Asselburg
| Asselburg | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Asleburch, Asleburg, Assel Castle, Hesleburg | |
| Creation time : | 10th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Moat | |
| Place: | Hohenassel, district of Burgdorf (Wolfenbüttel district) | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 8 '39 " N , 10 ° 12' 47" E | |
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Asselburg (also Burg Assel , Asleburch , Asleburg or Hesleburg ) was a castle west of Hohenassel , today a district of Burgdorf in the Wolfenbüttel district in Lower Saxony .
buildings
Only parts of the moat have survived from the castle. From 1779 a mansion was built on the site of the castle, today's Burgdorf Castle .
history
Around 933 Bernward is said to have been born on the Asselburg , 983-1022 Bishop of Hildesheim. Other sources state that Bernwards was born around 950 and 960.
In 984, on the Asselburg, the property of Count Eckhard I, the partisans of King Otto III. together and prepared there under the leadership of the Saxon Duke Bernhard I , supported by the Archbishop of Mainz Willigis , a joint campaign against Heinrich the brawler .
Since the 12th century, the strategic function of Asselburg was transferred to Lichtenberg Castle, which was probably also part of the Assel lordship, and the complex fell into disrepair.
owner
Count of Assel
- Around 873 a Count Riedag / Ricdag (Winzenburg branch line) from Assel appears, the founder of the Lamspringe monastery and builder of Winzenburg Castle . His wife Emhild / Irmhildis was probably from the Immedinger family and Count Immed / Immat, the founder of the Ringelheim monastery . Their daughter Ricburga is said to have been the first abbess in Lamspringe.
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Eckhard I. von Assel , 947–950 Count von Assel from the Adalbero clan.
- Frederun ⚭ Hermann Graf von Schwalenberg († before 1018).
- Eckhard II of Assel .
- Hathwig or Hedwig von Assel († before 1018) ⚭ Count Altmann von Oelsburg († 1000/03); Today Ölsburg is a district of Ilsede . Altmann was in possession of the Stederburg , now called Steterburg, a district of Salzgitter-Thiede . As a widow, Hedwig and her daughter founded the Steterburg monastery on the Stederburg estate .
- Erkanbald († August 17, 1021), 997–1011 Abbot of Fulda and from 1011 until his death Archbishop of Mainz.
- Frederunda († March 16, 1020), founder and first abbess of Steterburg Monastery.
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Eckhard I. von Assel , 947–950 Count von Assel from the Adalbero clan.
- Heinrich I von Assel († 1107) was bishop of Paderborn from 1084-1090 and Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1102-1107. He was elected bishop by the Paderborn cathedral chapter in 1084 and confirmed in office by the Pope. As anti-bishop was Henry II. Of Werl by Emperor Henry IV. Used the outside Rome him in 1084 the Paderborn diocese transferred. Heinrich von Assel could not assert himself as part of the Pope and was expelled.
- Hedwig von Assel-Woltingerode ⚭ Hermann I. von Winzenburg ?
- Heinrich (von Winzenburg) Count von Assel (around 1110 / 15–1146) stood in the shadow of his brother Hermann II.
- ⚭1.) Eufemia von Vohburg, daughter of Count Diepold III.
- Otto (von Winzenburg) Count von Assel (around 1130 - August 31, 1171/75) ⚭ Salome († after 1185; daughter of Count Goswin II. Von Heinsberg and sister of the Archbishop of Cologne Philip I von Heinsberg ). The couple had no male offspring. In 1166/67 he took part in the fight against Henry the Lion . On August 15, 1186 at the Malstätte von Holle renounced the goods from the Lichtenbergen to Mölme in favor of the Adelog. Oedelum fell to the Loccum monastery . The Brunswick dukes, who made claims, got the eastern part. This created the border between the Diocese of Hildesheim and the Duchy of Braunschweig. After Salome's death, Heinrich the Lion took over the castle with the associated lands and other inventory. Only the castle church with its facilities and land was left to the bishop. The Guelphs, who withdrew to Lichtenberg Castle, left the Asleburg bailiffs to manage.
- Adelheid († December 25, 1185) ⚭ 1183 Adolf III.
- Otto (von Winzenburg) Count von Assel (around 1130 - August 31, 1171/75) ⚭ Salome († after 1185; daughter of Count Goswin II. Von Heinsberg and sister of the Archbishop of Cologne Philip I von Heinsberg ). The couple had no male offspring. In 1166/67 he took part in the fight against Henry the Lion . On August 15, 1186 at the Malstätte von Holle renounced the goods from the Lichtenbergen to Mölme in favor of the Adelog. Oedelum fell to the Loccum monastery . The Brunswick dukes, who made claims, got the eastern part. This created the border between the Diocese of Hildesheim and the Duchy of Braunschweig. After Salome's death, Heinrich the Lion took over the castle with the associated lands and other inventory. Only the castle church with its facilities and land was left to the bishop. The Guelphs, who withdrew to Lichtenberg Castle, left the Asleburg bailiffs to manage.
- ⚭2.) Richenza von Immenhausen, daughter of Count Dudo; Widow of Siegfried IV von Boyneburg
- Sophie (* 1145) ⚭ Rottmann I. Count of Himstedt
- ⚭1.) Eufemia von Vohburg, daughter of Count Diepold III.
In 1186, after Salome's death, Bishop Adelog von Hildesheim acquired Assel's property.
Later owners
When the von Assel family died out in 1596, Arndt von Kniestedt , whose grandmother came from the von Assel family, was enfeoffed by Duke Heinrich Julius of Braunschweig with the goods of the von Assel family. Between 1779 and 1783 the von Kniestedt family built a new manor house here. This house called "Burgdorf Castle" is now privately owned. In 1834 the estate fell back to the Duchy of Braunschweig, which initially leased it and sold it to Carl August Adolf von Cramm on December 6, 1845 . His family owned the estate until 1910.
literature
- Hans Adolf Schultz : Castles and palaces in the Braunschweiger Land .
- Wilhelm Schrader: The ancient noble family of Kniestedt . Self-published, Salzgitter-Bad 1975.
- Kurt Hasselbring: History of the Asselburg and the village of Burgdorf . Self-published, Burgdorf 1984, 91 pp.
- Margret Zimmermann, Hans Kensche: Castles and palaces in Hildesheimer Land . Hildesheim, 2001, pp. 24-25
Web links
- Entry by Stefan Eismann and Gudrun Pischke zu Asselburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Asselburg on "Genealogy Middle Ages"
- Salome von Heinsberg, Countess von Assel in "Genealogy Middle Ages"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Caspar Ehlers : The integration of Saxony in the Franconian Empire , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, p. 329, ISBN 3-525-35887-3
- ↑ http://www.berel-am-ries.de/seiten/Chronik/Urkunden-808-1523/Urkunden-808-1523.htm (?)
- ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz: Bernward, Bishop of Hildesheim. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 545-546.
- ^ Wilhelm Berges: Bernward, Bishop of Hildesheim. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 143 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ↑ Eckhard I. von Assel in "Genealogy Middle Ages"
- ↑ Kinship of Count Palatine Adalbero in "Genealogy Middle Ages"
- ↑ Erkanbald, Archbishop of Mainz in "Genealogy Middle Ages"
- ↑ Frederunda, Abbess of Stederburg in "Genealogy Middle Ages"
- ↑ Hedwig von Assel-Woltingerode (?) In "Genealogy Middle Ages"
- ↑ Heinrich, Count von Asleburg in "Genealogy Middle Ages"
- ^ Salome von Heinsberg in "Genealogy Middle Ages"
- ↑ http://home.hetnet.nl/~genealogie-scholgens/f1788.htm
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20070928010636/http://www.soehlde.de/gross_himstedt.htm ( Memento from August 11, 2012 on WebCite )
- ^ Carl Ludwig Grotefend: Adelog . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 79 f.