Hinta Castle
Hinta Castle | ||
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Hinta Castle |
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Alternative name (s): | Osterburg | |
Creation time : | Beginnings around 1300, preserved from around 1500 | |
Castle type : | Wasserburg, location | |
Conservation status: | Receive | |
Standing position : | former chief's seat | |
Construction: | Brick | |
Place: | Back | |
Geographical location | 53 ° 24 '56 " N , 7 ° 11' 41" E | |
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The Castle Hinta is a moated castle , which in the center of the core location of the East Frisian municipality of Hinte in the district of Aurich in Lower Saxony is located.
history
In the 14th century there were two chief castles in Hinte , the Westerburg and the Osterburg - the later Hinta Castle. The Westerburg was destroyed by the Hanseatic League in 1443 . This came in response to the support of piracy by East Frisian chiefs and cities.
During the Emden Revolution , Emden troops occupied the castle in 1602. Count's troops then forcibly recaptured the castle. Apart from that, the Osterburg was spared from destruction.
After the death of the last Allen, the castle inherited from his niece Etta von Oldersum (1527), who was married to Omko Freiherr von Ripperda zu Farmsum , a grandson of the couple Unico Freiherr von Ripperda zu Farmsum and Ulske Ukena . Omko was followed by his son Frederik (d. 1554) and finally by the grandson Unico Freiherr von Ripperda (1553–1564), who is commemorated by an artistic Renaissance monument in the rear church. The von Frese family has owned the castle since 1567 and can therefore only be viewed from the outside.
Building
The Osterburg was built by the provost chiefs from the end of the 13th century, initially as a classic Gothic building. The oldest surviving part is the so-called high house in the west wing, built by the chiefs Aild Allena († 1482) and Frederik Allena († 1527). It is a single-storey stone house with a stepped gable preserved on the south side. Stylistically, it lies on the border between the fading Gothic and the beginning of the Renaissance . The divided openings in the triangle of the stepped gable, each with two segmental arches on top of each other, still indicate the Gothic preference for vertical shapes, and the hall windows below were once very narrow and high.
The gate opening to the graft at the base of the north gable, however, already has a Renaissance arch, which is optically weighted down by a keystone. During the baroque period the castle gate was added in 1704. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the castle, surrounded by a wide moat, was rebuilt to its present form. Since then it has been a four-wing complex with a large inner courtyard.
North of the castle on a terp is the rear church from the 14th century.
literature
- Ernst Andreas Friedrich : The water castle Hinte , pp. 93–94, in: If stones could talk . Volume IV, Landbuch-Verlag, Hannover 1998, ISBN 3-7842-0558-5
Web links
- Entry by Frank Both zu Osterburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Hinta Castle