Arpshagen Castle
| Arpshagen Castle | ||
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 Arpshagen Castle Island |
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| Alternative name (s): | Plessenburg | |
| Creation time : | around 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, castle island, moat | |
| Place: | Klütz | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 57 '45.4 " N , 11 ° 9' 3" E | |
| Height: | 6 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Arpshagen is an Outbound castle with estate in the west of Klütz in northern nordwestmecklenburg in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany). Today only a small castle island with a partially filled, water-bearing moat is preserved.
history
Under the name Erpushagen , the place was mentioned as early as 1230 in the Ratzeburg tithe register . The bishop of the Ratzeburg diocese was entitled to a third of the tithe for Erpushagen . The place was in the land of Klütz ( terra clutse ), where the lords of Mecklenburg had secular power and thus also the feudal sovereignty . Around 1200 Arpshagen was probably founded by a settler named Erpus on a clearing of the forest. At the time of inclusion in the tithe register there was probably already a low castle , consisting of a main castle consisting of a defense tower with massive basement floors of the moth type . She stood on an island, surrounded by walls and moats. The semicircular outer bailey was protected in the same way, remnants of it can still be seen. Heinrich von Plessen (1318–1337), knight and princely regency councilor, was the first feudal man at the beginning of the 14th century . Around 1596 the three-storey, massive medieval tower still stood on the island protected by the moat. It had a footprint of about 11 m × 9 m. A tower of about the same height ( Arckener ) with an area of about 5.4 m × 4.7 m was attached . Both buildings had a stone roof and had a basement. Next to it was a two-story half-timbered house with a chimney and stone roof. Another single-storey half-timbered building housed the milk room . All the buildings were said to be old but relatively well preserved. The way to the outer bailey led through a gatehouse . A thatched half-timbered farmhouse with stables, a barn, a brewery and a cow, horse and cattle barn were found there. The farm yard was surrounded by a hedge of thorns ( Hakelwerk ).
In the first half of the 17th century a two-storey permanent house with large windows and a Renaissance portal was built.
In 1723, the history of the Lords of Plessen at Arpshagen ended with the sale of the property by Jakob Levin von Plessen (1666–1724) to Friedrich Johann Freiherr von Bothmer, who acted on behalf of his brother Hans Caspar von Bothmer .
At the end of the 19th century, a new house was built for the tenant about 200 m northwest of the castle island, which is still standing today ⊙ . After 1900 the fortress house and the outer bailey were demolished.
In the course of the land reform in 1945, the property was expropriated and relocated ; it no longer exists today. In 1991 the silted-up moat was partially restored and, together with the small castle island, included in the list of soil monuments of the district of Northwest Mecklenburg.
source
- Information boards on the castle island