Giebichenstein Castle ( German : Burg Giebichenstein ) is a castle in Giebichenstein district of Halle (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt , Germany. It is part of the Romanesque Road ( Strasse der Romanik ).
6-605: Being a Burgward in the 9th century, the castle became a royal residence of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor , who gave it to the Archbishopric of Magdeburg which he had established in 968. Halle had practically reached a state of political autonomy in 1263. The same happened with Magdeburg and when the archbishops finally left Magdeburg, after a series of conflicts with the ever more powerful city council, Giebichenstein Castle became their principal residence in 1382, which it remained until
12-683: A garrison of cavalry, usually Slavic. The first burgwards ( civitates or Burgen ) were Merovingian and Carolingian constructions, mostly built to defend against the Saxons . An important line of burgwards lay along the Unstrut west of Merseburg , but it declined in importance in the early ninth century after the integration of the Saxons into the Frankish state. The first burgwards in Sorbian territory were founded in
18-529: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a Saxony-Anhalt building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Burgward A burgward or castellany was a form of settlement used for the organisation of the northeastern marches of the Kingdom of Germany in the mid-10th century. Based on earlier organisations within the Frankish Empire and among
24-499: The Slavs , the burgwards were composed of a central fortification (a burg ) with a number of smaller, undefended villages, perhaps ten to twenty (the ward ), dependent on it for protection and upon which it was dependent economically. The fortified site served as a place of refuge during attack and also as an administrative centre for tax collection, the Church, and the court system. It was given
30-544: The 940s. Not much later they were being established among the Hevelli and around Brandenburg . There were three lines of burgwards defending eastern Thuringia . Many burgwards were controlled by monasteries, such as Hersfeld and Fulda . The burgwards were detested by the Slavs, but they were effective in their time. They converted the "tribute-paying peoples" into "census-paying peasants." The German reverses of 983, however, doomed
36-586: The archbishops moved into the newly built Moritzburg (Halle) in 1503. The lower castle (German: Unterburg ) is one of the two campuses of the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle (Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design). 51°30′10″N 11°57′14″E / 51.50278°N 11.95389°E / 51.50278; 11.95389 This article about a castle in Germany
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