Ekberg Castle

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Ekberg Castle
Alternative name (s): Festivities Ekbergk
Castle Ekberg
Creation time : around 1250 to 1300
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Sundhagen - Segebadenhau
Geographical location 54 ° 8 '56.8 "  N , 13 ° 13' 34.5"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 8 '56.8 "  N , 13 ° 13' 34.5"  E
Ekberg Castle (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Ekberg Castle
Tower hill of Ekberg Castle

The castle Ekberg , as festivals Ekbergk or Castle Ekberg called, is a former castle in Segebadenhau , a district of Sundhagen , in the Vorpommern-Rügen . It was a seat of the Lords of Gristow and the sovereign castle of the Princes of Rügen .

location

Ekberg Castle was located on a tower hill on the Rienegraben near Segebadenhau, which is now known as the Schloßberg .

history

The builders of the castle Ekberg, the Lords of Gristow came from Barnuta , the eldest son of Prince complaints Jaromar I from. The exact time of the construction, probably in the second half of the 13th century , of the important sovereign fortification of its time is not known.

During the First War of the Rügen Succession , the Mecklenburg troops of Prince Heinrich II, with whom Johann von Gristow had allied, undertook a campaign against the city of Greifswald from Grimmen and Ekberg Castle. The Mecklenburgers were beaten at Griebenow. The troops of the Greifswalds and the cities allied with them and recruited knights then tried twice unsuccessfully to conquer Ekberg Castle.

It was not until 1331, during a renewed feud between the city of Greifswald and Johann von Gristow, that a Greifswald contingent succeeded in taking the castle and completely destroying it. In the document from 1331 in the Greifswald city archive, however, a court settlement between the parties was established, according to which Greifswald had to pay Johann von Gristow 400 marks as compensation.

In the further course of the 14th century the Greifswalders acquired extensive land north of the Ryck from the Gristower gentlemen, who had got into financial difficulties , so that the Gristowers could not rebuild the castle.

investment

Ekberg was, according to its location, a low castle that was built as a tower hill castle. It is a two-part tower hill castle complex. The archaeological finds show the usual early German (1230 to 1400) blue-gray ceramics, remnants of bricks and pieces of bone. The building materials that could still be used after the destruction in 1331 were removed in the following centuries. Today the complex is registered as an important ground monument.

literature

  • Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen. IV. Theil, Volume I, Greifswald district (general) - especially “City of Greifswald and the royal. University there ”, Anklam / Berlin 1866, p. 581.
  • Horst-Diether Schroeder: The First War of the Rügen Succession - Causes, Course and Results. In: Haik Thomas Porada (ed.): Contributions to the history of Western Pomerania. The Demminer Colloquia 1985–1994. Thomas Helms, Schwerin 1997, ISBN 3-931185-11-7 , pp. 129-140.
  • Gunnar Möller: History and settlement of the Terra Gristow from the 7th to the 14th century. In: Haik Thomas Porada (ed.): Contributions to the history of Western Pomerania. The Demminer Colloquia 1985–1994. Thomas Helms, Schwerin 1997, ISBN 3-931185-11-7 , pp. 315–321.
  • Gunnar Möller: Das Castrum Ekbergh in Segebadenhau, Nordvorpommern district, in: Archaeological reports from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 1, 1994, p. 67 ff.

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