Mulda moated castle
| Mulda moated castle | ||
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| Creation time : | 1200 to 1300 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Mulda / Sa. | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 47 '39.3 " N , 13 ° 26' 39.6" E | |
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The Mulda moated castle is an abandoned moated castle in the deserted village of Gruene . Both are in the Mulda / Sa district. in the Ore Mountains in the district of Central Saxony .
Location and description
The castle is located 2.5 km south-east of the Mulda church in what is now the Frauenstein state forest district (forest division 91) in terrain slightly sloping to the northeast above the western steep slope of the Freiberg Mulde .
The system is round and has a total diameter of 35 m. The core works with a diameter of 22 m is surrounded in the south and east by a ditch and in the north and west by a double ditch with a wall in between. The total width of the fastening is 4–5 m. On the plateau of the core work, the massing of rubble stones suggests former masonry. Presumably it was a square (square?) Tower and a rectangular building attached to its north side.
Discovery story
During the inventory of monuments in the State Office for Archeology of Saxony in 1997 Manfred Ruttkowski recognized the moated castle on sheet 276 of the so-called Freiberg copy of the mile sheet from around 1830 based on the field name "Altes Schloß" and then by him and the responsible area officer in the State Office Volkmar Geupel also localized in the field.
History of the castle
The castle is not known from written sources. There is only one written mention of the desert in the loan book of Friedrich des Strengen 1349/50, the associated moated castle is not mentioned.
With this and without archaeological investigations such as excavations or with non-destructive methods such as geophysics, it is difficult to make further statements about the castle. Volkmar Geupel suspects that the village and the manor house belonging to it were laid out in the course of the high medieval country development around or shortly after 1200 and fell into desolation before the middle of the 14th century. According to a more recent hypothesis by Wolfgang Schwabenicky, such small moated castles are likely to have all or mostly only recently occurred. H. around or after the middle of the 13th century.
literature
- Volkmar Geupel : Lost in the forest: The "Old Castle" and the desert "zcu der Gruene" near Mulda, district of Freiberg . In: archeology currently in the Free State of Saxony 5, 1997, pp. 180–185.