Rauenstein Castle (Ore Mountains)

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Rauenstein Castle from the opposite side of the valley

Rauenstein Castle is a castle in the Rauenstein district of the city of Pockau-Lengefeld ( Ore Mountains ). The system was used to monitor the Flöha transition .

history

Rauenstein Castle from the south
Rauenstein Castle from the east

The castle was first mentioned in 1323, and based on archaeological investigations, it is assumed that the castle was first built around 1200. The first gentlemen from Rauenstein were the Schellenbergers. After a few changes of rulership, the castle became the property of the Electorate of Saxony in 1567. The established office of Rauenstein was struck in 1596 in Selva . Major structural changes were made around 1630. The road tunnel also dates from this time. From 1651 to 1743 the castle was leased to the von Römer family , who had become more wealthy in the Schneeberg area through silver mining . The owner Christian August Hähnel , who had acquired Rauenstein in 1816, his nephew Wolfgang Freiherr von Herder (grandson of the poet Johann Gottfried Herder and owner from 1843 to 1853) and his cousin Wilhelm Freiherr von Herder were members of the Saxon state parliament . The following owner Gottfried Freiherr von Herder was a German Conservative member of the Reichstag from 1893 to 1898 . During the Second World War valuable books from Leipzig were stored, which were brought to the Soviet Union after the war.

After the expropriation in the course of the land reform in 1945, the castle served as a children's rest home and has been in the family ownership of the Barons von Herder again since 1999 after being bought back by the Central Ore Mountains. The current owner is Carl Wilhelm von Herder (* 1926), the great-great-grandson of the poet Johann Gottfried von Herder. The castle can only be viewed from the outside.

  • East Side

  • West side

  • Lithograph 1839

literature

  • Rauenstein . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 8th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1821, pp. 790–797.
  • Richard Steche : Rauenstein. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 5th issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Marienberg . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1885, p. 25.

Web links

Commons : Schloss Rauenstein  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Manors and castles in the kingdom of Saxony: Rauenstein  - sources and full texts

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 44.5 ″  N , 13 ° 12 ′ 3.5 ″  E