Hodenhagen Castle
| Hodenhagen Castle | ||
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 Location of the former castle complex in a wood on the Meiße |
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| Creation time : | around 1200 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Hodenhagen | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 45 '17.5 " N , 9 ° 37' 7.1" E | |
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The hodenhagen castle is the Burgstall a passed in the 13th century lowland castle near Hodenhagen in Heidekreis in Lower Saxony . The medieval aristocratic seat existed for just under 100 years and was destroyed in 1289.
location
The castle was in an uninhabited area at the important river crossing of the old post route over the Meiße . Today the castle site is a few meters from the entrance to the Serengeti Park . Half of the former castle site is in a small wood and half in arable land.
description
The earlier appearance of the castle complex is handed down from a sketch that Wilhelm von Hodenberg made in the middle of the 19th century . During this time, the last remains in the form of earth walls, moats and stone remains were leveled and removed. According to the drawing, the castle consisted of an oval ring wall of 109 × 95 m in diameter, which directly adjoined the Meiße. The wall used to be surrounded by a moat that was fed by the river. At the time the sketch was made, a farm road cut through the inner wall. At that time, the foundations of a round keep with a diameter of 10 m and 2.5 m thick outer walls were found in it. Other remains of the wall were found elsewhere in the interior.
Wilhelm von Hodenberg suspected a farm with a smithy near the castle site, as he had found pieces of iron and cinder residue. In addition, there is said to have been a castle mill on the Meiße and a castle chapel that has been handed down historically, the locations of which could not be located.
A memorial stone erected by the von Hodenberg family in 1856, which is located at the former castle site in the small wood, commemorates the castle.
history
The castle belonged to the nobles of Hodenberg , who were an important noble family in the region. After they had been ousted by the Count von Hoya around 1200 from their ancestral seat in Hodenberg Castle in Altenbücken , they built Hodenhagen Castle around 30 km further east on the Meiße . It is believed that it was built around 1200; the castle was first mentioned in documents in 1244.
Due to the seat at Hodenhagen Castle, the domain of the noble von Hodenberg family lay geographically and in terms of interests between the Counts of Hoya and the Welfs pushing westward . The Guelph Duke Otto the Strict had Hodenhagen Castle destroyed by razing in 1289 . In a document dated August 27, 1289 he had received it from Heinrich von Hodenberg. In this way, the Hodenbergs became dependent on the duke and lost their regional dominance, they became vassals of the Guelphs. It is believed that the destruction of the castle also served to contain the then widespread robber baronism by the lower nobility.
After the destruction of Hodenhagen Castle, the aristocratic family moved their headquarters further west to what is now the Hodenhagen district of Hudemühlen. A courtyard with fortified elements was built there, which laid the origins of the town of Hodenhagen, which was built around 1400. It was not until 1448 that the von Hodenberg farm was named a castle in documents. The building was redesigned in the 16th century to form the magnificent renaissance castle Hudemühlen, which was demolished in the 19th century.
Similar fortifications in the vicinity
In the vicinity there were a number of other medieval castles, some of a similar design, in the lowland of the Aller . These include fortifications in Bierde ( Bierde Castle ), Ahlden (Aller) ( Bunkenburg ), Essel ( Uhlenburg ) ( Blankenburg Castle ), Rethem (Aller) ( Rethem Castle ), Grethem ( Blankenhagen Castle ).
Hodenhagen Castle is one of the former castles that were examined in more detail in the Burgenlandschaft Aller-Leine-Tal (BALT) project between 2003 and 2005. The project was supported, among other things, by the European LEADER + funding program , as the castle complex is located in the Aller-Leine-Tal region. However, only an archaeological flight prospecting was carried out at Hodenhagen Castle ; excavations have not yet taken place.
literature
- Castles in the river , publisher: Landkreis Soltau-Fallingbostel, Bad Fallingbostel 2005, ISBN 3-00-017281-5
Web links
- Entry by Stefan Eismann about Hodenhagen Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Reconstruction drawing