Isserstedt moated castle
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 Moat and plateau of the moated castle in Isserstedt |
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| Creation time : | probably 12th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Ruins, wall and moat remains | |
| Place: | Jena - Isserstedt | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 57 '34.9 " N , 11 ° 31' 27.1" E | |
| Height: | 300 m above sea level NN | |
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The moated castle Isserstedt is a lost moated castle on the southeast edge of the Jena district of Isserstedt in Thuringia .
history
The moated castle was given up as ancestral seat by the lords of Isserstedt, first mentioned in 1174, in 1333 and went to the Vitzthumen zu Roßla. In the course of the Saxon Fratricidal War (1446-1451) the castle was destroyed.
Todays use
Today's Burgstall still shows a hill of ruins with surrounding wall and moat remains. The castle area is surrounded by the street “Am Burggarten”, which presumably marks the moat , inside this oval area the village cemetery and some gardens were already in the 19th century.
Web links
Hewn stone of the moated castle
Burggartenweg at the Wasserburg
Moat of the moated castle
literature
- Köhler, Michael: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and prehistoric living spaces , Jenzig-Verlag, Jena 2003, ISBN 3-910141-56-0
- Detlef Ignasiak: On the Saale and in the woodland - a cultural-historical guide through the surroundings of the university town of Jena , quartus-Verlag, Jena 1997, ISBN 3-931505-17-0