Gehren castle wall
| Gehren castle wall | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Burgwall Grüner Berg | |
| Creation time : | 10th century | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Castle stable, wall and moat remains | |
| Place: | Miter | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 47 '40.5 " N , 13 ° 37' 44.5" E | |
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The Gehren castle wall , also known as the Grüner Berg castle wall , is a defunct rampart near Gehren in the Dahme-Spreewald district in Brandenburg from the 10th to 14th centuries.
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The castle wall is located on a spur about 1800 meters southwest of Gehren near Walddrehna . In its vicinity, important trade routes crossed from Hamburg and Lüneburg to Silesia and from Leipzig to Frankfurt and further east.
The hill fort had a diameter of about 130 meters and an area of about 1.5 hectares. In the south of the complex, four-meter-high wall remains with the remnants of the moat in front have been preserved.
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Archaeological evidence
According to archaeological findings, an early Slavic settlement was built on the spur around 900 . According to dendrochronological data, a rampart with a five-meter-thick wood-earth construction was built on this around / after 960. The construction corresponded to the Slavic ( Slavonic castle wall ), but was unusually laid out on a spur and not, as usual, in a lowland. The wall was raised later. The facility was probably used until the 14th century.
Written mentions
The castle was probably the urbs (...) Iarina , reported by Thietmar von Merseburg at the beginning of the 11th century. Accordingly, the castle was named after Margrave Gero (d. 965). In 1010 King Henry II came to Iarina on the border of the Luzici area with a large army of Belgians , on a campaign against the Polish prince Bolesław Chrobry , who had occupied this area. There they met two brothers from the Heveller area who had supported Bolesław, possibly they were the masters of the castle. You were hanged. King Heinrich fell ill in the castle and had to break off the campaign and return. A smaller army moved further east and devastated the Bolesław area.
literature
- Ralf Gebuhr: Jarina and Liubusua - cultural-historical study on the archeology of prehistoric castles in the Elbe-Elster area. (= Studies on the Archeology of Europe, Vol. 6). Bonn 2007 pp. 34 f., 71-104.
- Markus Agthe, Heiko Wedel: A new look at the medieval castle on the "Green Mountain" near Gehren, Dahme-Spreewald district. In: Measurement Brandenburg 2011. pp. 81–92.
Web links
- Entry on Wallburg Gehren in the private database "Alle Burgen".
- Gehren Castle . German Historical Museum
- Gehren - Green Mountain “Jarina” . Central archaeological sites
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thietmar von Merseburg, Chronik , VI, 57, Latin in Robert Holtzmann (Ed.): Scriptores rerum Germanicarum, Nova series 9: The Chronicle of Bishop Thietmar von Merseburg and their Korveier revision (Thietmari Merseburgensis episcopi Chronicon) Berlin 1935, p. 344–345 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )