Old castle in Lage (Lippe)

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Old castle
Excavation work in July 2016

Excavation work in July 2016

Alternative name (s): House on location, stone work
Creation time : around 1300 to 1400/1618
Castle type : Niederungsburg, location
Construction: Truss
Place: location
Geographical location 51 ° 59 '27.3 "  N , 8 ° 47' 20.5"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 59 '27.3 "  N , 8 ° 47' 20.5"  E
Old castle in Lage (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Old castle in location

The so-called old castle was one of the oldest surviving half-timbered buildings in the center of Lage ( Lippe district , North Rhine-Westphalia ). Built in 1618, the listed building was demolished in 2004. Critics accuse the city of having done nothing to secure it for years.

location

The building, popularly known as the Old Castle, was located on the western outskirts of Lage, at the intersection of Lange Strasse and Friedrich Petri Strasse. The last house number was Friedrich Petri Straße 5. The Werre runs west of the house, which is called the Free Court on older land register plans . The sovereign water mill , which had already been demolished in the 1960s, was in the immediate vicinity .

The favorable location not far from an old Werre crossing led to the assumption that this is where the Burg Lage once stood.

history

The castle site of Lage has been attested since the 14th century. In historical documents it is called the Haus zur Lage or Steinwerk . It is likely to have been a small fortification, a stone or solid house that was surely surrounded by a moat . Such systems are likely to have resembled the ponds that can still be found today in large numbers in southern Germany . In the Everstein feud (1404-09) the castle was captured, but not completely destroyed.

In 1532 the von Barkhausen family received the house as a fief . In 1589, with the death of the last tenant, it fell back to the sovereign, who set up the building as a residence and official residence of the bailiffs of Lage. The successor building, which was built in 1618 instead of the old castle, was probably built for these purposes. In 1716 the bailiff Hermann Henrich Brandt acquired the building from Count Friedrich Adolph zur Lippe .

The later owners included the governor Vogt, Cornelius Koopmann, master hunter Phälig (1782) and the governor Reuter (1822/23). The house thus served as the administrative headquarters for a long time after it became privately owned. It was not until the 19th century that the building was replaced by a new office building on the market square, today's pharmacy at Lange Straße 63. In the period that followed, the "Old Castle" served commercial purposes.

In the 1980s, the property on Friedrich Petri Straße was acquired by the city of Lage and placed under monument protection. In 1985, the building was then measured and historically examined on behalf of the local association of the Lippische Heimatbund . There were considerations to establish a local history museum in the building . However, these plans were never implemented. In the years that followed, the house, which was important for the city's history, deteriorated more and more; Remedial measures were not taken. In 2004 it was finally canceled due to dilapidation.

Excavation work has been going on at the Old Castle since 2014, and the site is now protected as a ground monument. A floor relief was also uncovered during the restoration.

Building history and building description

The old bailiwick was a half-timbered building about 19.6 × 9.3 meters. The dendrochronological examination of the timber resulted in the felling date 1618. Since in earlier times the wood was mostly used immediately after the felling, the house was most likely built in 1618/19. It was not a very wide Wandständerbau whose ceiling beams in the stand were eingehälst the high outer walls. The compartments of the gable were originally filled with decorative bricks.

There was originally a large gate in the south-east gable, which was later replaced by a front door. It led to the large hall with the Flett kitchen . To the right of the hall was a large living room with a basement. The basement had quarry stone walls up to 55 cm thick and was only slightly deepened due to the high groundwater level. Behind this built-in room, the hall widened to the kitchen, which was equipped with a large stone fireplace. Behind the kitchen there was a large heated room that took up the entire width of the house.

In 1769, a half-timbered extension was added to the north-western gable , which contained two rooms. These probably served as stables. The interior of the house was rebuilt over and over again and adapted to the needs of the residents. So two chambers were built in at the end of the hall and in the middle of the 19th century another annex was built on the left side of the house, which accommodated a room and another chamber. The hallway, which was once passable, has now been converted into a hallway and the old gate has been replaced by a normal front door. The rear hall, on the other hand, was provided with an archway and converted into a cross hall.

meaning

As the former bailiwick and administrative building of Lage, the so-called "Old Castle" was of great importance in the history of the city.

The narrow Wandständerbau with the great hall, the side bar mounting and the rear hall corresponded entirely to the type of urban hall building and differed so fundamentally from the more rural residential influenced the patch location. Similar residential buildings can still be found in Detmold , Lemgo and Bad Salzuflen today .

The overall layout of the property with its free-standing main house, however, was strongly reminiscent of urban aristocratic courts.

literature

  • Heinrich Stiewe: "Old Castle" and "Free Court" in location. On the history of the construction and use of an unusual half-timbered house. In: Heimatland Lippe , Vol. 85 (1992), September, pp. 242-248, ISSN  0017-9787 digitized

Web links

  • Entry about Burg Lage in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute

Individual evidence

  1. Wolfgang Becker: During the restoration of the "Old Castle" workers uncover valuable relief. In: lz.de. June 21, 2016. Retrieved July 10, 2016 .