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Edelacker Legend Metal Relief at Neuenburg Castle

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Edelacker Legend Metal Relief at Neuenburg Castle

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Edelacker Legend Metal Relief at Neuenburg Castle

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Location: Freyburg (Unstrut), Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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Andrea und Huskys 🐺

April 23, 2025

The Edelacker legend is depicted here on the old city wall as a metal silhouette. It tells of Landgrave Ludwig II, who harnessed disobedient noblemen he had captured to a plough and had them plow a field below Neuenburg Castle. This piece of land has since been called Edelacker.

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Karla Chen

November 28, 2021

Artful wrought iron relief depicting the locally known legend of the Edelacker in a paper cut style.

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Karla Chen

December 6, 2022

The legend of Edelacker
Landgrave Ludwig II, who was later nicknamed "the Iron Man", was a very mild and kind gentleman at the beginning of his reign, just and lenient towards everyone.
At Ruhla, in a forest forge, he was "hard forged". Ludwig took the words of the blacksmith very much to heart and from that moment on became strict and serious in his nature, also looked everywhere for what was right, eased the pressure of the nobles, punished the unjust and forced the obstinate to obey.

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Karla Chen

December 6, 2022

Some knights and nobles didn't want to suffer that. So it came to a fight, Ludwig defeated them with his army and took them captive to his castle near Freyburg, the Neuenburg. There he had them stand before him, first punished them with harsh words, but then he led them to a field in front of the castle, found a plow there too, and harnessed the disobedient nobles four each, clad only in their shirts, in front of them and plowed a furrow with them as one usually did with horses. The servants wielded the plough, while the landgrave struck down the harnessed nobles with his scourge, driving them on so that they had to bend and often fell to the ground.

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Karla Chen

December 6, 2022

When a furrow was plowed, he employed four other noblemen until the whole field was plowed. He then led them back to the castle, where they had to pay homage to him again and swear the oath of allegiance.

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Karla Chen

December 6, 2022

But the landgrave had the field surrounded by white stones as an eternal memorial, and to this day it is called "The Edelacker".
But he won many secret enemies among the nobles, including from their children and friends. Since then he always wore an iron armor under his clothes. That's why he was called the "iron landgrave".
Source: Sagas and legends from Nebra (Unstrut), collected and retold by Rudolf Tomaszewski, Nebra 1987

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Berghexe

January 7, 2022

The legend is present again in the castle as a carving and as a legend itself. Here it is pictured.

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Edelacker Legend Metal Relief at Neuenburg Castle

1. View of the Unstrut Valley – Neuenburg Castle (Freyburg) loop from Nißmitz

2. Stone Breaker Path – Orchid Trail Tote Täler loop from Freyburg (Unstrut)

3. Schweigenberge Vineyards – Neuenburg Castle loop from Naumburg (Saale) Hbf

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