Mechelgrün moated castle
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_Schlo%C3%9Fruine.jpg) Mechelgrün Moated Castle 1986 |
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| Alternative name (s): | Mechelgrün moated castle | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Enclosing walls | |
| Standing position : | Nobles, commoners | |
| Place: | Neuensalz -Mechel green | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 28 '49.8 " N , 12 ° 14' 15.3" E | |
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The moated castle Mechelgrün , also called moated castle Mechelgrün , is the ruin of a moated castle east of Theumaer Straße in the district Mechelgrün of the municipality of Neuensalz in the Vogtlandkreis in Saxony .
history
The moated castle was built in the 12th century, first mentioned in 1267, expanded like a castle in the 14th century and was owned by the Rabe family, a branch of the Trautenberg family , which was widely ramified in the Vogtland , until the middle of the 15th century . - Johannes Rabe von Mechelgrün acquired Wildstein Castle , the Egerland ancestral seat of the Notthaft family , in 1298 from his father-in-law Engelhard Notthaft.
In 1465 the complex was destroyed, rebuilt with four corner towers and in 1475 received a chapel in the eastern tower. - After the complex burned down to the ground in 1670 , it was rebuilt in 1675, somewhat modified.
After the von Rabe family, the castle came to the von Tettau family and then to the Uibrig family until 1945.
When redesigning in the middle of the 19th century, two round towers were removed, the moat partially filled and the castle pond was created through an access run to the Rabenbach. The facility fell into disrepair in the 20th century.
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investment
The original castle complex was a three-storey complex with a hipped roof on a triangular floor plan with an included round tower ( residential tower ) in the south-west and a tower-like porch in the south-east from the 12th to 13th centuries, walling and moat. The surrounding walls of the complex are still preserved today.
literature
- Barbara Bechter, Wiebke Fastenrath u. a .: Saxony II: Leipzig and Chemnitz administrative districts , Munich 1998
- Hans and Doris Maresch: Sachsens Schlösser & Burgen , Husum 2004
