Dog Air Castle
| Dog Air Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Hunneloff | |
| Creation time : | around 1280 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, location | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Standing position : | Nobles, princes | |
| Place: | Dog air | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 57 '57.3 " N , 12 ° 20' 42.3" E | |
| Height: | 92 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Hundeluft dialect also Hunneloff called, also called manor Hundeluft, the ruins of a moated castle in Hundeluft , a district of the town Coswig in Wittenberg district in Saxony-Anhalt . The remains of the castle are registered under registration number 428300990 in the local soil monument register as soil monument and in the local cultural monument register under registration number 094 41325 as architectural monument.
history
The castle was first mentioned in documents in 1280, when it was conquered by Margrave Johann II of Brandenburg and Otto von Brandenburg during a dispute with Archbishop Günter of Magdeburg . In 1307 it was first mentioned as a village with a manor owned by the Diseke family . In 1405 the castle and the village came into the possession of Johann von Quitzow as a pledge for a promised wage. Johann von Quitzow, a feared robber baron , had come to the aid of Prince Albrecht von Zerbst in conquering Dessau Castle . However, he could not pay the promised wages and pledged the castle and the village. Johann von Quitzow installed the brothers Cuno and Godemar Walwitz as captains of the castle. This made the castle the starting point for pillage and pillage tours in the border area between the Mark Brandenburg and the Electorate of Saxony . On February 8, 1414, the Hundeluft Castle was captured by Prince Albrecht von Zerbst after a brief siege of one day and one night. The robber barons Cuno and Godemar Walwitz fled to Dessau . The castle and village of Hundeluft remained in the possession of Prince Albrecht and were destroyed during the Thirty Years War .
After the last lord of the von Zerbst family had sold the castle and village of Hundeluft to the Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst in 1735, the castle was no longer used for residential purposes. The building was demolished in the second half of the 18th century. The material was used for buildings in the village and on the estate.
Only individual stones and a boulder wall up to 2 m high have survived from the former castle complex . Events are taking place at the castle site today.
The castle was built to secure an old trade route and a crossing over the southern Rossel . The castle grounds were redesigned like a park at the beginning of the 19th century and became overgrown in the 20th century.
description
The castle was a complex surrounded by swamp and water with a fore and main castle, which was about one and a half meters above the swampy surrounding area. The core castle was roughly pentagonal on an area of approx. 800 m², the original access to which was in the northwest and was protected by an inner and outer moat . Three residential and farm buildings were leaned against the shield wall. The round castle tower in the northwest of the complex had an outer diameter of 5 m and was not integrated into the outer wall. There was a chapel on the site of the complex, but no traces have been preserved. In the outer bailey there was an elongated half-timbered building, which is now also a listed building as the old castle . The water supply was ensured by 2 wells that were located in the southern part of the facility. The area of the entire facility extended over approx. 12,000 m².
location
It is located at about 92 m above sea level at the southeast exit of the town at Roßlauer Straße 1.
literature
- Bruno J. Sobotka (Ed.): Castles, palaces, manor houses in Saxony-Anhalt. Theiss, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-8062-1101-9 .
- Bednarz, Ute / Cremer, Folkhard (arrangement): Saxony-Anhalt I: Magdeburg district. Georg Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments, Munich 2002
- Prasse, Matthias: Arcadia on the Elbe River - Palaces and Gardens between Wittenberg and Dessau 2010
Individual proof
- ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture February 25, 2016 Printed matter 6/4829 (KA 6/9061) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt . (PDF) State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt, accessed on October 29, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Small 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 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Hans and Doris Maresch: Saxony-Anhalt's palaces, castles and mansions . Husum, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89876-776-7 , pp. 111-112 .
- ↑ a b c Wasserburg Hundeluft. alleburgen.de, accessed on October 29, 2019 .
- ↑ a b 600 years of battle for Hundeluft Castle. City of Coswig (Anhalt), accessed on October 29, 2019 .