Sagas/Tales

The treasure in the Dobra ruin
According to the legend there is a treasure buried in Dobra. The devil guards the gold and counts it from time to time with a terrible howl. This gold can be lifted. But this can only be done by a man whose cradle was made from the trunk of a pine tree that grew on top of the keep. The devil therefore uprooted the tree, and now one must wait until a pine tree has grown there again.

The trick
In 1645 the Swedes are said to have besieged Dobra Castle. According to the legend, the crew resorted to a ruse to make the besiegers leave. When there was only one piece of cattle left, they made the animal roar loudly by pinching it with red-hot tongs, then slaughtered it and threw the pieces of meat among the besiegers. The Swedes therefore thought that there were still rich supplies in the castle and left without having achieved anything.

The walled-in man at Dorba Castle
At that time, when knights still lived in the castles, a nobleman lived in Steinegg, who had a son. On Stallegg, on the other hand, a daughter was born to the lord of the castle. Squire and damsel grew up to the delight of their parents and distinguished themselves from all the other children of the area partly by grace and loveliness, partly by strength and bravery. The two young human children liked to see each other and great was their sorrow when they had to separate for a long time. This was necessary, however, because the squire was sent by his father to a great castle, where he was to learn the craft of arms and acquire and acquire fine courtly manners. When he returned home years later, he had become a handsome knight. His first way was to the playmate of his youth. But what heartache he felt when he had to welcome her as the wife of the old lord of Dobra Castle. However, life's fate could not be changed and he consoled himself by the fact that he was often allowed to come to the honorable knight's wife at Dobra Castle, because even she could not forget the blissful youth at his side. But the old curmudgeon, the lord of Dobra, did not like this at all and one day he had his servants seize his wife's guest and wall him up alive in a windowless room of the castle. His wife, however, was chased from the castle as a shaven-headed dishonored woman. Thus the two once hopeful human children from the battle castles had been plunged into great suffering by their love for each other.
From Kißling's "Frau Saga" 8th series, page 89 no. 133.