Brunstein Castle
| Brunstein Castle | ||
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.jpg) Engraving by Matthäus Merian , 1654/1658 |
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| Creation time : | around 836 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Langenholtensen | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 43 '33 " N , 10 ° 2' 20" E | |
| Height: | 225 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Brunstein is an Outbound hilltop castle at Langenholtensen in the district of Northeim in Lower Saxony .
location
Brunstein stood on a hill called Burgberg 225 m above sea level. NN high hill just under a kilometer east of the village of Langenholtensen. The Leimkebach , which later flows into the dune, flows west below the castle hill .
history
Origin of name
In the chronicle "Antiqvitates Blanckenburgens" written by Johann Georg Leuckfeld in the 18th century , the year 836 is mentioned as the year of construction of the church in Langenholtensen and Brunstein Castle by the Saxon Duke Bruno . Franciscus Lubecus , on the other hand, mentions in his Göttingen annals as early as the 16th century that Liudolf , the founder of Gandersheim Abbey , also built Brunstein Castle and named it after his father Brun. However, no documents have been preserved for this.
Buildings and use
The approximately 50 by 50 meter large castle stood on the spur of the castle hill sloping on three sides. It is said to have been built "according to Rethmeier's assurance in his Braunschweig-Lüneburg'schen Chronik [...] the hospital for pilgrims and later the Wibbrechtshausen monastery for protection" . As a legacy of the Brunones , the castle came to the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg via Richenza from Northeim . Duke Otto der Quade pledged it to the Lords of Oberg in 1368 . Of these, the lien was transferred to Heinecke von Münchhausen . In 1526 Duke Erich I had to pledge the castle again to finance the costs he had incurred as a result of the Hildesheim collegiate feud and the construction of the Erichsburg , this time to the House of Oldershausen , which it held until 1583.
Duke Julius pledged the castle to Otto von Rehden in 1588 . From 1617 to 1622 it came to his son Henning von Rehden. He used the tipper and rocker time for criminal financial transactions and finally had to flee to the Spanish Netherlands . But since his wife stayed in the castle and also had a farm belonging to the Northeim Monastery run , the residents of the village of Langenholtensen had to continue paying taxes for it.
In 1627 and 1637 some buildings were damaged by the effects of the Thirty Years War and demolished in 1694. In the following year, new official buildings were erected with the stones at the foot of the castle hill. The remaining buildings on the castle hill were demolished in 1764. The castle barn, which still exists today, was built from the stones of the castle not far from the castle site.
Since the castle site, marked by the planting of linden trees , was threatened by a quarry of the state forest administration started in 1925 and bordering to the east, the Hildesheim administrative district recommended in 1927 that it should no longer be operated in order to preserve the site.
Office Brunstein
Brunstein Castle was the first seat of the office of the same name . The new office building was used from 1695.
Bailiffs
- Hildemar von Oberg 1368
- Dietrich von Bodensen 1488
- Heinecke von Münchhausen 1526
- Hermann (Hermen) von Oldershausen 1526 - before 1537 (called blessed)
- Hans the Elder of Oldershausen around 1537
- Hans the Younger of Oldershausen until 1583
- Statius von Wulffen until 1586
- Peter Plessing 1588
- Otto von Rheden 1588 - 1617
- Henning von Rheden, son of Otto von Rheden 1617–22
- Anna von Rheden, b. von Schulenburg, widow of Otto von Rheden 1622–30 (1634?)
- Henrich Fischer 1631–37
- Burchardt Engelbrecht 1638–50
- Henning von Lützen (Lützow) 1651–58
- Johannes Vogt 1659-61
- Henrich Albrecht Burchtorf 1662
- Christian Friedrich Tappen 1663–66
- Friedrich Ernst Hundertmark 1667–86
- Ernst Andreas Cnorr (e) 1689–1704
- by Behling 1709
- Friedrich Rudolf von Uslar 1721–28
- August Conrad Volckmar 1729–35
- by Bülow 1756
- Jacobi 1764
- Storre 1769
- Johann Ferdinand von Uslar 1766
- Conrad Heinrich von Hugo 1768–1796 death on Brunstein (previously Reichshofrat in Vienna from 1745 to 1768)
- Heinrich Friedrich Meyer 1799–1820
- Georg Friedrich Grimsehl 1824–1840
On July 1, 1840, the Brunstein Office was merged with the Northeim Office .
scope
In addition to the village of Langenholtensen, the office included the 6 villages of Denkershausen , Edesheim , Elvershausen , Hohnstedt and Vogelbeck as well as 2 hamlets, farms and an independent farm. In the 19th century, 3018 inhabitants and 388 houses belonged to the Brunstein office. The cultivation of flax , which was pursued alongside the cultivation of tobacco, was economically important . Sheep and cattle were also rearing and linen , thread and wood were traded , which was floated down on a line .
The official area, belonging to the Principality of Göttingen , bordered the Duchy of Braunschweig in the north, the Westerhof Office in the east, the Principality of Grubenhagen in the south and the Moringen Office and the area of the city of Northeim in the west . In 1840 the Brunstein Office was integrated into the new Northeim Office .
In the local coat of arms of Langenholtensen, a legal staff is depicted, which is intended to indicate the jurisdiction of the former Brunstein office.
Brunstein settlement
The sovereign domain that emerged from the Amtshof was split up into several parts after the Second World War in the 1950s and sold to private farmers, including those who were displaced from their homes. The settlement was built around the new office building and the domain and had the following population development:
- 1689: 62
- 1818: 69
- 2010: 86.
Web links
- Entry by Stefan Eismann on Brunstein Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Individual evidence
- ^ Franziskus Lubecus: Göttinger Annalen: from the beginning to the year 1588 . 1994 ( full text in Google book search).
- ^ Heinrich Böttger: The Brunones, ancestors and descendants of Duke Ludolf in Saxony . 1865 ( full text in the Google book search).
- ↑ Kaspar Friedrich Gottschalck: The knight castles and mountain castles of Germany, Volume 4, 1818, p. 125
- ↑ Hannoversche Chronik, on behalf of the Association for the History of the City of Hanover, 1907, p. 355
- ^ Karl Sandfuchs: Burg und Amt Brunstein, in: Northeimer Heimatblätter, 1975, p. 10ff
- ^ Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel : Latest news from the Kingdom of Hanover, the Duchy of Braunschweig and the Duchy of Oldenburg . Landes-Industrie-Comptoir, Weimar 1819, p. 223 .
- ^ Christian Hermann Ebhardt: Laws, ordinances and tenders for the Kingdom of Hanover from the period from 1813 to 1839, Volume 4, 1840, p. 680
- ^ Karl Sandfuchs: Burg und Amt Brunstein, in: Northeimer Heimatblätter, 1975, p. 10ff