitz | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 39 '5.9 " N , 11 ° 29' 22.9" E | |
| Height: | 345 m above sea level NN | |
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The Koenitz Castle , also called Koenitz Castle , is a former hilltop castle and today's castle on the Schlossberg at 345 m above sea level. NN in the district of Könitz of the community Unterwellenborn in the district of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt in Thuringia . The castle is the landmark of Koenitz.
Possibly the castle was built around 800 as a wooden castle. It was mentioned for the first time in 1125 when Adalbert and Christine von Conz (Könitz) handed over the Koenice possessions to the Saalfeld Monastery , whereby they kept the castle in use for life. In Koenitz there was another castle, the old castle .
In 1209 the castle became the property of the Counts of Schwarzburg . After a change of ownership, the castle came to the von Holbach family in 1438 and the castle tower was given a stone mantle in 1450.
Around 1562 the castle was rebuilt into a palace in the Renaissance style, completed under Veit Dietrich von Holbach. After the Holbach family died out, the castle fell back to the Counts of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in 1608 . During the Thirty Years War , the Swedish Field Marshal Johan Banér set up his headquarters here in 1640 ; On the Red Mountain his 40,000 Swedes faced 50,000 imperial rulers under Piccolomini , but there was no battle. After the troops withdrew, the keep was burned out and the whole area looted. From 1663–70 the castle served as the widow's seat of Countess Emilie . Later the owners changed several times.
From 1892 the researcher Wilhelm Reiss had the castle repaired. After several changes of ownership, the castle came to the state of Thuringia in 1918. After the end of the war in 1945 the castle was used for various purposes until it burned down in 1951 and was completely destroyed. Between 1954 and 1955 the castle was rebuilt, served as a “home after work”, after the fall of the Wall in 1989 as a “psychiatric nursing home” and has been privately owned by Salzburg dentist Robert Rudolf Mels-Colloredo-Günhartinger since 2006 .
