The Veste wax castle, frequently also only briefly wax castle mentioned, is a medieval castle in the area of the wax castle municipality, belonging to the three equal, in the Ilm circle in Thuringia. In the course of its history the castle exchanged frequently their owner and constantly and was developed. Today it serves as hotel and trip restaurant and accommodates a privately led museum.

History

There were first buildings on conical, 421 m the high Wassenberg (old high German for steep mountain) probably already around 930. The building was advanced by the realm abbey Hersfeld to the safety device of the extensive possessions in the area by Arnstadt.

From 1090 to 1098 the Hersfelder abbott Friedrich on the castle lived and died here. It let the castle, which was heavily carried forward by feuds, repair in this time. Around the year 1100 the realm abbey left the castle to the land count of Thuringia. The first document with the mention of the wax castle originates from the year 1140, in which a knight is mentioned aristocracy ago by Wassenburg. In the course of the military conflicts between the Staufen and Welfen became the castle end 12. Century into the fights pulled in and the welfisch gesinnte archbishop of Cologne settled at at the time the Wassenburg so mentioned. In the following decades the castle was pulled in several times into the conflicts of the rivaling forces within the realm. Thus took the castle in the year 1204 Philipp of Swabia. Afterwards the owners between the count von Orlamnde and starting from 1306 black castle changed. Under count XII., who possessed the castle starting from 1306, she experiences her bloom time. In the year 1369, the following owner, Johann II. of black castle had to sell the castle to the land count of Thuringia, in order to settle war debts. This saw itself several times forced in the future to pawn the castle. In this way the castle came around 1420 in the hand of Apel of Vitzthum, which attained sad celebrity as a robbery knight of Thuringia.

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