Koldingen Castle
| Koldingen Castle | ||
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.jpg) Koldingen Castle, recognizable by the roof turrets, on a Merian engraving from around 1654 |
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| Creation time : | 13th or 14th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, built over | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Pattensen - Koldingen | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 16 '33.6 " N , 9 ° 47' 43.8" E | |
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The castle Koldingen is an Outbound lowland castle in Koldingen , a modern district of Pattensen in Lower Saxony .
history
The castle complex was built in the 13th or 14th century by the Counts of Hallermund to secure a line crossing and later passed to the Welfs , in 1380 into the possession of the bishops of Hildesheim . In importance it gradually replaced the older Retburg near Grasdorf and became the official and court seat. A farm yard and a mill belonged to the castle.
In the middle of the 15th century, the facility was rebuilt and expanded, especially in the area of the farm yard in the southern outer bailey. In the Hildesheim collegiate feud in 1521, it was captured again by the Guelphs and destroyed. Only the administration buildings were repaired and continued to be used.
After the office and castle in the Quedlinburg Recess had fallen to the Guelphs (Principality of Calenberg) in 1523 and to the Wolfenbütteler line in 1585, Duke Heinrich Julius had the Koldingen administrative house built in the Renaissance style in the lowlands on a Geest ridge away from the old castle square . Since then it has served as the administrative center of the Koldingen-Lauenburg office .
With the demolition of the residential building in 1666, the castle lost its importance, while the area of the higher-lying office building was expanded. The former Burgplatz, which can be seen as an oval-shaped elevation in the lowlands, was built over with single-family houses after the Second World War. Remnants of the castle complex were found in the ground during the construction work. This included foundations, pile foundations, ceramic shards and roof tiles.
literature
- Helmut Flohr: The Coldingen slot. Investigation results on a castle in the Leiniederung. Koldingen · City · Pattensen · District of Hanover , 1986
- Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, district of Hanover, Volume 13.1, edited by Hans-Herbert Möller , edited by Henner Hannig, Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-528-06207-X , p. 230.
- Margret Zimmermann, Hans Kensche: Castles and palaces in Hildesheimer Land . Hildesheim, 2001, p. 84
- Helmut Flohr: Right and left of the line. Searching for traces in the Leinemasch between Döhren and Koldingen. Laatzen-Grasdorf, 2012
Web links
- Entry by Stefan Eismann on Koldingen Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute