Hasenberg moated castle
| Hasenberg moated castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Insel, Wasserburg Eckartsberg | |
| Creation time : | unknown | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Mittelherwigsdorf - Eckartsberg | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 55 '9.5 " N , 14 ° 47' 44.7" E | |
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The Hasenberg moated castle , popularly called the island , is an old early German moated castle in the Eckartsberg district of the municipality of Mittelherwigsdorf in Saxony .
description
The facility is located west of the Oberhasenberg estate (Am Hasenberg 1) in the spring basin of a tributary to the Hasenberg water within a wide, pond-like ditch filled with water. The square castle island with rounded corners, the sides of which are approx. 15 m long, has been preserved. The Burgstall is now a ground monument .
history
There are no written records about the moated castle, so that neither its origin, owner, purpose and its demise are documented. Also in the course of the first mention of the Zittau Vorwerk Hatzenfleck in 1391 there is no reference to the moated castle.
In 1769 the Zittau high school principal Adam Daniel Richter published a theory according to which the island was supposed to have been a Meissnian border castle of the Margrave Ekkehard I and would therefore come from the 9th century.
In 1874 Moráwek wrote of an "artificially created island overgrown with trees and shrubbery, partly still surrounded by water" to which a bridge led from Gut Oberhasenberg at that time.
A precise chronological classification can only be made after archaeological investigations.
literature
- Gottfried Eifler (Ed.): Dorfbuch Eckartsberg , Oettel-Verlag 2010
- Harald Quietzsch, Jacob Heinz: (Ed.): The protected ground monuments in the Dresden district , State Museum for Prehistory Dresden, 1982
- The south-eastern Upper Lusatia with Zittau and the Zittau Mountains (= values of the German homeland . Volume 16). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1970, p. 128.
Individual evidence
- ^ Carl Gottlob Moráwek: History of Hasenberg and Luptin near Zittau , 1874