Stapelburg Castle

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Ruins of Stapelburg (April 2012)

The Stapelburg Castle is the ruins of a medieval castle on the northern road protection resin edge in Stapelburg in the district of Harz, in Saxony- Anhalt.

History

The Stapelburg was as road protection castle and customs house before 1306, built by the Counts of Wernigerode to the military road that connected her ancestral castle with the significant imperial and mountain town of Goslar. The castle was pledged several times and came in 1394 through the purchase of 600 marks in the possession of the bishopric of Halberstadt. From Bishop John of Halberstadt, Count Botho zu Stolberg on January 25, 1432 the castle Stapelburg their accessories as a pledge in reception after it shall have been pledged previously died of the 1429 Wernigeröder last count. Stapelburg but was again redeemed by the diocese of Halberstadt and pledged to Heinrich von Bila, the last mortgage holder was before Stapelburg of Bishop Gebhard von Halberstadt on June 4, 1463 200 Rhenish florins for life - that is until 1511 - to Count Henry ( the Elder. ) was pledged to Stolberg. In its final years, the castle was pretty stack expire. The aging Earl and his son Botho committed on April 13, 1509 against the administrator of the Bishopric of Halberstadt, Archbishop Ernst von Magdeburg, the Stapelburg rebuild within eight years, making it again a precious or bailiff could take his seat. Then the two Stolberg were invested with Stapelburg.

1559 continued the Archbishop Sigismund von Magdeburg as administrator of the Bishopric of Halberstadt against the will of the heavily indebted counts of Stolberg an influential representative of the family of Bila, the earlier half city council Dr. Heinrich von Bila, who worked as an assessor at the Imperial Court of Justice, in Stapelburg a. He built from the castle and let the Vorwerk Bilenshausen or Create Bilashausen at the foot, in the immediate surroundings a village settlement arose on the name Stapelburg passed. The heirs of Dr. von Bila sold the castle and village Stapelburg 1596 for 45,000 dollars to Statius von Munchausen. After its bankruptcy (1619 ) of the property came in 1625, again at the cathedral chapter of Halberstadt. After long negotiations succeeded Count Christian Ernst of Stolberg- Wernigerode, secure in Berlin compared with the cathedral chapter of Halberstadt from the March 11, 1722 Stapelburg for the next few centuries as a permanent accessory of the county of Wernigerode. King Frederick William I of Prussia presented on December 11, 1727 by final disposition of the territorial claims of the now Prussian now Halberstadt cathedral chapter, the old connection with the county of Wernigerode restored.