Steinbrück Castle
| Steinbrück Castle | ||
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 Steinbrück Castle |
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| Creation time : | 1383 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Clerical | |
| Place: | Steinbrück | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 13 '6.3 " N , 10 ° 13' 5.4" E | |
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The castle Steinbrück is a moated castle in Steinbrück , in the municipality of Söhlde in Hildesheim in Lower Saxony . It is located on the B1 / B444, which runs together here, on the Fuhse River .
description
The castle complex was surrounded by a moat . Access was via the two-storey gate house, in which there is an arched passage. The building is massive in a defensible manner and has a wall thickness of 1.7 meters. Behind it is the square keep . It makes up the southern section of a building in which the dungeon is located in the basement . Originally it was a distillery . This is followed by the four-story closes Palas at which the mansion was the main wing of the castle. The year 1589 above the outer door could be an indication of the date of construction. The stair tower of the palace was demolished in 1845. The Kehrwiederturm, which was probably built as a battery tower in 1573 , is located in front of the castle and connected to it by a casemated corridor. The up to five meter thick walls of the round tower suggest its former importance; he has five loopholes .
history
The castle was on the eastern border of the Hildesheim Monastery and the Duchy of Braunschweig , which formed the Fuhse. After the Battle of Dinklar , the Hildesheim Bishop Gerhard von Berg decided to protect this border against enemy intrusion. The commercial and military road between Hildesheim and Braunschweig , today's B 1, which runs along a dam in the Fuhseniederung, was ideal . After 1370, but before 1383, a moated castle was built at the strategically important intersection of road and river. Probably because of the stone road bridge on the trade route, the castle was initially referred to as the castle to the stone bridge. The builder was probably the knight Hans von Schwicheldt . From 1394 onwards the castle was pledged and it was renovated in 1421 due to its dilapidation. In 1425 the bishop donated the castle to the Hildesheim cathedral chapter , which expanded the castle as a fortification against the Brunswick dukes. The change of ownership, together with the jurisdiction, to the cathedral chapter of Hildesheim in 1425 formed the basis for the Steinbrück office with market and town rights, which existed until the 19th century. After a short time, the pledges continued throughout the 15th century, including those of von Salder , von Veltheim , von Wenden and von Reden .
In 1521 troops of Duke Heinrich the Younger and Duke Erich von Calenberg moved in front of the castle to enforce the imperial ban against the Hildesheim bishop Johannes . They took the castle after a short siege and killed the 50-strong crew. Duke Heinrich the Younger expanded the castle and was granted the area in the Quedlinburg Recess in 1523 . His son Duke Julius , Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, expanded the castle further in 1573 and had the Kehrwiederturm built as a battery tower.
From this time onwards it was a four-wing complex that formed the building and a wall. The former mayor of Lübeck Jürgen Wullenwever was imprisoned in a cellar dungeon of the castle from 1537 to 1537. In 1553 Vollrad von Mansfeld had his troops looted the castle and the surrounding villages, but was driven out a year later by Brunswick Duke Heinrich the Younger. Heinrich tried to eliminate the Protestant faith introduced in 1542 and to use the castle as a starting point for Catholicism.
Immediately after the Battle of Lutter in 1626, the victor Johann t'Serclaes von Tilly and his troops moved to the siege in front of Steinbrück Castle. It was handed over to him after about two weeks. After a decision by the Imperial Chamber Court , the castle came to the Hildesheim Cathedral Chapter at the end of 1626. In 1632, Swedish troops captured and looted the castle. After Hildesheim was conquered in 1634, the castle belonged to the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. In 1643 in the Hildesheim main recession , it was returned to the Hildesheim cathedral chapter. After the destruction caused by the war, the castle was of little military importance and was used as an estate from 1660. After the secularization of the Hildesheim cathedral chapter by Jérôme von Westfalen , the former castle became a state domain in 1810 . In 1812 the facility came into private ownership and from 1862 it belonged to the Hanover Monastery Chamber . It has been empty since 1818. The stair tower on the courtyard side of the palace was demolished in 1845.
After the Second World War , many Protestant refugees from the east and resettlers from the Salzgitter area found a new home in the village. For this purpose, the lands of the castle were divided into farms. In 1955 the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover acquired the castle. In 1956 the castle's Kehrwiederturm was converted into an Evangelical Lutheran church. This was consecrated on the third Sunday of Advent in 1956 by Bishop Johannes Lilje and was given the name Kehrwiederkirche . The roof, which was re-covered during church use, prevents further deterioration for the time being. Most of the castle was sold privately in 2013 and has been pending restoration ever since. The Batterieturm (Kehrwiederkirche with the evangelical cemetery) remained in the possession of the church and the archway in the community property. The Steinbrück Castle Association with over 150 members is committed to maintaining the castle complex . Occasionally, events similar to medieval markets take place on the castle grounds .
Today the former moated castle is one of the best preserved bishop's castles in Lower Saxony and one of the few authentically preserved medieval buildings in the region, along with the Marienburg and Steuerwald castles .
Trivia
According to press reports, there have already been several investigations by ghost hunters into paranormal phenomena in the castle .
literature
- Hermann Adolf Lüntzel : History of Steinbrück Castle in the Principality of Hildesheim and Jürgen Wullenweber . Hildesheim 1851
- Hans Adolf Schultz : Burgen und Schlösser des Braunschweiger Land , Braunschweig 1980, Steinbrück, the moated castle in the Fuhsetal , pp. 151–155, ISBN 3-87884-012-8
- Margret Zimmermann, Hans Kensche: Castles and palaces in Hildesheimer Land . Hildesheim, 2001, pp. 162-165
- Markus C. Blaich : New building research on Steinbrück Castle, Hildesheim district in: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony 2/2016, pp. 102-103
Web links
- Entry by Gudrun Pischke about Steinbrück Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Steinbrück Castle at burgen-web
- Castle owner's private website
- Brief description from the city of Hildesheim
- Description in the Braunschweig-Ostfalen region
- Picture gallery with 76 photos of the castle
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Stechert: The good spirits at Steinbrück Castle in the Braunschweiger Zeitung from July 1, 2017
- ↑ Dennis Nobbe: Next medieval camp at Steinbrück Castle in October in Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung from September 18, 2018
- ^ Ghost hunters at Steinbrück Castle in Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung from September 18, 2017