Ampleben Castle
| Ampleben Castle | ||
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 Manor of the Ampleben manor from the 1790s |
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| Alternative name (s): | Ampleben Castle (Amplewe) | |
| Creation time : | around 1100 to 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, trench remains | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Construction: | Elm limestone | |
| Place: | Kneitlingen - Ampleben | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 10 '36.6 " N , 10 ° 44' 42.9" E | |
| Height: | 193 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Ampleben even lock Ampleben is an Outbound castle in the village of Ampleben the community Kneitlingen in Wolfenbüttel in Lower Saxony .
The castle was on the southwestern edge of the village at the foot of the Elm . On the castle site, which is an increased area of around 50 × 70 meters, there is now a manor house. To the northwest of it, a part of a moat about 30 meters long and 15 meters wide has been preserved. A land map from 1765 shows the castle as a square area bordered by moats and on which a two-wing residential building stands.
The castle, built in the 12th century, was owned by the von Ampleben family, whose lineage was first documented in 1195 and went out in 1427. The castle was first mentioned in a document in 1305, and in 1318 Duke Otto gave it to Johannes von Ampleben as a fief . In 1355 Duke Magnus I acquired it and pledged it to the von Uetze family in 1360 .
After the citizens of Brunswick and Magdeburg had destroyed the castle as a "robbery castle" in 1425 due to road robberies, the city of Braunschweig acquired the property in 1426 through a settlement with Duke Bernhard I. It was probably rebuilt as a castle in the middle of the 16th century. It was a square surrounded by a moat, the farm buildings in the north and the castle building from two right-angled wings. The manor house that exists today was built in the 1790s .
Ampleben Castle became known through the folk hero Till Eulenspiegel , who is said to have been born around 1300 and baptized in the castle chapel . The robber baron Till von Uetze is said to have been the godfather .
literature
- Hans Adolf Schultz : Castles and palaces of the Braunschweiger Land , Braunschweig 1984
- Sigrun Ahlers: Topographical and archaeological studies of prehistoric and early historical fortifications in the districts of Gifhorn, Helmstedt and Wolfenbüttel as well as in the urban district of Wolfsburg. (Dissertation), Hamburg, 1988.
- Gesine Schwarz: The knight seats of the old country of Braunschweig. Göttingen 2008, pp. 81–84.
