The castle ruin Straufhain stands on the mountain of the same name with Streufdorf (municipality Straufhain) in the southThuringian district Hildburghausen. The old name for the castle was "“Struphe"” later and "“Strauf"”. The mountain Straufhain, a basalt collection, is with 449 meters height the highest collection of the Heldburger of country. The later designation "“Straufhain"” for the forest surrounding the mountain (a White Paper EN and an oak forest) becomes today for the forest, which mountain uses and for the castle ruin equally. To be recognized the ruin Straufhain today large by close hardwood forest covered, only in the winter term are the walls from the valley.

Reconstruction

Today only remainders of the former Palas are received, the thick walls are nevertheless quite impressive. Since written certifications are over the castle much RSR, it gave several attempts to reconstruct the original castle often from speculations overlaid. It is safe that she consisted of several buildings, which took the entire summit by underpinning had because of the cramped space conditions the surface is artificially extended. A man-high Schildmauer surrounded the castle, the outside walls of the buildings on the summit including. Something underneath a blocked further covering wall the entrance, which was possible over only. Still further below surrounding Ringmauer followed after a barrier ditch the entire mountain. The water supply of the castle, which was provisional possible in emergency from cisterns, was not problematic a source outside of the Ringmauer was reliable, at the foot of the mountain supplied one the further fresh water, which had to be taken up with donkeys. The water problem was surely one of the principal reasons for the later task of the castle. Probably in the farmer war around 1525 the castle was however not destroyed, is occupied. Afterwards it was not again developed. Around 1780 still four floors of the Palas stood as ruin. Homeland friends strove again and again to receive the ruin.

History

The neighbouring settlements strufedorp (today Streufdorf) and siduchestat (today Seidingstadt), both belong today to the municipality Straufhain, to 800 in a document are together called, the castle could to this time have existed. At that time the count sex of game mountain controlled the area, later replaced it the hennebergische sex of the so-called Popponen. Under Poppo VI., it married 1136 Bertha castle Struphe a bloom time, deeply felt of Saxonia, maintained the societies and in siduchestat took place tournaments. Under Poppo VII. (it called itself Poppo comes de Struphe and governed 1190 to 1245) was castle Struphe an realm-important cultural center. One of its sons, Hermann II. and count von Strauf married 1245 at the royal yard to Mainz Margarethe, the sister of the Dutch king. Their son they called again Poppo. Also at their time the castle was a cultural center, the sphere of influence covered starting from 1247 also the care Coburg. Thus castle Struphe the largest center of power of the region was southern the of forest. Around 1525 the castle was probably destroyed. The neighbour castles Veste Coburg and Veste hero castle took over the role of the abandoned Straufhain. The dukes of Saxonia Hildburghausen loved the quiet place with the ruin, with it as window blind took place on the mountain theatre performances and patriotic ceremonies. In Seidingstadt the dukes established a hunting seat (that the GDR authorities purge and to tear off left). The forests around the Straufhain were always a popular hunting ground. At times of the German division the entrance to the mountain was closed over decades for the public, it was militarily occupied by the border troops of the GDR. At the east foot of the mountain the internal border fence ran and there lay the notorious mine fields. Homeland friends marked moving ways after the German unit the entrance to the Straufhain restored, are the mountain a popular trip goal.

Literature

• Norbert fox: The Heldburger country. Fiddler publishing house, Coburg 1994

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