Leutenberg

Leutenberg is a rustic city in the district Saalfeld Rudolstadt in Thuringia, referred to as City of the 7 Valleys. The area turned into first cited in 1187 as Lutenberg first documented. In 1208, the province Saalfeld was given with the aid of King Otto IV to Schwarzburg. Among them became possibly also human beings mountain, but without being explicitly stated. The then named castle lies high above the valley of the Sormitz northeast of the metropolis center of Leutenberg.

It changed into strategically constructed on a spur like mountain pinnacle over the valley. It was built with the aid of the Herren von Leutenberg. They are formally named from 1187. In the 13th century, the Counts of Schwarzburg proprietors, because the citadel and land have been surpassed over by King Otto IV as a royal loan. In 1326, for the primary time, the town of Luthenberg was cited in a document. In 1395 the closing Dominican monastery became built inside the vital German region in Leutenberg. From 1362 to 1564 the town and Veste was then the seat of a separate line of Schwarzburger: Schwarzburg Leutenberg. The counts of Gleichen besieged Bastion 1447 in vain.