Brunsrode Castle
The castle Brunsrode was a Wasserburg in United Brunsrode in district Helmstedt in Lower Saxony . After the castle was destroyed in the 16th century, a manor house was built on the site, which is still there today after renovations in the 19th century.
description
A Merian engraving from around 1650 reflects the appearance of the castle in the 17th century . A high, massive castle tower is depicted on it, which is surrounded by several buildings arranged in a square. The manor house of the castle is a high half-timbered building with a polygonal stair tower . According to Merian's description, the complex was surrounded by a water-bearing moat .
There are no remains of the castle, which was on the site of what is now a manor. 1.3 meter thick foundation walls, which were discovered during the renovation of a residential building, point to the earlier location. A pond with a diameter of around 30 meters on the estate could be part of the former moat.
history
The noble family von Brunsrode, which was first mentioned around the year 1226 and went out around 1400, sat in Brunsrode. It never held the castle, but ran a saddle yard behind the castle.
Brunsrode Castle was a state castle of the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . Nothing is known about its construction history. A first mention, which was indirect, was made in 1328 in an agreement between Duke Otto the Mild of Braunschweig-Göttingen and his cousin Otto the Strict of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. The castle was explicitly mentioned in 1355 when Duke Wilhelm II of Braunschweig-Lüneburg pledged it to the brothers Henning and Harneid von Marenholtz . In 1372 it went to the Lords of Salder as a fief . Brunsrode was one of the castles that the Brunswick dukes and brothers Friedrich I , Heinrich I and Otto II received in 1377 as compensation for their renunciation of the Duchy of Lüneburg . In 1381 the castle, together with the castles in Glentorf and Wettmershagen, was destroyed and repaired soon afterwards, as it was already given to the Duke of Brunswick as compensation in 1386. In 1467 the von Marenholtz family received the castle as a fief. When the Lords of Veltheim received it as a fief in 1477, the castle site was already desolate. In 1525 she acquired Weddige von Adrum and his wife had the building rebuilt as a retirement home from her assets. There was a house, a dairy and stables. After the death of Weddige von Adrum's widow, who died in 1559, the property was returned to the Duke as a pledge in 1580. In 1636 it was given to Julius Freiherr von Bülow as a fief with Brunsrode for his services during the Thirty Years' War . The castle was uninhabitable at that time. The reconstruction was carried out by Julius' son as a manor house. The high mansion with a stair tower was built, which the Merian engraving from around 1650 shows. The castle site became an estate, which various members of the nobility ran until the 20th century. In 1780 the moat was filled in and the castle tower was torn down because it was in disrepair. In the 19th century the stair tower of the manor house was demolished and the building was completely redesigned twice. In 1989 the manor was sold to a farmer who sold the former manor house to a private person.
literature
- Sigrun Ahlers: Topographical-archaeological studies on prehistoric and early historical fortifications in the districts of Gifhorn, Helmstedt and Wolfenbüttel and in the urban district of Wolfsburg , (dissertation), Hamburg 1988, pp. 190–191.
- Gesine Schwarz: The Knights' Seats of the Old Country Braunschweig , Göttingen 2008, pp. 9–12.
Web links
- Entry by Sandy Bieler and Stefan Eismann on Groß Brunsrode in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Reconstruction drawing of Groß Brunsrode Castle by Wolfgang Braun
- Entry on Brunsrode Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
Individual evidence
- ^ Description of Brunsrode Castle at lehre.de
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 9.2 " N , 10 ° 40 ′ 13.5" E