Harste Castle
| Harste Castle | ||
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 The last official building on the site of Harste Castle |
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| State : | Germany (DE) | |
| Location: | Harste | |
| Creation time : | 2nd half of the 13th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Office building from the 18th century | |
| Standing position : | Ducal state castle | |
| Geographical location: | 51 ° 36 ' N , 9 ° 51' E | |
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The castle Harste is an Outbound medieval country castle of the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the district Harste the community Bovenden in the district of Goettingen in Lower Saxony .
story
The castle in Harste first appears in historical records in 1294, when Duke Albrecht II of Braunschweig-Lüneburg made up with the city of Göttingen because of the destruction of Harste Castle. The castle was probably built after the middle of the 13th century, when the Guelphs expanded their position in southeast Lower Saxony against the diocese of Hildesheim . In a document from 1313, the Bursfelde Monastery is granted compensation for land losses it suffered through the construction of the castle. According to the Hildesheim bishop's chronicle written at the beginning of the 16th century, the castle was acquired for the diocese by Bishop Siegfried II of Querfurt (1279–1310) and destroyed to remove the threat it posed. By 1294, however, it had been rebuilt and was again in Guelph ownership. The renewed destruction in 1294 by the Göttingen citizens was followed by a renewed reconstruction, which was completed in 1308. The castle was also important because of its location at a customs post at the intersection of the road between Hildesheim and Göttingen with a junction from Frankfurter Strasse.
In 1354 the Duchy of Göttingen bought back pledged shares in the castle. This created the prerequisites for the castle to serve as a secondary residence for the Principality of Göttingen . Duke Ernst died here in 1367 and his sons Otto der Quade and Otto Cocles signed documents at the castle. In 1373 the castle is mentioned for the first time as the seat of a bailiff. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the castle or parts of it were often mortgaged. When Otto Cocles handed over the government of the Principality of Göttingen to his cousin Duke Wilhelm the Elder from the Guelphic Show from the Principality of Calenberg in 1437, the latter loaned him money to redeem the mortgaged houses of Moringen , Seesen and Harste. But they came as a pledge for the repayment of the sum to Duke Wilhelm. In 1466, Harste Castle was burned down in a feud between the citizens of Göttingen in association with other cities. In 1495, the castle came to the Principality of Calenberg-Göttingen in another Guelph estate . The castle lost its role as a secondary residence, but remained the official seat until 1823. In the course of the redesign of the castle into a palace-like residence by Drosten Ludolf von Bortfeld , the main building was replaced by an office building between 1568 and 1575, which is said to be behind the current house. In 1727 this office building burned down and was replaced by today's office building. At that time the moat was probably also backfilled. After 1823 it served as a state domain until 1968, when the building has been owned by a company.
description
The castle was in the western part of Harste on the site of the later domain, more precisely probably on the site of its east wing. There is no definite information about their shape. 1373 an old tower with a moat and a be in a mortgage deed Kemenate mentioned that extended to the ducal church. In 1399 a gatehouse and a keep are mentioned in an expenditure register . The office building from the middle of the 16th century is shown on an engraving by Matthäus Merian from 1654 as a two-story solid building with a half-timbered upper floor and two stair towers, which was surrounded by farm buildings. A moat fed by the Harste surrounded the office building and two other buildings.
Today's office building from 1727 is a simple, three-story stone building with a hipped roof .
literature
- Erhard Kühlhorn: Medieval fortifications. In: Historical and cultural excursion map of Lower Saxony, sheet 4: Moringen. Explanatory booklet (= publications by the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen . Series 2, Part 4). Laux, Hildesheim 1976, pp. 116-151, here pp. 131-133.
- Heinrich Lücke, castles, official seats and manors around Göttingen, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1969², pp. 188–193.
- Gudrun Pischke: The Harste Castle: A so far hardly noticed ducal residence of the late Middle Ages in the Principality of Göttingen. In: Southern Lower Saxony. Volume 41, 2013, pp. 50-55; 90-97.
- Gudrun Pischke: The gentlemen von Harste and Bonaforth. In: Southern Lower Saxony. Volume 44, 2016, pp. 2–5.
- Gudrun Pischke: The Lords of Harste, members of the knighthood of the Principality of Göttingen: genealogy, social position and aristocratic environment. In: Göttinger Jahrbuch. Volume 62, 2014, pp. 19-40.
- Klaus Grote : Early medieval findings on settlement and economic history in Harste, Göttingen district. In: New excavations and research in Lower Saxony. Volume 19, 1991, pp. 173-211.
- Karl-Heinz Bielefeld: Contributions to the history of the village Harste (Göttingen district). In: Plesse archive. Volume 12, 1977, pp. 11-243 here pp. 23-31.
- Erwin Steinmetz: The Harste Castle (The castles in the greater district of Göttingen 4). In: Göttingen monthly sheets. Volume 7, 1974, p. 10 f.