Heinrichsberg Castle

The Heinrichsberg castle is a ruin north of the hamlet of Harzgerode Mägdesprung near the federal road 185 in the district of Harz, in Saxony -Anhalt.

History

It should have been built as a protective fortress for the nearby steel mills by the Counts and later Princes of Anhalt, whose family seat was only about 3 km away from the Selke. As of 1307, the Counts of Stolberg be referred as vassals of Henry Anhalt mountain. However, the original protective function of the castle changed under the stolbergischen crew, because the location on the northeastern periphery of the count's possessions fort served as a base for highwaymen on the road leading past resin. According Cyriacus Spangenberg Mansfeld chronicle the castle of Count Dietrich and Heinrich von Hohenstein and their sons in 1344 was captured and executed the living there mugger.

The renewal of Anhalt Lehnsbriefe about Heinrichsberg for the counts of Stolberg place in the years 1377 and 1381st Then there are decades no written evidence to the castle, which fell into disrepair and was already in 1491 called desolate castle, which in mortgage possession of Friedrich von itself Hoym was. The Lords of Hoym at that time were also carriers of Anhalt fief Bärenrode, Bolkendorf and half of the village Dankerode. These goods they pledged to the Counts of Stolberg, including Prince Bernhard VI. of Anhalt- Bernburg 1452 lord gave his consent. 1461 Count Henry of Stolberg paid the amount due of 450 Rhenish florins to Frederick the Elder. , Friedrich the Younger and Henry of Hoym for the purchase of the two deserted villages Olvesfelde and Mußeberg and the half village Dankerode.

The Princes Ernst and Wolfgang of Anhalt renewed in 1514 the investiture of Stolberg with the castle Heinrichsberg and accessories, the village of Breitenstein, the then already deserted village Ammacht, the trees at Grafe pond, a field at Guentersberge and the field to Lingesbach, half the village Dankerode and other justices. In Lehnsbrief also said the stolbergische right to several resin goods, in particular three, situated between mountains and Günter Harzgerode waste places shall be kept in records whose vassals nor were the lords of Hoym then. However, Count Botho was already Knight Magnus von Hoym in purchase negotiations. The Stolberg had done more financial strength to establish a connection between the information already in its possession cities Guentersberge and Harzgerode by land acquisition, and thus expand the stolbergischen power range in the northeast. Magnus von Hoym, however, died before the conclusion of the purchase contract. He left the minor son Friedrich von Hoym, with its guardians Count Botho zu Stolberg 1518 the Erbkaufvertrag completed. The purchase price of these related since 1430 the family of Anhalt Hoym fiefs amounted to 1,550 florins. After reaching the age of majority Friedrich ratified by Hoym 1530 concluded Erbkauf, but it increased the purchase price to 900 gold florins, as he said, that the goods were then sold under value.

The late medieval deserted village Bärenrode was made ​​habitable by order of Count Botho zu Stolberg in the 16th century and by the Vorwerk there, built from 1535 onwards the administrative seat of your own office. The only few kilometers away, castles and mountain Erich Heinrich Berg, who were sunk by ever stronger decline into irrelevance, were now managed by the Office of Bärenrode. Of the possessions of both castles later only the original to the castle Heinrichsberg belonging village Breitenstein and the extensive forests had acquired greater importance.

51.67527777777811.132222222222Koordinaten: 51 ° 40 ' 31 " N, 11 ° 7' 56" E

• Ruined castle in Saxony -Anhalt
• Structure in the resin
• Building in Anhalt
• Harzgerode