Itzehoe Castle
| Itzehoe Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Echeho Castle, Etzeho (castrum Etzeho) | |
| Creation time : | around 1000 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, small remains | |
| Place: | Itzehoe | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 55 '16.4 " N , 9 ° 30' 54.9" E | |
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The castle Itzehoe is an Outbound in the decades around 1000 built rampart castle in the former interference loop in Itzehoe . Contrary to what was assumed until the second half of the 20th century, it is not identical to Esesfeld Castle .
Itzehoe Castle was built under the Billunger dukes as a base of operations to secure the Duchy of Saxony (and thus also the empire ) against the Danes. The choice of location is explained by the fact that several military routes , including the trade route later known as Lübsche Trade and the Ochsenweg , converged and the Stör could also be used as a transport route and at the same time as a natural barrier.
The peninsula located in the Störschleife was made into an island by a puncture in the south, in whose northern part the castle was built. A ring of earth with a height of 7 m and a diameter of 100 m was built around the castle; Finally, on the top of the wall there was presumably a palisade construction . A bailey was built south of the wall . To the south of the outer bailey, roughly in the middle of the island, a moat was finally dug . The castle "Echeho" took an outstanding position among the northern Albingian ring wall castles due to its river location and its fortification strength. Only the " New Castle ", which was built in a loop of the Alster in Hamburg between 1024 and 1025, is comparable with it and was presumably built according to its model.
In 1032, Itzehoe Castle was besieged by Abodrites ; they could finally be defeated by the joining Duke Bernhard II . When the castle was besieged by Danes in 1227, the attackers were defeated with the help of Count Adolf IV from Schauenburg . Shortly afterwards, the Danes were finally defeated in the Battle of Bornhöved .
Today the Störschleife has been filled in and the castle area has been built over. On the castle hill is the paved street called "Burg", which forms an inner courtyard surrounded by houses. The “Wallstraße”, which follows the course of the former Störschleife, also reminds of the castle complex.
Information board
Itzehoe 1588
Inner courtyard of the former castle
Inner courtyard of the former castle
Sources and literature
- Helmut Willert, in: Stadt Itzehoe (Ed.): Itzehoe. History of a town in Schleswig-Holstein , vol. 1: From early history to 1814 , pp. 9 to 14.
- Henning Hellmuth Andersen: The castle in Itzehoe. Excavations and finds , Neumünster 1980. ISBN 3-529-01654-3 .