Sohlander Castle
| Sohlander Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Sohland on the Spree | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 3 '33.8 " N , 14 ° 26' 30.5" E | |
| Height: | 320 m above sea level NN | |
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The Sohlander Castle is an Outbound early German Spur castle in the town Sohland at the Spree in Saxony .
location
The Burgstall is located at 320 m above sea level. NN 250 m northeast of the reservoir Sohland on a wooded rocky promontory above the valleys of the River Spree and Ellersdorfer water . The Mälzerberg ( 413 m ) rises in the north, the Kälbersteine ( 487 m ) in the northeast and the Schloßberg ( 323 m ) to the south .
description
On the granodiorite covered with ice age gravel of the spur of the second mountain range of the Lausitzer Bergland protruding into the Spreetal there is a high, almost square Bühl. It is protected on three sides by a wall and ditch, and to the south by the steep slope to the Ellersdorfer Wasser.
history
The defense system was probably built in the 13th century at the intersection of the Bohemian Trail leading from Bautzen to Prague with one of the new local foundations in the upper Wesenitztal via Wehrsdorf into the upper Spree valley and served to protect the Spreefurt near Sohland. It is believed that the small castle complex was an outpost of Körse Castle . Nothing has been written about the castle and its demise. Presumably it burned down.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the mountain spur with the ramparts was still referred to as "the Schloßberg", whereas today's Schloßberg was called "the Hipsberg".
During an excavation carried out in 1916, charred wooden beams, the remains of a wall, red-burnt clay and remains of vessels were found.
literature
- Around Bautzen and Schirgiswalde (= values of the German homeland . Volume 12). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1967, p. 205.