Hadmersleben Castle
| Hadmersleben Castle | ||
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 Gate tower of the outer bailey |
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| Creation time : | 10th century | |
| Castle type : | Location, bank edge castle | |
| Conservation status: | Gate tower, residential building | |
| Place: | Oschersleben - City of Hadmersleben | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 59 '30.6 " N , 11 ° 18' 14.3" E | |
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The castle Hadmersleben even lock Hadmersleben or office Hademersleben called, is a Grade II listed building in the city Hadmersleben , a district of Oschersleben in the district Borde in Saxony-Anhalt . In the local register of monuments , the castle is listed as a monument under registration number 094 95231 .
history
A semicircular to protect the river crossing over the old Bode , today brewing pit , is attested to as early as the 10th century. It consisted of an outer and a core castle . The castle was used by the Counts of Hadmersleben as a robbery and refuge castle until it was conquered by the Archbishop of Magdeburg, Dietrich von Magdeburg, in 1367 . After the conquest, the town of Hadmersleben and the castle became fiefdoms of the Magdeburg archbishops . In 1489 the town and castle were pledged by Archbishop Ernst von Sachsen to his court master Christoph von Hagen . In the 16th century it was made fort-like expansion of nuclear castle on the remains of the previous tower, in most was additionally protected with an inner moat. Today (as of 2015) the facility is used by a farm.
description
All of the buildings belonging to the castle complex were grouped around a spacious courtyard.
Next to the front building of the house, which was built in 1904, there is a late-Gothic relief plate showing a knight wearing a flag lance and a double-headed eagle. On a large barn west of the house there is a coat of arms frieze of the Magdeburg Archbishops from 1586. In the southern part of the complex along the wall there are residential and farm buildings from the 16th century. In the south-western outer wall, parts of the segmental arch frieze over which the former battlement was located have been preserved.
A gate tower in the outer bailey , built around 1500, as well as a two-storey late Gothic house in the main castle , built in 1509, and parts of the moat system and wall have been preserved from the castle complex.
Today there is a siren on the gate tower to alert the local volunteer fire department .
chapel
The St. Stephani Church , built from 1745 to 1747, was probably on the site of the former chapel built on the south side of the castle.
location
To the west of the castle complex is the Hadmersleben Monastery , which is also a listed building . To the north of the castle is the Church of Our Lady and the current course of the Bode .
literature
- Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer (arrangement): Georg Dehio - Handbook of German art monuments. Saxony-Anhalt I: Magdeburg district. Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 .
- Bruno J. Sobotka (Ed.): Castles, palaces, manor houses in Saxony-Anhalt. Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-8062-1101-9 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt . (PDF) State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, accessed on October 20, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Hans and Doris Maresch: Saxony-Anhalt's palaces, castles and mansions . Husum, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89876-776-7 , pp. 98-99 .
- ↑ a b c Hadmersleben Castle. alleburgen.de, accessed on October 20, 2019 .