Reinsburg

En un regard

Le château en bref

On the wooded ridge of the Reinsberge, at an altitude of about 600 metres south-west of the village of Reinsfeld, now part of Arnstadt, the Reinsburg is the ruin of a ridge castle that watched over the trade and military routes of the Gera and Wipfra valleys. Its earth embankments suggest that an older enclosure already occupied the site before the medieval fortress. For a time a possession of the County of Kevernburg, it changed hands in the second half of the 13th century and was probably stormed for the last time in 1289 or 1290, during the pacification campaign of Rudolf of Habsburg, which destroyed dozens of Thuringian castles. Nineteenth-century writers called it a "robber castle". Its oval enclosure of some sixty metres, the largest of the castles on the slopes of the Gera, can still be made out through ditches, banks and heaps of rubble.