Osterburg (Weida)
Appearance
Osterburg | |
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The fortified house at Weida | |
Weida | |
![]() The Osterburg in Weida | |
Coordinates | 50°46′21″N 12°03′25″E / 50.77250°N 12.056806°E |
Type | hill castle |
Code | DE-TH |
Site information | |
Condition | preserved or largely preserved |
Site history | |
Built | 1163 to 1193 |
The Osterburg is located conspicuously on a hill in the middle of the town of Weida in the county of Greiz in the German state of Thuringia.
Description
Its 54-metre-high bergfried is the third highest and one of the oldest surving bergfrieds in Germany. Above its second array of battlements there is a watchman's parlour, which accommodated a watchman until 1917. On the terrace there is a monument which records that this was the furthest south that the ice sheet came in Germany during the Elster glaciation.
Literature
- Henriette Joseph, Haik Thomas Porada (Hrsg.): Das nördliche Vogtland um Greiz. (=Landschaften in Deutschland Werte der deutschen Heimat, Band 68). Böhlau, Köln u. a. 2006, ISBN 3-412-09003-4.
- Rosemarie Bimek, Heinz Fischer, Roland Gehring, Dr. Egbert Richter, Kurt Häßner, Dieter Hauer, Günter Kummer: 800 Jahre Osterburg, Weida in Thüringen. Stadtverwaltung Weida in Thüringen, Heimatmuseum Osterburg, Altenburg 1993, S. 1-52.
External links
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