Old Buckeburg

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Embankment of the castle

The Alte Bückeburg ( Castrum Bukkaburg ) is an abandoned castle on a ridge about 1 km east of the collegiate church of Obernkirchen . Their previous size is estimated at 60 × 80 meters. Today there are still individual depressions and embankments of the castle complex on the largely leveled area.

history

A castrum Bukkaburg is said to have been mentioned for the first time in the imperial annals in 775 when the victorious Carolingian army marched back from Saxony. However, the sources do not provide any information on this. It was the administrative seat of the Bukkigau . Originally the castle was owned by the Billungers and after their extinction passed to the Ascanians . The Vorwerk Rösehof, a mill and a small craft settlement, from which the town of Obernkirchen later developed, belonged to the Bückeburg. The knight Hermann von Arnheim (* around 1150; † 1213/1216) received the castle from the Ascanian Dietrich von Werben, a son of Albert I , as a fief . In 1180 the castle went to the Obernkirchen Abbey and Hermann von Arnheim had to leave it. He moved to Hus Aren Castle in the Bückeburg lowlands. At this time the castle is said to have already fallen into disrepair. The Alte Bückeburg is still mentioned in documents until 1236, although it was no longer of any significance. In 1616, Count Ernst von Holstein-Schaumburg sold the Burgplatz. In 1624, the Obernkirchen church book names citizens who had built houses on the castle square. The building material probably came from the earlier castle buildings. In 1746 the mountain ridge of Cölln acquired the building and set up a farm with a sheep farm. After the building burned down in 1874, an inn with a dance hall was built on the foundation walls; it was named Alte Bückeburg .

During the First World War , in 1917 the commissioner for soil antiquities in the county of Schaumburg carried out excavations on the castle grounds, in which Russian prisoners of war were involved. Remnants of the wall were uncovered and various archaeological finds were made, such as hand axes, battle axes, pottery shards and coins.

After the Second World War , the British occupying forces seized the site and built barracks under the name Harden Barracks . The inn served as an officers' mess. In 1960 the Federal Finance Administration took over the site. In 1989 it was used as collective accommodation for emigrants from the GDR and from the beginning to the middle of the 1990s it was used for a short time by the Bundeswehr . After that, the buildings were empty and were demolished around 2010. Today there is a large photovoltaic system on the site .

Today only a moat and a steep embankment remain from the castle. In the 1950s, ceramic shards were found on the former castle grounds. They could be classified as ball pots and earthenware from the 11th and 12th centuries.

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  1. ↑ According to the imperial annals , Emperor Charlemagne passed through the pagus [Gau] bukki in 775 . At that time the Osterliudi [Ostfalen] withdrew to the "pagus, quem dicunt nomine Bukki". Cf. Brosius, Dieter, Das Stift Obernkirchen 1167–1565 (= Schaumburger Studien 30), Bückeburg 1972, p. 8.

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 5 ″  N , 9 ° 8 ′ 40 ″  E