Alt-Schieder

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Alt-Schieder
Schieder-Schwalenberg - Alt Schieder fortifications (3) .JPG
Creation time : probably 9th century
Castle type : Höhenburg, hillside castle
Conservation status: Wall remains
Place: Schieder (City of Schieder-Schwalenberg )
Geographical location 51 ° 54 '40 "  N , 9 ° 9' 49"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 54 '40 "  N , 9 ° 9' 49"  E
Alt-Schieder (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Alt-Schieder
Alt-Schieder, site plan from 1916

The Alt-Schieder fortification is located 180 to 200 meters above sea level on a step on the western slope of the Kahlenberg in the Schieder district of the town of Schieder-Schwalenberg in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia . Only the remnants of the wall and elevations of the ground remain from the complex.

Description and history

Alt-Schieder consists of a 4.2 hectare main and an older 1.7 hectare outer bailey. After the main castle was built, part of the outer ramparts was leveled.

The first archaeological excavations in the main castle of the ramparts were carried out in 1899 by Carl Schuchhardt together with Otto Weerth . Further excavations followed in 1939 by Leo Nebelsiek . The excavations revealed the foundations of houses and a church. Based on the excavation results, the use of the main castle is dated to the early 11th to the 13th century. The church was probably used until the middle of the 15th century.

No excavations have yet taken place in the inner area of ​​the outer bailey. According to more recent research results it is assumed that the outer bailey is the "Villa Scitiru" (Villa Schieder) listed in the list of properties of the Corvey monastery in 822 and that it can therefore be assigned to the Carolingian period . In 997 the plant was named Curtis by Emperor Otto III. transferred to Archbishop Giselher von Magdeburg.

After Alt-Schieder was abandoned in the first half of the 13th century, the Barkhof settlement in the valley of the Emmer was built as a direct successor (today flooded by the Schiedersee ).

literature

  • Kai Niederhöfer: Alt-Schieder. A medieval fortification in the Emmertal. Lippische Mitteilungen aus Geschichte und Landeskunde, Volume 71, 2002, pp. 93–147.
  • Niederhöfer quay: The medieval fortifications Alt-Schieder near Schieder-Schwalenberg, Lippe district. Early Castles in Westphalia, Issue 22. Ed. By the Antiquities Commission for Westphalia, Münster 2004.
  • Friedrich Hohenschwert : Prehistoric and early historical fortifications in Lippe . Lippe Studies, Vol. 4, Landesverband Lippe (Ed.). Münster 1978. ISBN 3-921428-21-1 .
  • Friedrich Hohenschwert: The district of Lippe II - Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, Stuttgart 1985, p. 174, ISBN 3-8062-0428-4 .
  • Roland Linde: Alt-Schieder and Barkhof - New considerations on medieval rule and settlement in the Schieder area . In: Lippe messages from history and regional studies . 79th volume. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-89534-849-5 .

Web links

Commons : Alt-Schieder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry on Alt-Schieder in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
  • New studies on Alt-Schieder ( PDF )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Schuchhardt: "Atlas of prehistoric fortifications in Lower Saxony", Hanover 1916
  2. ↑ Leo Nebelsiek: “Prehistoric and early historical castles in Lippe”, 1950
  3. ^ Kai Niederhöfer: The medieval fortifications Alt-Schieder near Schieder-Schwalenberg, Lippe district. Early Castles in Westphalia, Issue 22, Antiquities Commission for Westphalia, Münster 2004
  4. ↑ Roland Linde: Episcopal Main Courtyards and Vorwerke in Lippe , in Heimatland Lippe, February 2011
  5. ^ RI II, 3 n.1227, in: Regesta Imperii Online, (accessed January 5, 2013)