The remains of the Castle can be visited
CastlePenig - Zinnberg
Zinnberg Castle
The Zinnberg ruin, formerly also called Czynnemburg, is the ruin of a high castle on a flat, wooded mountain spur above the eastern high bank of the Zwickauer Mulde. The castle rock is located on the western edge of the Zinnberg district, about 2 km south of the town of Penig in the Mittelsachsen district.
The castle was probably built around 1170 to secure conquered Slavic territories and is later mentioned as the seat of power of the Burgraves of Altenburg.
In 1267, a "Heinricus de Cinnenberg" was first mentioned as a ministerialis of the Burgraves of Altenburg, and in 1290, a "castellanus in Zinnenberc" of the Margraves of Meißen was named. After a last appearance of the Zinneberg line of the Altenburgers, the castle fell to the Rochsburg line of the Altenburg Burgraves in 1299.
After the Altenburg Burgraves died out in the male line around 1327, the castle passed by inheritance to the Burgraves of Leisnig. In the 15th century, the castle began to decay.
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Of the former castle complex on an area of 32 by 12 meters with a moat to the south, a 4.8-meter-high stump of the keep with a wall thickness of up to 4.5 meters and the remains of the foundation walls are still preserved. The core castle area measured 17 by 50 meters and the curtain wall had a length of about 90 meters. The keep and the curtain wall show granulite stone filled with lime mortar in shell construction.
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