Sachsgrün moated castle

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Sachsgrün moated castle
Sachsgrün manor

Sachsgrün manor

Alternative name (s): Sachsgrün Castle, Sachsgrün Manor
Creation time : 1200 to 1250, first mentioned in 1353
Castle type : Niederungsburg, location
Conservation status: today's manor house, farm building
Standing position : Nobles, commoners
Place: Triebel / Vogtl. -Saxon green
Geographical location 50 ° 20 '40.1 "  N , 12 ° 1' 43.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 20 '40.1 "  N , 12 ° 1' 43.7"  E
Sachsgrün moated castle (Saxony)
Sachsgrün moated castle

The Sachsgrün moated castle , also known as Sachsgrün Castle , is a former moated castle and later a manor in the Sachsgrün district (Dorfstrasse 1) in the Triebel / Vogtl community. in the Vogtlandkreis in Saxony .

The moated castle was built between 1200 and 1250 and was probably the ancestral home of the von Sack family , which was mentioned in Sachsgrün in 1283. It was first mentioned as "Veste" in 1353 and the first name as " Castle " in 1397. In 1418 a knight's seat was mentioned in writing and in 1397 a manor was named.

Other owners are named: the knight Berthold von Streitberg (1296), the knight Vasmann , the von Zedtwitz family, the von Feilitzsch family (1441), Julius von Seckendorff (1594) and Wilhelm von Streitberg (1615). After that was the manor fief of the Electors of Saxony , who transferred it to the court marshal of Reibold, who owned it until 1716, and then his daughter, the widow of Fletcher, bequeathed by which the ownership of her son Heinrich August von Brandenstein came in whose Family remained on the estate until 1921.

In 1932 Georg Weißig was the owner of the estate, followed by Ernst von Schönburg-Waldenburg , who sold it to the Sächsische Bauernsiedlung GmbH in 1935. The mansion was used as a school from 1938 to 1952 and as a catering business from 2005 . The farm buildings are mainly used privately.

The former moated castle on the manor collapsed in 1854 and was replaced by a manor house from 1858 to 1859, which was given its current appearance through renovations in 1936 and 1938.

literature

  • Wolfgang Seffner: The manors of the Vogtland, their fate in the 20th century . Vogtland-Verlag, Plauen 2002, ISBN 3-928828-21-5 , p. 106ff.

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