Krummesse Castle
| Krummesse Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | Medieval | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Lübeck - Krummesse | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 46 '49.1 " N , 10 ° 38' 5.6" E | |
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The castle Krummesse is located in Luebeck district of Lauenburg village Krummesse and is the only medieval motte (Motte) in today's city of Hamburg.
description
The former Krummesse Castle is a registered cultural monument and is located west of the Elbe-Lübeck Canal , halfway between the courtyards of the modern Lübeck township Krummesse and the canal bridge. In the Middle Ages, the road from Lübeck via Trittau to Hamburg crossed with the Stecknitz Canal at a strategically important point outside the Lübeck Landwehr . The castle hill with a diameter of approx. 80 m has been preserved to this day, even if it was damaged, and is still clearly visible behind a single-family house development. It is surrounded by ditches and silted up shallow waters. Krummesse Castle was the seat of the Knights of Krummesse , who belonged to the most influential knightly families of the Middle Ages in the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg and who probably came from the Verden area to Lauenburg after 1200 . As a medieval aristocratic seat, the castle is compared with the Müggenburg near Salem , the seat of the Lauenburg knights of Hasenkop . The moated castle was destroyed in the Thirty Years War and replaced by the early modern manor to the west of it. The keep is said to have been present in the remains of the wall in the 19th century.
The Knights of Krummesse
The Knights of Krummesse, who temporarily held the office of cupbearers to the Dukes of Saxony-Lauenburg, have been handed down by numerous documents from the Middle Ages, for example as witnesses to the land peace treaty of 1281 and as representatives of the Duke of Saxony-Lauenburg in the 1308 imperial election in Worms . According to its personal political importance and the geographical location of the castle, the castle complex belonged to the larger North Elbe castle complexes of the Middle Ages and the associated agricultural property consisted of considerable scattered areas in Lauenburg, temporarily from the other estates and villages of Stochelsdorp and Niemark (1237) and after 1300 as well Kastorf, the Beidendorfer See , Kronsforde, Bliestorf, Grinau, Schenkenberg, Schretstaken and Petzeke near Mölln.
From 1366 the family, probably weakened by inheritance divisions, lost political and economic influence and increasingly gave land to the Hanseatic city of Lübeck and its patrician families Crispin , Darsow and later the von Wickede , who in this way handed over rule against the bitter resistance of the duke Obtained Krummesse for Lübeck. This was only permanently recognized in 1747 in the course of the comparison of the Möllner Pertinenzien between Lübeck and Kurhannover.
literature
- H. Hofmeister: The fortifications of northern Albingia , volume 1, Lübeck 1917
- Peter von Kobbe: History and description of the country of the Duchy of Lauenburg. Altona 1837, pp. 152–167 The Möllner trial. Digitized. ISBN 3-7777-0074-6
- Die Krummesser Landstraße , issue 5/6 of the Lübeck Heimathefte , published by Charles Coleman in Lübeck, 1927, p. 57 ff.
- Werner Neugebauer: Medieval and younger fortifications in the area of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck in: 25 years of archeology in Lübeck , Lübeck writings on archeology and cultural history, Volume 17, Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 1988, pp. 187-190, ISBN 3-7749-2376-0
Web links
- Krummesse Castle. Lübeck.de, archived from the original on September 10, 2013 ; Retrieved June 25, 2017 .
- Good Krummesse, PDF approx. 2.3MB
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to Lübecker Heimathefte , Heft 5/6, p. 58.