Dornburg

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Location of thorn castle in Dornburg - Camburg

Thorn Castle is a former town in the north of the Saale- wood - country circuit and since December 1, 2008 part of the city Dornburg - Camburg; previously she was a member of the administrative community Dornburg - Camburg. Dornburg is primarily known through the three Dornburger locks.

• 3.1 Other attractions of the city
• 3.2 Regular events

• 7.1 Persons with respect to the location

Geography

Geographical Location

Thorn castle is in the middle Saale valley between the cities of Jena and Naumburg ( Saale). Through the town the road L 2303 Apolda Coming runs and binds thorn castle to the 1km east in the Saale valley running B 88. The city of Jena is 10 km, 20 km and Camburg Naumburg Saale as the next downstream town 6.5 km away. In the district of Naschhausen Dornburger train station is at the train hall. The nearest motorway is the A 9 in the east.

Landscape

Thorn castle is located on a steep limestone cliffs, which falls to two small side valleys into the Saale valley and the south and north to the East. On the flat surfaces on the plateau and in the Saaleaue there are fields on the slopes and cliffs of the Saale valley is wild, forest -like vegetation before. In the south of the district lies the castle skull, a steep mountain spur on what was once a castle site. The highest elevations are at just over 300 meters above sea level. NN on the gallows and on the plateau at Wilsdorf.

History

Prerequisite for the construction of a castle on the plateau above the Saale was the strategic location at the crossroads of important trade routes, one of which the Saale ford crossed at Hummelstedt. Whether the first castle was erected in the 10th century, is not yet known. With the construction of Saalebrücke in Dorndorf Saale transition at Hummelstedt lost its meaning and the place was deserted by 1209. Finds at excavations carried out in 2010 in the context of land development on the parcel in the old city on the extended plateau suggest that the original imperial palace was there.

The city's name is derived from Dornburg probably in the 9th century Carolingian empire created as Dornburg. In the 10th century they came together with Kirchberg under the Ottos more involved in national politics. Numerous visits of kings suggest a spacious Palatinate. Over time, after the extinction of the Ottos there are no records. In the 13th century the castle was acquired by the taverns of Vargula. Among these, it probably came to laying the medieval settlement half a kilometer west of the castle, next to the rock spur. The award of the city right falls within the period of giving, because in 1343 it was first mentioned by the Orlamünde as a city with citizens on the sale to the Black and Burger. 1357 she came to the House of Wettin, which a short time later an office Dornburg created. This office existed almost unchanged until the 19th century. The Wettin pledged the castle in the years after 1357 frequently, so that a frequent change of ownership took place. 1485 the castle and town in the Wettin division of the Albertine, 1547 were then handed over to the Ernestinians. In the division of the Ernestine line in 1603 they came to Sachsen- Altenburg, Saxe- Jena 1673, after its extinction, 1690 Sachsen- Eisenach, which was later reunited with Saxe-Weimar. In the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar -Eisenach remained city and castle until 1918, then came to the newly formed Free State of Thuringia, in 1945 the state of Thuringia, from 1952 to the circle of Jena- land in the district of Gera and after 1990 back to the Free State of Thuringia, in the new formed Saale- Holzland.

Dornburg 1568 was affected by witch hunts. A man caught in a witch trial.

On 1 December 2008 Dornburg was incorporated together with the adjacent Dorndorf - Steudnitz in the Saale downstream city Camburg, which then changed its name to Dornburg - Camburg. Previously belonged to the town of spike castle next to the main town of the districts Hirschroda and Wilsdorf. Until the 1930s Naschhausen also among thorn castle. In the hallway between Dornburg Hirschroda and Würchhausen is the deserted village Bernsroda. In addition to the core town of about 700 inhabitants live in Hirschroda Wilsdorf and approximately 100 people.

→ See also: Lanserode ( deserted )

Culture and sights

The main attractions thorn Petersburg are the three on a limestone cliff above the town, situated on the Saale Dorndorf - Steudnitz, standing Dornburger locks.

Other attractions of the city

• The historical ceramic workshop of the Weimar Bauhaus (branch in Dornburg )
• The historic street market
• The parish church of St. Jacob with foundations dating from the 16th century ( see also below)
• The town hall from 1728
• The old city wall with house on the Wall
• Baroque garden at the Rococo palace
• The English garden at the Renaissance castle
• Castle Skull and Voigt stone, viewpoints south of the city
• The Schweigel mountain north of the city and the betting hill west of the city, on the one found valuable bronze objects

Regular events

• Dornburger Rose Festival, annually in June
• Dornburger Old Car

Traffic

The mandrel Castle (Saale ) Bahnhof is located on the railway line Großheringen -Saalfeld.

Public institutions

• City ​​council
• Kindergarten
• Volunteer Fire Department
• Conference facilities in the Old Palace

Church and Religion

In the old town is the parish church of St. Jacobi, which had been dedicated to St. James. The church is used by the Evangelical Lutheran church. For weddings and marriage ceremonies thorn castle is known with the parish church beyond regional borders. By the year 1539 Dornburg was Roman Catholic. After the death of Duke George of Saxony, the Reformation was introduced here as well. A first church in connection with thorn castle was mentioned in the year 976, the 937 had mentioned Dornburg certainly at least a chapel.

When the first church was, has not yet been investigated archaeologically and controversial. To assume is an early church in the late 12th century, which coincided with the relocation of the settlement to the high medieval feudal castle. The construction of the present building of St. Jacob's Church dates back to 1598; 1717 a fire destroyed the church to its foundations. The following year, work began on reconstruction. Today one can still can see the edge from which after 1717 the walls were re-set. 1820 the church received a Gerhardt- organ, which is played again since the repair in 1989. The church is also used for concerts, it take place there, inter alia, chamber concerts. The church books from the Reformation period were also destroyed by fire in 1717.

In the castle there was a chapel, which was dedicated to St. George. In the "Old Town", west of the present village location, there was, according to the Erbzinsbücher of the 16th century another church, which may be identical with the mentioned time of the Reformation Church of St. Crucis and potentially represents a successor to the palace chapel.

Personalities

Persons with respect to the location

• ESIKO of Merseburg († 1004), thorn castle claimed to Margrave Ekkehard I.
• Hans Friedrich von Drach village (1564-1629), Amtshauptmann in Dornburg and Camburg
• Wolfgang Zetzsching, son of the counselor of the Elector John Frederick the Magnanimous, was built in the southern part of the three castles in Dornburger still existing style. To him, the jewelry portal is attributed to the Renaissance castle.
• Johann Reichard, Landrentmeister of the Duchy of Altenburg, built after the Thirty Years War, the office administration in Dornburg scratch. His work was noted by Frenkel priest in the novel The roofer from Dornburg prosaic.
• Johann Samuel Schroeter (1735-1808), Rector of Dornburger School, published a number of writings, among other things, also the oldest extant chronicle of the city, which handed down a number of details to Dornburger history of the now-defunct sources.
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), stayed several times in today's " Goethe Castle "
• Carl August Christian Sckell, scion of a Hofgärtnerfamilie, landscape architect at the time of Goethe, created the still-existing ensemble of the castle gardens. Through him many details for Goethe's stay in Dornburg have survived.
• Baroness Frieda von Bülow (1857-1909), writer, died here
• Sophie Hoechstetter (1873-1943), novelist, lived longer time in Dornburg
• Gerhard Marcks (1889-1981), sculptor, initiated in 1920, the Bauhaus pottery in Dornburg
• Thomas Kretschmer (* 1955), civil rights activist and sculptor
• Andreas Arnstedt (* 1969), actor