Vogelherd Niederschlema

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Vogelherd
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: ruin
Place: Hartenstein and Bad Schlema -Wildbach
Geographical location 50 ° 38 '5 "  N , 12 ° 40' 42"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '5 "  N , 12 ° 40' 42"  E
Height: 270  m above sea level NN
Vogelherd Niederschlema (Saxony)
Vogelherd Niederschlema

With Vogelherdhöhle Niederschlema a former will spur castle at 270  m above sea level. NN on a rock spur above the Zwickauer Mulde east of Wildbach in the Ore Mountains .

Description and history

The facility was located about one kilometer east of Wildbach at the tip of a north-east facing mountain spur, which is protected in the east, south and west by the Zwickauer Mulde river. Barely 200 meters to the west are the ruins of the Isenburg on the neighboring spur . Due to its topographical location, Vogelherd Castle must be counted as a spur castle. It had an oval core work of about 13 by 15 meters. There is a surrounding terrace about four meters below the core plant . On April 30, 1969, the complex was placed under protection as a ground monument.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Volkmar Geupel: The protected ground monuments in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district. 1983, p. 17.