Kaulsdorf Castle (Saale)

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Kaulsdorf Castle / Saale

The Kaulsdorf Castle is located in the same place in Saalfeld-Rudolstadt in Thuringia .

location

The church village Kaulsdorf (Saale) is located on the right bank of the Saale in the eastern Saaleknie and the federal road 85 , which used to be a trade and military route from north to south, in an extended valley with high mountains between meadows and fields.

Kaulsdorf Castle stands below Eichicht Castle on a spur-like rock ledge above the Altstrasse from Saalfeld to Nuremberg .

Building

The building is reminiscent of a residential tower-like building block on a T-shaped floor plan with a semicircular tower on the short side. Parts of the building are equipped with half-timbering . Traces of a ditch can still be seen, over which a drawbridge once led. It was probably a fortified mansion of the nobility.

history

The place Chulisdorf is a donation from the Archbishop of Cologne in 1074 to the Abbey of Saalfeld . Later the place and the aristocratic seat came into the possession of the Counts of Orlamünde . In 1346 they gave the village on the Saale to the burgraves of Kirchberg . A castle, additionally protected by moats, was located on the site of the castle, which has been well preserved to this day. 1346 was called a settlement yard and probably meant the fortified complex.

Kaulsdorf Castle

Originally Kaulsdorf belonged to the County of Orlamünde as a Wettin fief . In 1426 the Elector of Saxony acquired the complex and the village. The Orlamünder Landesteil Lauenstein was given to the margraviate Brandenburg-Bayreuth in 1427 under the Bohemian overlordship and sold in 1438 to the Black Burgers , of these 1503 to the Mansfeld-Vorderort . As early as 1506, the Mansfelds sold the place to the von Thüna people as a fiefdom for 12,000 guilders subject to the knight's arm. In 1560 the von Thüna Kaulsdorf bought those of Enzenberg (a third of the usable area), with a dispute between the Wettiners, Margraves and Mansfelders over the feudal rule of individual villages. In 1600 Lauenstein became an imperial fiefdom of Thüna, who sold it to the margraves in 1622, and Kaulsdorf became their (disputed) accessory. The estate fell to the von Streitberg family in 1631 , and to the von Dobeneck family in 1645 . The current castle was built in 1678 on the foundations of the castle. A Dobenck's coat of arms hangs in the church. The Dorbenck united their property in 1687 with the Konitz property, which had existed since around 1370.

In practice, the Wettins exercised the suzerainty from the 16th to 18th centuries. In 1776 the Mansfelders were able to enforce their demands against Sachsen-Saalfeld at the Reichshofrat . After its extinction in 1780, Electoral Saxony occupied the exclave, citing a pledge by the Ernestines from 1567, which then fell back to them in 1787 after protests by the margraves at the Reichshofrat. After their government resigned in 1791, the exclave fell to Prussia , which also bought the estate in 1795 and sold it on to farmers and citizens in parcels. In 1814 the castle was also sold. The community used it as a poor house in the late 19th to the 20th century. In 1920 it was sold again. The system went to the Jena gynecologist Dr. Walter Treupel. A year later he had an octagonal half-timbered tower attached to the tower. Since then it has been 25 meters high. During this time the castle was also used as a restaurant. Today it is privately owned.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Kaulsdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Thomas Bienert: Medieval castles in Thuringia . Wartberg-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-86134-631-1 , p. 233
  2. ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and prehistoric living spaces Jenzig-Verlag 2001 p. 153/1954 ISBN 3-910141-43-9
  3. ↑ Castle
  4. ^ Heinz Voigt: The picturesque banks of the Saale . Jena City Museum, 1979, M / 9/79, p. 35/36

Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 21.1 ″  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 50.5 ″  E