Osterburg (Weida)

The Osterburg (German: [ˈoːstɐˌbʊʁk] ) is a castle located conspicuously on a hill in the middle of the town of Weida in the county of Greiz in the German state of Thuringia.

Osterburg
The fortified house at Weida
Weida
The Osterburg in Weida
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Coordinates	50°46′21″N 12°03′24″E
Type	hill castle
Code	DE-TH
Site information
Condition	preserved or largely preserved
Site history
Built	1163 to 1193

Description

Its 54-metre-high bergfried is the third highest and one of the oldest surviving 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.

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Sources

• Henriette Joseph, Haik Thomas Porada (eds.): Das nördliche Vogtland um Greiz. (Landschaften in Deutschland Werte der deutschen Heimat, Vol. 68). Böhlau, Cologne etc., 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, pp. 1–52.

External links

• The Osterburg at Weida (Weida town website)
• Friends of the Osterburg Weida
• Initiative to save the tower spire
• Newspaper article about renovation work at the Osterburg, OTZ, 24 May 2011