Siersburg (castle)
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| Alternative name (s): | Siersberg Castle | |
| Creation time : | around 1100 to 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, mountain location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Landesburg of the Duchy of Lorraine | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone / cuboid | |
| Place: | Siersburg | |
| Geographical location | 49 ° 22 '8 " N , 6 ° 40' 4" E | |
| Height: | 297.8 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Siersburg (also Siersberg Castle ) is the ruins of a high medieval hilltop castle in the Siersburg district of the Saarland community of Rehlingen-Siersburg in the Saarlouis district , Germany . It was used as the state castle of the Duchy of Lorraine and, as the former seat of the Lords of Siersberg-Dillingen, has a close historical connection to the old castle in Dillingen / Saar on the opposite side of the Saar.
Location and structure
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The castle complex of the Siersburg is visible from afar on a steep hilltop made of easily erodable Upper Buntsandstein next to Upper Muschelkalk high above the Nied valley shortly before its confluence with the Saar . The Saar valley narrows below Rehlingen due to a sudden change in rock. While the river valley as far as Rehlingen is cut into the easily erodible layers of the red sandstone, layers of shell limestone begin below Rehlingen and have broken into the "Merziger Graben". To the north of a geological fault, which extends from the Bürener Eichertswald via the Siersburg to Beckingen , the rock layers have sunk up to 120 m, so that the Upper Buntsandstein meets the Upper Muschelkalk at the Siersburg. The course of the fault is clearly visible through the saddle between the Siersberg and the 308.2 m high, neighboring Gauberg.
Already in prehistoric times there was a need for military security in this area. For the Hallstatt period (8th – 6th centuries BC) there is archaeological evidence of a multiple staggered section fortification on the peninsula-like mountain range of the Limberg, which rises to a height of approximately 359 m on the Saar .
On the Itzbacher Königsberg (344.7 m), which is adjacent to Limberg, investigations into a prehistoric height fortification by the State Monuments Office of Saarland began in 2010. The ramparts that existed there contained well-preserved remains of a dry stone wall made of large broken sandstones without wood stiffening. The exposed walls have a width of 1.80 m and a still preserved height of 1.40 m. At the rear of the walls there is a 6.40 m wide ramp made of earth and stones, which could be used to reach the top of the wall in the event of a defense. At the front of the wall a wide trench is carved into the rock. Ceramic shards indicate the late Bronze Age or the Iron Age . The excavations and their evaluations will continue.
After the conquest of the region by the Romans under their commander Julius Caesar in the Gallic Wars , the castle knew in the Gallo-Roman Vicus Contiomagus , at today's rents (city Dillingen / Saar ) located this task. It was not until the Middle Ages that the focus of military security shifted to the Siersburg.
The castle rises southeast of the wooded crest of the 308 m high Gauberg on a 130 m × 80 m plateau of the Siersberg at a height of 297.8 m above sea level. NHN . The Siersberg offers a good view of the two river valleys and the villages of Siersburg, Rehlingen, Beckingen and Dillingen / Saar .
The main entrance to the castle comes from the northeast side and runs past the main eastern fortifications. Then he meets the 6 to 10 m wide depression of the moat that ran around the castle. The ducal part of the castle was reached via a drawbridge with obstacle barriers and further through a gate bastion, which was secured by four castle gates located one behind the other. This was separated from the rest of the castle by a system of walls and ditches, the remains of which can still be seen today on the transverse hollow on the plateau.
The original tripartite division of the castle (Herzogsburg, Moritzburg, Marienburg; named after former owners) by moats and walls is now only partially visible due to leveling. A palace building was added to the remainder of the keep, which can still be seen today, which can be proven through beam holes in the tower masonry and the remainder of a stone chimney. The enclosure walls of the facility, provided with shooting shafts, were probably 6 m high and 1.5 m thick.
Castle tower
The 16.3 m high castle tower, well preserved after various renovation measures, has a square floor plan with an edge length of around 9.2 m. Today's tower door at ground level was only broken into the 2.6 m thick wall there in the 18th century when a fourth floor was added to the tower. The third floor of the tower with its Gothic doorway at a height of around 9.7 m was built between the years 1350 and 1450. Inside the tower there is a concrete spiral staircase that leads over a total of 83 steps to two intermediate levels on the third and fourth floors and further to the viewing platform . A covered glass superstructure on the platform serves as weather protection. From the platform you have a very good all-round view. A visit is possible by appointment.
history
middle Ages
Presumably Siersberg Castle was built on the almost 300 m high mountain cone above the Saar and Nied by the Saargau Count Sigebert in the 11th century. The first documentary mention was in 1175. The oldest part of the castle was probably a defensive tower enclosed by a wall, which probably stood in the northeast in the area of the tower that has been rebuilt today. The castle was used to control shipping on the Saar as well as the trade routes running along the rivers, such as the Flandernstrasse from Italy via Strasbourg to Flanders , which crossed the Nied at this point, and the Königstrasse, the Metz on the Moselle via Tholey with Mainz on the Rhine and crossed the Saar at Rehlingen. In the following time the castle complex came into the possession of the next family, the Counts of Saarbrücken . After 1150 the fortification came into the possession of the Duke of Lorraine .
Immediately afterwards, the Archbishop of Trier , Arnold I , was able to conquer the castle around 1175 and force the Duke of Lorraine to take it from his hand as a Trier fiefdom . The Dukes of Lorraine tried several times to shake off the feudal sovereignty of the Archbishop of Trier, but in 1334 Duke Rudolf of Lorraine had to recognize the Trier Archbishop Balduin of Luxembourg as lord of the Siersburg. Only after Baldwin's death did the Lorraine dukes break away from Trier's fiefdom.
In the possession of the Lorraine dynasty, the Siersburg became a Lorraine regional castle like the other regional castles in the vicinity: Berus Castle, Sierck Castle and the castle on the Schaumberg above Tholey . The Lorraine dukes extended their rights in the places around the Siersburg to rule. The Lorraine rights of the Trierian-Lorraine community Merzig-Saargau were exercised from the castle. In dangerous situations, the castle served as a refuge for the surrounding population, who in return had to carry out maintenance measures. For the purpose of administration, the House of Lorraine handed over Siersberg Castle as a fiefdom to a noble family who soon named themselves "Siersberg" after the castle. The "von Siersberg" family was first mentioned in 1136.
The nobleman Arnold II of Siersburg is mentioned in 1341 as Lord of Dillingen, which means that the old castle in Dillingen can be assigned to the Siersburg. The lineage of the Lords of Siersberg and Dillingen consisted of the male line except for Ladwein von Siersberg, Lord of Dillingen, who died in 1558. The dynasty increasingly withdrew to the castle complex in the nearby village of Dillingen on the opposite side of the Saar and only maintained a castle house on the Siersburg as a Lorraine fief. Through Ladwein's sister Lisa, the von Siersberg family's property passed to their husband Johann von Braubach, but the Duke of Lorraine largely took over the family's property on the castle plateau.
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Furthermore, additional families of the lower nobility settled on the castle plateau, who occupied the castle as castle men (lat. Oppidanus) and lived in around ten castle mansion houses on the castle grounds. These included the von Esch family, who originally came from the neighboring castle Esch, the Kern von Siersberg family, who later entered the service of the Counts of Nassau-Saarbrücken , and the Bechel von Siersberg family, who came from the Hesse-Nassau territory Lords of Criechingen near St. Avold , the gentlemen of Dalheim near Falk-Hargarten, the gentlemen of Haracourt, the Fust family of Stromberg in the Hunsrück , the gentlemen of Zand, who later lived in Münchweiler Castle near Nunkirchen , and numerous others. As the position of power of the Siersberg dynasty waned, the position of the small noble castle men, who, as Lorraine fiefs, became part of the castle complex, strengthened. A burgrave (lat. Castellanus), who in later centuries was called Capitaine (bailiff), was appointed as the deputy of the House of Lorraine at the castle and also in the associated office of Siersberg.
Thirty Years' War
At the time of the Thirty Years' War , when the Duke of Lorraine was on the side of the German emperor, the French marshal Henri de La Ferté-Senneterre took Siersburg in 1634 and set up a base here. The marshal had high war contributions levied in the surrounding villages and the local farmers also had to pay for food for the soldiers. In the following year 1635 soldiers of the imperial lieutenant general Matthias Gallas conquered the castle. As early as 1643, the castle fell back into the possession of France. Lorraine troops stormed the Siersburg in 1650, but the following year, after briefly bombarding the walls, it again went to France. The surrounding population suffered considerably from the war. After the Treaty of Vincennes between France and Lorraine, the Duke of Lorraine got his land back. The treaty temporarily ended the Lorraine-French crisis during the reign of Duke Charles IV of Lorraine and Bar . France withdrew from Lorraine, which it since the mid- 1630s years at the instigation of Richelieu had occupied. In 1670 the French occupied Lorraine again. The ruinous condition of the castle complex was exacerbated in 1677 by French explosions during the retreat of the French. In the following period, the Siersburg increasingly lost its military importance and its decay progressed.
Decay of the castle complex
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In the 17th century, the Burgmannenhäuser on the castle plateau were owned by the Zand von Merl family and the von Bockenheim family. The Zandsche house came to the Maurice family from Saargemünd through the Barons von Blittersdorf . After 1664, the Bockenheim house was withdrawn from Lorraine as a settled fief and only given to François Forget de Barst de Bouillon in 1713 in a ruinous condition .
Furthermore, the castle remained the seat of the ducal-Lorraine office of Siersberg and conservation measures can still be proven up into the 18th century. In the War of the Austrian Succession , in which several European princes raised claims to the Habsburg hereditary lands and the Roman-German Empire , the castle's occupation was fought off by the Pandur colonel Johann Daniel von Menzel. However, Menzel plundered the surrounding villages.
As a result of a lightning strike in the castle tower at the end of the 18th century, the castle complex gradually fell into disrepair. In the course of the French Revolution , the castle was largely destroyed in 1793. The facility passed into French state ownership and was auctioned. But at the beginning of the 19th century the plateau still seems to have been inhabited.
- Optical telegraph station
In 1813, on the orders of Emperor Napoleon, the first optical state telegraph line in Germany (route Metz-Mainz, line length 225 km) was built according to the Claude Chappe system and put into operation on May 29, 1813. A telegraphic connection from Paris to Mainz was thus possible. The Siersburg became a signal station. The next stations to the east were the Litermont (413 m) and the Hoxberg (414 m), the next station to the west was the 385 m high Scheidberg near Gisingen .
With three wooden signal bars (a movable crossbar with two adjustable short ends on a vertical iron rod) on castles or towers, which were mutually visible and were not more than 8 to 12 km apart, one could form 196 signs in good weather. Individual letters or entire sentences could be transmitted.
- Prussian conquest
With the Prussian conquest of the area on the left bank of the Rhine under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher , the signal line was interrupted and a short time later telegraph operations were completely stopped. When the Nalbach Valley was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia by the Congress of Vienna , the complex fell into disrepair.
Finally, the ruins were used by the residents of the surrounding villages as a building material store until, after the transition of the region to the Kingdom of Prussia, the Prussian military authorities intervened in the Congress of Vienna in 1817 because they wanted to use the castle tower as a military signal post.
A tripartite division of the castle complex is still visible today, encompassing around 120 m by 70 m. The ducal administration with the castle chapel and the apartment of the castle captain was located in the area of the keep tower still preserved today . The chapel is first attested to the year 1233, when Duke Matthew II of Lorraine donated it to the Holy Cross Abbey in nearby Busendorf , the oldest necropolis of the ducal dynasty of Lorraine. Patrons were St. Sebastian , St. Blaise von Sebaste and St. Donatus . The middle part of the castle, which today houses the monument to the de Maurice family with the Pietà , the so-called Moritzburg, was inhabited by the de Maurice family in the 18th century, until they moved to their new castle in nearby Hilringen in 1745 moved. The part of the castle facing south-west, called Marienburg, was inhabited since 1760 by the French regimental doctor Claude Ledans de Saint Marie, who had acquired this property through marriage.
Conservation measures
In 1911, cornices were laid for the first time and the masonry of the castle tower was partially re-grouted. When the castle tower threatened to collapse in the 1930s, the Siersburger Heimat- und Verkehrsverein managed to renovate the outside of the tower with great effort in 1938/1939. An interior renovation could only be carried out in 1955/1956 because of the outbreak of the Second World War. The Siersburg local and tourist association, the Saarlouis district , the Saarland tourism association and the Saarland state conservator's office provided the financial means . During the construction work, a viewing platform was built on the tower. In the years 1967 to 1969 and 1975 to 1978 the outer walls of the castle were renovated, viewing platforms into the Niedtal and Saar valleys were built and the gate area was rebuilt. Excavations resulted in new archaeological findings, and cellars and guard rooms could be exposed. Since 1937 the castle complex was bought by the former Chancellor Franz von Papen , who made the castle available to the community of Siersburg free of charge. In return, the community took care of the maintenance of the facility. It was not until April 26, 1979 that Papensch’s ownership of the castle with 4.3641 hectares of land finally became the property of the municipality through a complicated property swap that had been initiated in 1970.
During security work in the south-western part of the castle complex in 2009, both the ring wall of the castle should be restored and possible finds should be recorded by archaeologists. A buried toilet was discovered in the southern part of the castle wall. During the excavation work on the shaft, animal bones and shards, well-preserved pottery drinking utensils (two almost completely preserved jugs and a mug without a handle with a stand) as well as remains of Gothic windows were found. The lump of lead strands, sand and broken glass measured approx. 45 by 30 cm. The soil layer of the window find was dated by the State Monuments Office of Saarland to the period from 1250 to 1350.
The broken glass in the window was so corroded that it was only possible to uncover paint residues with chemical analyzes. Further details were explored using X-ray spectroscopy and three-dimensional computed tomography . The restoration of the glass panes took place in 2015 with the help of a funding program from the Kulturstiftung der Länder . Presumably the window came from the living area of the castle. The glass pane find is the oldest evidence of medieval glass painting in Saarland to date. The three millimeter thin lead rod network has been completely preserved. The shape and design of the window could thus be reconstructed. The window with ornamental flower and leaf motifs in ogival quatrefoils was probably surrounded by a wooden frame and was 46 by 95 cm. It was also possible to reconstruct parts of a glass coat of arms of the ducal-Lorraine eagle , which can be seen in relation to Siersburg as a Lorraine state castle. The coat of arms window could have been vandalized during the conflicts between the Archbishopric of Trier and the Duchy of Lorraine. In 1334 Archbishop Balduin of Luxembourg had asserted his claims to possession of the castle against Duke Rudolf of Lorraine . Presumably in order to clearly document the new rule, the Lorraine coat of arms was destroyed in the manner of a " Damnatio memoriae " and symbolically disposed of in the lavatory.
Todays use
In summer the Siersburg Festival and an open-air festival of the CAJ - Siersburg e. V. organizes (" Castle Festival "). Likewise, every year on the last weekend in July there is a medieval market with an army camp as well as scenic and musical performances. This market is organized by the Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Siersburg e. V. and the community of Rehlingen-Siersburg. Since 1998 the castle complex has been the setting for a three-day open-air cinema, in which current " blockbuster " films and a current French film are shown.
History painting "The Siersburg"
When a new town hall was built between 1906 and 1908 in the then up-and-coming village community of Dillingen / Saar according to the plans of the Charlottenburg architecture professor Wilhelm Franz in a mixture of Neo-Renaissance and Art Nouveau elements, the aim was to present the history of the Siersberg-Dillingen rule. The Charlottenburg landscape and architecture painter Otto Günther-Naumburg , who like Wilhelm Franz also worked as a professor at the Royal Technical University of Berlin, was therefore commissioned to reconstruct the medieval shape of the Siersburg on a history painting. On the large-format mural you can see a partly mounted knight band at the foot of the Siersburg in a snowy winter landscape. The depicted scene is reminiscent of the violent disputes in the 13th and 14th centuries between the Archdiocese and Electorate of Trier and the Duchy of Lorraine. In 1282 Duke Friedrich III. of Lorraine received the Siersburg from Archbishop Boemund II of Saarbrücken as a fief in Trier's Church of Our Lady . In 1333, Duke Rudolf of Lorraine and Archbishop Balduin of Luxembourg were supposed to meet to agree on the controversial fief of the Siersburg. While Baldwin appeared with all the documents supporting his claim, Duke Rudolf stayed away from the meeting and did not send any deputies. So the fiefdom was awarded to Kurtrier .
Twelve historical coats of arms are depicted at the lower edge of the painting, which are related to the noble families who directed the historical fortunes of the Siersberg-Dillingen rule: the coat of arms of the Dukes of Lorraine , the coat of arms of the Electorate of Trier , the coat of arms of the Counts of Saarbrücken , the coat of arms of the bailiff of Niedbrück , the coat of arms of the noble lords of Siersberg, the coat of arms of the lords of Siersberg, the coat of arms of the noble lords of Siersberg (younger line), the coat of arms of the Bechel dynasty of Siersberg, the coat of arms of the Esch dynasty of Siersberg, the coat of arms of the bailiff of Hausen, the coat of arms of the Zand von Merl dynasty and the coat of arms of the Bailiwick of Siersberg. The coats of arms are surrounded by explanatory banderoles with dates of rule.
Say
The Saarland folklorist Karl Lohmeyer passed on several folk tales from the Siersburg.
The legend of the underground passage between Siersburg and Litermont
The castle on the Litermont was inhabited by Maldix vom Litermont (probably a derisive name invented early on , Latin: maledictus = "bad"; someone about whom one speaks badly - the opposite would be benedictus) and his pious mother Margarete. Knight Maldix was a fierce hunter and savage reveler. All of his mother's admonitions were in vain. Maldix, so the legend goes, also had a just as well as pious brother who was more concerned with his mother and who is said to have lived in the nearby Siersburg. If Maldix raged and cursed particularly badly at Litermont Castle, Margarete is said to have fled through an underground passage from Litermont, known only to her, to her pious son in Siersburg in order to seek protection there.
The three brothers playing the trumpet
The legend tells of three knightly brothers. One lived on the Siersburg, the other two on the Schaumburg near Tholey and on the Litermont. All three greeted each other every morning with a trumpet play. Even after the three castles were destroyed, the wonderful game of knights was heard in the air.
The witch from the rock mill and the residents of Siersburg
The legend tells of a knight from Litermont who rode to the Siersburg because he had loved the daughter of the Siersburg burgrave for a long time, who in turn had already been promised to the master of the Dillingen palace. In his distress of love, the Litermont knight had turned to a witch who lived behind the Beckinger rock mill and asked her for a love potion. The witch prepared what was requested, but made it a condition that the drink could only be brought to the young girl by the hand of a consecrated hermit. This was aimed at the witch's brother, a fake hermit who lived near the Hyllborn on the road between Dillingen and Beckingen. The witch's brother, disguised as a hermit, then settled down as a chaplain at Siersberg Castle, only to be active in his own love interest in the damsel and also in a maid. The Siersburg stablehand, who had become jealous of this and who had already hoped to win the heart of the Siersburg castle maid, now went to the rock mill witch for help. When the witch found out about her brother's deeds, she was seized with anger and gave the servant a supposed love potion for the maid. However, this potion was poison and the maid died from it. When the witch's brother noticed that his sister had done this to him out of revenge, he disappeared from the Siersburg. The groom confessed his actions, gripped by remorse. So the rock mill witch was caught and burned at the stake on the gallows hill. The castle servant was banished.
The coffin nail in the knightly horse's hoof and the warlock of Rehlingen
The legend tells of a sorcerer who lived in Rehlingen. When the sorcerer was once treated unfairly by the knight of Siersburg, the magician obtained coffin nails in the cemetery and struck them in the hoof tracks that the knight had left in the earth. Thereupon the Siersburg knight noticed that his horse was lame. When you looked in the hooves of the knightly horse, you found the coffin nails that the sorcerer had enchanted.
Archives about the history of the castle complex
- Archives Departementales Nancy
- Archives Departementales Metz
- State Archives Koblenz
- Diocese archive Trier
- Archive of the Saarlouis City Library, Motte manuscript
- Siersburg official archive
- Parish archives Dillingen and Siersburg
- Hilbringer church records
literature
- Friedrich Toepfer: Supplements XV. The Lords of Siersberg . In: ders. (Ed.): Document book for the history of the royal and baronial house of the Voegte von Hunolstein , vol. I. Jacob Zeiser, Nuremberg 1866, p. 351f ( Google Books )
- Adam Goerz: Mittelrheinische Regesten of the two administrative districts Coblenz and Trier, 4 volumes, Coblenz 1879–1886.
- Maximilian Gritzner: The nobility of German Lorraine, in: Siebmacher's Wappenbuch, Volume 2, 11th Department, Nuremberg 1873.
- Josef Hilt: History of the Siersburg, short version with overview map Siersburg-Niedtal, ed. from Heimat- und Verkehrsverein eV Siersburg, 2nd, extended edition, Siersburg 1986.
- Kurt Hoppstädter : Burg Siersberg , in: Geschichtliche Landeskunde des Saarlandes, From the hand ax to the winding tower, ed. v. Kurt Hoppstädter u. Hans-Walter Herrmann , Vol. 1 with the assistance of Erhard Dehnke, Saarbrücken 1960, pp. 192–196.
- Anton Jakob: The Siersburg through the centuries, Saarlouis 1958.
- August Hermann Jungk: Regesta on the history of the former Nassau-Saarbrückische Land, 2 parts, in: Communications of the historical association for the Saar area, issue 13 (1914) and issue 14 (1919).
- Aloys Lehnert : History of the city of Dillingen / Saar, Dillingen / Saar 1968. (On the historical connection between the Lords of Dillingen and Siersberg)
- Johannes Naumann: The discovery of a plan of the Siersburg, in: Our homeland, bulletin of the Saarlouis district for culture and landscape, vol. 27 (2002), pp. 83-86.
- Eckart Sander: The most beautiful castles and palaces in Saarland, Hamburg 1999.
- Gertrud Schmidt: Burg and Schloß Dillingen, From the Lorraine rule to the French duchy, Dillingen 1990. (On the historical connection between the Lords of Dillingen and Siersberg)
- Philipp Siebenborn: Handwritten chronicle of the 19th century on the history of Siersburg (Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Siersburg)
- Friedrich Toepfer: Document book for the history of the count and baronial house of the bailiffs of Hunolstein, 3 volumes, Nuremberg 1866–1872.
- Michael Tritz: History of the Wadgassen Abbey, at the same time a cultural and war history of the Saar area, unchanged reprint of the Wadgassen 1901 edition with an introduction by Hans-Walter Herrmann and a register, Saarbrücken 1978.
- Leo Weisgerber: In the footsteps of the Lords of Niedbruck, in: Festschrift on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Dillinger Realgymnasium and the inauguration of the new building in Dr.-Prior-Straße, ed. v. Senior Teacher Dr. Aloys Lehnert, Dillingen / Saar 1953, pp. 297-299.
- Walter Zimmermann: The art monuments of the districts Saarlouis and Ottweiler, Düsseldorf 1934.
- Literature about the Siersburg (castle) in the Saarland bibliography
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herbert Liedtke, Karl-Heinz-Hepp, Christoph Jentsch: The Saarland in map and aerial photo, A contribution to regional studies, ed. from the Land Surveying Office of the Saarland, Neumünster 1974, p. 72.
- ↑ Herbert Liedtke, Karl-Heinz-Hepp, Christoph Jentsch: The Saarland in map and aerial photo, A contribution to regional studies, ed. from the Land Surveying Office of the Saarland, Neumünster 1974, pp. 71–73.
- ↑ Wolfgang Adler : excavations 2014 on the Königsberg near Itzbach, district Saarlouis, in: Denkmalpflege im Saarland, annual report 2014, ed. from the State Monuments Office in the Ministry of Education and Culture, Saarbrücken, pp. 26–28.
- ↑ Herbert Liedtke, Karl-Heinz-Hepp, Christoph Jentsch: The Saarland in map and aerial photo, A contribution to regional studies, ed. from the Land Surveying Office of the Saarland, Neumünster 1974, pp. 72–73.
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Dimensions according to the information box for the municipality of Rehlingen-Siersburg in front of the castle complex, www.rehlingen-siersburg.de.
- ↑ Kurt Hoppstädter: Burg Siersberg, in: Geschichtliche Landeskunde des Saarlandes, From the hand ax to the winding tower, ed. v. Kurt Hoppstädter u. Hans-Walter Herrmann, Vol. 1 with the assistance of Erhard Dehnke, Saarbrücken 1960, pp. 192–196, here pp. 195–196.
- ↑ see section The Siersburg through the ages in the information flyer on the castle
- ↑ Herbert Liedtke, Karl-Heinz-Hepp, Christoph Jentsch: The Saarland in map and aerial photo, A contribution to regional studies, ed. from the Land Surveying Office of the Saarland, Neumünster 1974, p. 72.
- ^ Aloys Lehnert: History of the City of Dillingen Saar, Dillingen 1968, pp. 563-564.
- ↑ Johannes A. Bodwing: Article "Nalbach Telegrafenstation once connected Mainz and Metz", in: Saarbrücker Zeitung, January 26, 2016, Dillinger local section.
- ↑ Herbert Liedtke, Karl-Heinz-Hepp, Christoph Jentsch: The Saarland in map and aerial photo, A contribution to regional studies, ed. from the Land Surveying Office of the Saarland, Neumünster 1974, pp. 72–73.
- ^ Lehnert, Aloys: History of the city of Dillingen Saar , Krüger printing works, Dillingen 1968, p. 564.
- ↑ Kurt Hoppstädter: Burg Siersberg, in: Geschichtliche Landeskunde des Saarlandes, From the hand ax to the winding tower, ed. v. Kurt Hoppstädter u. Hans-Walter Herrmann, Vol. 1 with the assistance of Erhard Dehnke, Saarbrücken 1960, pp. 192–196.
- ^ Josef Hilt: History of the Siersburg, short version with overview map Siersburg-Niedtal, ed. from Heimat- und Verkehrsverein eV Siersburg, 2nd, extended edition, Siersburg 1986, pp. 58–61.
- ↑ Johannes A. Bodwig: Article "A window into another time, Medieval finds from Siesberg Castle completely restored", in: Saarbrücker Zeitung, Edition Dillinger Zeitung, No. 278, page C 1.
- ↑ University Library TU Berlin: Collection of digitized course catalogs 1874 to 1950 ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Anton Jakob: The Siersburg in the course of the centuries, Saarlouis 1958, p. 37.
- ↑ Gertrud Schmidt: 100 Years of the Historical Meeting Room, Old Town Hall Dillingen, Dillingen 2008, pp. 11–12.
- ^ Karl Lohmeyer: The sagas of the Saar from their sources to the mouth, anniversary edition for the 100th birthday of Karl Lohmeyer on January 21, 1978, (= 3rd edition from 1952), Saarbrücken 1978.
- ^ Karl Lohmeyer: Die Sagen der Saar, complete edition, 3rd edition, Saarbrücken 2012, No. 912–915, pp. 520–522.
