Esbeck Castle (Schöningen)

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Esbeck Castle, main building

The castle Esbeck was a castle in Esbeck in district Helmstedt whose former form to the buildings of today's manor is recognizable.

The castle was in the north-west of the village on a slight hill. The castle site is now a round plateau about 80 meters in diameter, on which there are farm buildings arranged in a semicircle in the north and west. To the east is a two-wing main building that dates from the 18th century. The entire facility is surrounded by a moat up to 14 meters wide .

Esbeck Castle was first mentioned in a document in 1263, when the Bishop of Halberstadt lent the castle that Ludolf von Esbeck had acquired to Margrave Johann von Brandenburg . In 1322 the castle belonged to Duke Otto the Mild . In the years from 1346 to 1368, according to the feudal book of the Brunswick dukes, numerous other pledges of the castle were made by Duke Magnus I. Günzel von Bartensleben as well as the brothers Paridam and Iwan von dem Knesebeck and von der Asseburg were among the pledges. In 1371 Duke Magnus I granted the city of Braunschweig the right to demolish Esbeck Castle. However, it remained and was pledged to nobles. The appearance of the current facility was created through renovations in the 16th century. After a fire in the manor house in 1689, it was rebuilt down to the base of the ground floor. The east facing side was created with a central projection and flat gable. After another fire in 1869, the residential buildings were renewed and the east wing was given a new staircase facing the courtyard.

literature

  • Sigrun Ahlers: Topographical-archaeological studies of prehistoric and early historical fortifications in the districts of Gifhorn, Helmstedt and Wolfenbüttel and in the urban district of Wolfsburg , (dissertation), Hamburg 1988
  • Gesine Schwarz: The knight seats of the old country of Braunschweig. Göttingen 2008, pp. 51–56.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 40.4 ″  N , 10 ° 57 ′ 32.6 ″  E