Farnroda moated castle
| Farnroda moated castle | |
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 The tower of the moated castle and the castle ruins |
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| Creation time : | 1225 |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg |
| Conservation status: | Small remains of walls and rock sections |
| Standing position : | Local nobility |
| Place: | Wutha Farnroda |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 56 '27.8 " N , 10 ° 23' 26.4" E |
| Height: | 250 m above sea level NN |
The Wasserburg Farnroda is a 13th-century castle and monument in the town of Wutha-Farnroda in Wartburgkreis . Their remains - an approximately 25 meter high tower and the pond are in the northern part of the historical location of Farnroda . Decades before it was built, there was a castle Wittgenstein built as a spur castle near Farnroda , probably a small military road post of the Thuringian landgraves at a ford on the Erbstrom .
history
Since the late 13th century, the Lords of Farnroda, evidently a sideline of the Lords of Baumbach, sat as landgrave ministerials in the manor of Farnroda , to which the present-day places Seebach, Mosbach and Kittelsthal also belonged. The first known bearer of the name was Helmricus de Varnrod (1260).
The Lords of Farnroda built their castle as a moated castle in the middle of a swampy meadow in the Erbstromtal valley . A sketch from the official descriptions of the later owners shows a very small castle area measuring barely 100 square meters with the tower and a few residential buildings around a tiny atrium .
Around 1400 the castle changed hands frequently, which indicates financial problems (pledging). In 1451 the castle was owned by an Ilse von Wangenheim who sold it to Siegmund, Burgrave of Kirchberg . The Kirchbergers had previously lost most of their previous property in the Saale valley near Jena . With the purchase of farms in Burbach, Seebach and Farnroda as well as meadows and arable land near Wutha and Eisenach, they gained an economic basis for a new beginning in the Eisenach area. Around 1600 the traces of the Lords of Farnroda, who as local nobility (since the 13th century) were patron saints of the Laurentius Church and court lords of Farnroda, are lost .
literature
- Wolfgang Eberhardt: The Farnroda rule from its beginnings to the sale to the Kirchbergers . In: Heimatblätter for the Eisenach district . Episodes 52-62. Eisenach 1995.
- Manfred Beck: On the history of the Farnroda moated castle . In: Hörselbergbote . Issue 30. DR-Werbeverlag, Wutha-Farnroda 1997, p. 14-21 .
- Thomas Bienert: Medieval castles in Thuringia . Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-631-1 , Farnroda castle ruins, p. 338 .
- Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces . Jenzig-Verlag, Jena 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , Farnroda, p. 99-100 .
- ?? Eisenach and surroundings, Wartburg district, north . In: Sven Ostritz (Hrsg.): Archaeological hiking guide Thuringia . No. 11. Beier & Beran, Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-937517-67-4 , p. 108 .