Coppenbrügge Castle
| Coppenbrügge Castle | ||
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 Castle ruins with a surrounding moat |
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| Alternative name (s): | Coppenbrügge Castle | |
| Creation time : | 1280 to 1300 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Construction: | Truss | |
| Place: | Coppenbrugge | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 7 '7.3 " N , 9 ° 32' 51.1" E | |
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The Coppenbrügge Castle , also called Coppenbrügge Castle , is the well-preserved ruin of a moated castle in the municipality of Coppenbrügge in the Hameln-Pyrmont district in Lower Saxony .
history
Between 1280 and 1300, the Counts of Spiegelberg built a water castle as the center of their county and securing the old military and trade route from Aachen to Königsberg , which led over a stick dam through a marsh area near the castle . In 1303 the castle was first mentioned in a document with its new construction. After the castle was badly damaged during the "Spiegelberg feud" in 1434 - the counts were branded as robber barons - the now impoverished Spiegelbergers inherited the county of Pyrmont in 1494 and rebuilt the castle in the style of the early Renaissance . The new seat of the Spiegelberg Counts was the Pyrmont Castle , a manager remained at the Coppenbrügge Castle.
From 1631 the castle was owned by Nassau and was already in disrepair in 1697. At that time it was the meeting point of Tsar Peter the Great on his journey with the "Grand Embassy" from Moscow to Amsterdam with the Electress Sophie of Hanover and her daughter Sophie Charlotte of Hanover .
In the 18th century the castle with the Nassau-Oranien house was renovated like a castle in the Baroque style. After the sale to the Kingdom of Hanover in 1822 , the castle was demolished and around 1870 the farm buildings followed, except for a half-timbered house (office building) at the rear of the castle courtyard. In 1945 the ruin was briefly used as a quarry. After that, the former office building was the seat of the Coppenbrügger district court and is now used as a museum.
Access to the castle
Castle building around 1700
Inner courtyard with palace building, now a museum
View from the tower to the moat
Coat of arms of the Counts of Spiegelberg from 1507 on the castle
Peterlinde
A special feature of the complex is a very old linden tree standing on the castle wall and named "Peterlinde" . The name is reminiscent of the meeting of the Russian Tsar Peter I in 1697 with the Electress and her politically important children, which was so friendly, crowned with an evening celebration that the historians speak of a "Lady Peace of Coppenbrügge". The meeting on Coppenbrügge is said to have ushered in a turning point in the development of Europe and prevented a war between Austria and Brandenburg-Prussia.
The age of a natural monument designated and in the prominent list and old tree specimens registered Sommerlinde is estimated to be 500-700 years. A picture of the tree can already be found in the Topographia Germaniae by the engraver Matthäus Merian on an engraving by Coppenbrügges from 1654. According to a description from 1718, the linden tree was built as a three-story walk-in arbor that could be entered directly from the first floor of the castle. Today the tree veteran presents itself in a wide, bizarre growth, structured by mighty strong branches. Most of the cross branches of the former arbor floors have now largely broken away. The trunk has a measured circumference of 6.64 m in 2017.
Peterlinde, trunk
Peterlinde, winter
literature
- Ernst Andreas Friedrich : The water castle of Coppenbrügge , pp. 197-199, in: If stones could talk. Volume I, Landbuch-Verlag, Hannover 1989, ISBN 3-7842-03973 .
- Margret Zimmermann, Hans Kensche: Castles and palaces in Hildesheimer Land . Hildesheim, 2001, pp. 26-27
Individual evidence
- ^ "Die Peterlinde" at www.museum-coppenbruegge.de
- ↑ “Peterlinde in Coppenbrügge” in the tree register at www.baumkunde.de
Web links
- Entry by Stefan Eismann about Castle Coppenbrügge in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Reconstruction drawing as a historical view of the castle
- Coppenbrügge Castle , burgenwelt.de
- Coppenbrügge Castle Museum