Old Castle (Osterode)
| Old castle | ||
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 Fragment of the tower of the "Old Castle" in Osterode / Harz |
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| Creation time : | First mentioned in 1153 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Osterode am Harz | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 43 '47.6 " N , 10 ° 15' 25.6" E | |
| Height: | 255 m above sea level NHN | |
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The old castle is the ruin of a spur castle in Osterode am Harz in the Lower Saxony district of Göttingen . The listed landmark of the city only consists of half of a keep .
Geographical location
The castle rest is located northeast of the Osteroder old town on the southwest flank of the Butterberg , a mountain spur of the southwestern roof of the Harz low mountain range between the Söse in the south and its tributary Lerbach in the northwest. The Bergfriedrest stands at about 250 to 255 m above sea level. NHN . Today it is located inside a cemetery through which access is possible. The Alte Harzstraße ran in the Lerbachtal .
investment
Only a small remnant of the keep has been preserved from the old castle on a castle square measuring 40 x 60 m . Most of the facility has been removed as a quarry. The tower ruins were carefully secured and renovated between 1995 and 1997. Originally the round keep was 33 m high and had an outer diameter of 15 m. Its walls were up to three and a half meters thick and it had five floors.
history
The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1153. It belonged to Henry the Lion since the 12th century . After his death, his son Otto IV came into their possession. She later inherited Otto the child . Other owners were Albrecht the Tall One and Heinrich the Wonderful . In the 14th and 15th centuries the castle was used as the seat of the Dukes of Grubenhagen and as the widow's seat of the family. It was last inhabited by the Duchess Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen, who died in 1513. Then the plant began to deteriorate.
On his trip to the Harz Mountains in September 1824, Heinrich Heine also climbed the castle ruins and describes them as follows:
“Before I took the road, I climbed the ruins of the ancient Osteroder castle. They only consist of half of a large, thick-walled tower that looks as if it has been eaten by cancer. "
literature
- Ernst Andreas Friedrich : The castle ruin Osterode , pp. 85–87, in: If stones could talk. Volume IV, Landbuch-Verlag, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-7842-0558-5
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments: Bremen Lower Saxony . tape 6 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1992, ISBN 3-422-03022-0 , p. 1077 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Webcam on the castle
- Say: "How the castle became a ruin" ( Memento from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Reports about the Alte Burg - Heimatstube Freiheit e. V.
- Detailed description of the old castle at karstwanderweg.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Holger Kulke: The old castle in Osterode: Securing and renovating the keep ruins (1995–1997) In: karstwanderweg.de , accessed on February 13, 2018.
- ^ Heinrich Heine: Die Harzreise , in: Ders .: Travel pictures. First part. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1926, p. 132.