Harliburg

The Harliburg (also Harlyburg or Herlingsberg ) at Vienenburg district of Goslar, in Lower Saxony is a former imperial castle in Harly Forest.

Location

The site of the former castle slope ( 193 m above sea level. NHN ) is located around 1 km (air line) north-northeast of Vienenburg (141 m), which lies approximately 10 kilometers ( direct distance) north-east of Goslar. Below and to the south and east of the former castle wraps around the Oker the southeast end of the Harly Forest.

A few hundred meters southwest of the Harliburg located in Okertal Vienenburger the lake. Almost exactly 2 km west-northwest is the Harlyberg ( 255.9 m), the highest elevation of Harly Forest. A few hundred meters east of the former Harliburg leads past a section of national highway 395 on Harly forest, the highway crosses here 241.

History

1203, the Harliburg of King Otto IV was built as the imperial castle. You should, like the earlier 10 km northwest standing love castle, used the threat of the access roads to Goslar, which remained the Hohenstaufen Philip of Swabia. Most recently, held Otto 1218 shortly before his death at the castle on.

End of the 13th century the castle came to the Guelphs. The Bishop of Hildesheim accused Henry of Brunswick- Mirabilis Grubenhagen at the Erfurt parliament in 1290, having violated by tolerating street robberies of the garrison force since the 1284 general peace. So the Herlingsberger war was triggered, in which the Bishop of Hildesheim in 1291 after four months of siege took the Harliburg and destroyed by demolition. Their stones were used, among other things for the construction of the moated castle Wiedelah 1292-1297, which is about 2 km to the southeast. The stones were also used to build the nearby and was built around 1300 Vienenburg Vienenburg.

Today, the former Harliburg which is overgrown by dense forest, only ring ramparts and moats available.