Burg Schonburg

Schonburg is a fortress over the village Schonburg near Naumburg in Burgenlandkreis in Saxony Anhalt. In 1137, Schonburg become first stated in a document. Legend has it that it was already founded via Ludwig the Springer. In the twelfth century, the proprietors of the fort have been the noble families of Schonburg and Schonberg. Since 1174, Episcopal ministry Naumburg has been named Schoenburg. From approximately the 13th century until the Reformation, the citadel changed into inside the instant and feudal ownership of the bishops of Naumburg Zeitz and additionally served as their summer house.

In 1355, the fortress Schonburg became mortgaged for a brief time to the Naumburg cathedral bankruptcy. In the Saxon fratricide Apel von Vitzthum conquered inside the service of Landgrave Wilhelm III. The fortress, which burned out. The Burgward Schonburg east of Naumburg fashioned with 12 surrounding villages because the 12th century a larger to the Naumburg Zeitz Hochstift belonging goods district, from the late Middle Ages, the penal workplace Schoenburg with the places Schoenburg, Possenhain and proportionally Grobitz and Plotha become born.