Wölanburg
| Wölanburg | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Erdburg, Wölanberg | |
| Creation time : | 800 to 900 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Harsewinkel | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 57 '10 " N , 8 ° 12' 42.5" E | |
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The Wölanburg even earthwork or Wölanberg called, is a Outbound Wallburg in the East Westphalian town of Harsewinkel in Gütersloh in North Rhine-Westphalia .
location
The rectangular castle covered an area of four acres and was south of the Wigbolds Harsewinkel. Starting from the Richterhof Meier Overesch there, it extended in the shape of a tongue by about 1 kilometer to the southwest. In the north and west the dune landscape is bounded by the Abrocksbach , in the south by the lowlands of the Ems , in the east by the Lutter .
history
The castle was built in the 9th century. It is only listed as Erthburg in the 1198 inventory of the Marienfeld Monastery .
Extensive excavations by Anton Dom in 1954 proved the existence of the castle. In 1957 the last walls of the castle were removed.
literature
- Walter Werland: 1000 years of Harsewinkel - On the local history of the city on the Ems . Ed .: City of Harsewinkel. Aschendorff'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Münster 1965, p. 55-60 .
Web links
- Entry on Wölanburg in the private database "Alle Burgen".