Schnabelsburg
| Schnabelsburg | ||
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 On the spur of the Kohnstein on the right side of the picture was the Schnabelsburg |
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| Alternative name (s): | Snabilburgk, Snabilsburg, Snabilborg, Snabiliborg, Ulrichsburg | |
| Creation time : | 2nd half of the 14th century | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Noble | |
| Place: | Salza - Obersalza | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 32 '4 " N , 10 ° 45' 57.1" E | |
| Height: | 230 m above sea level NN | |
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The Schnabelburg is an Outbound Spur castle in Salza - Upper Salza in the district of Nordhausen in Thuringia . From 1366 the Hohnstein counts had the castle built on a low mountain nose protruding from the Kohnstein . The Snabilsburg or Snabiborg was destroyed as early as 1368 .
When the Schnabelsburg inn was built, the remains of the castle, which, according to the site findings, could only have been very small, were destroyed.
history
In order to consolidate their counts' ownership, the Hohnstein sons of Count Heinrich in Neustadt, Dietrich in Heringen, Bernhard in Klettenberg and Ulrich am Kohnstein decided to build a fortress on the eastern edge of the Kohnstein on the eastern edge of the Kohnstein against the free imperial city of Nordhausen . The client was Count Ulrich Hohnstein and so the "hus Snabilburg" was also known as "Ulrichsburg". Visible from afar, but of small size, the Herrenburg rose, which was completed about 30 meters above the Zorgen lowland and at a height of 230 meters. It consisted of two floors, which were probably made of beech wood. The walls are likely to have consisted of the anhydrite rock of the Kohnstein.
The rooms on the ground floor housed sleeping chambers for 24 miners, the client Ulrich and his family lived on the two floors. The first bailiff, the single knight Wieprecht, moved into the first and second floors of the gypsum tower. The prisoners were locked up in the basement.
The location of the castle was a strategically favorable place: so the old trade and military road, the Zorgeniederung with the Salzaspring up to the imperial city Nordhausen with the villages Salza and Krimderode could be overlooked.
restaurant
With the establishment of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in 1943, the restaurant had to close. From 1945 to 1947 some resettled families were quartered in the former Schnabelsburg, which then became public property. In 1948 the innkeeper Max Eiteljörge and his wife Anni bought the property and ran the restaurant for a short time to the innkeeper Mia Seeber until 1953/54. In April 1955 the haulier Paul Kuhnhold bought the Schnabelsburg, after his death in 1959 his brother Gerhard took over. In 1960 the forest restaurant was finally closed by the city administration. The Kuhnhold family lived in the Schnabelsburg until 1964.
description
The castle was located on a southern branch of the Kohnstein, or on a small 230 m above sea level. NN high mountain spur. The Kohnstein belongs to the place Salza or to the settlement Obersalza . The rather small castle complex was secured against approaching on this spur by a neck ditch with a wall in front. However, the castle site was recently built over, only a remnant of the moat has survived.
literature
- Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . 2nd expanded and revised edition. Jenzig-Verlag, Jena 2003, ISBN 3-910141-56-0 , p. 256.
- Thomas Bienert: Medieval castles in Thuringia - 430 castles, castle ruins and fortifications . 1st edition. Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-631-1 , p. 190.
- Josef Tauchmann: The Schnabelsburg am Kohnstein through the centuries . In: Contributions to local history from the city and district of Nordhausen (issue 20/1995) .
- Fritz Tanne, Vincent Eisfeld (ed.): The death of Count von Hohnstein. Or: the destruction of the Schnabelsburg near Nordhausen ( = Nordhausen novels; 1 ). Berlin: epubli, 2019. ISBN 978-3746783000 .