Kutin Castle
| Kutin Castle | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Quetzin Castle | |
| Creation time : | around 1000 | |
| Castle type : | (Slavic) island castle | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Plau am See, OT Quetzin | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 29 '17 " N , 12 ° 17' 6" E | |
| Height: | 60 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Kutin or castle Quetzin is an Outbound late Slavic island castle on the island of coal in Plau in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . It is considered to be a Slavic main castle (Gauburg) belonging to the Warnower tribe . The dendrochronological evidence of traces of settlement on the island goes back to the late 10th century. In German sources it is mentioned for the first time in the 12th century as "Castrum Cutsin".
Most of the facility is now under water, as the water level is almost two meters higher than it was in the Slav period. The increase is due to the immigration of German settlers to Mecklenburg in the 12th century, who built water mills in nearby Plau an der Elde and thus significantly increased the water level of the Plauer See. The island owes its name to the cultivation of cabbage in the 19th century within the ramparts. From 2000 to 2003, three-year interdisciplinary investigations were carried out at the castle site on the island, which were carried out , among other things, through excavations , with the magnometer , the sediment sonar and by means of drilling. They resulted in a sequence of different construction phases from 1024 onwards. The wall consisted of wooden boxes filled with earth. The wall burned down and was renewed again in 1132. The recovered finds include coins from around 1080, glass beads and ceramic remains as well as bones.
After Niklot's death in 1160, Heinrich the Lion undertook a constitutional reorganization of Mecklenburg by excluding Niklot's sons from rule and entrusting Saxon ministerials with the administration. In this context he occupied the castle complex with a Saxon occupation. In the struggle for his inheritance in the spring of 1164, Pribislaw moved in front of the castle in Quetzin and demanded that it be surrendered. The castle garrison surrendered and withdrew in safety. The land of Kuissin came to Nikolaus I (Mecklenburg) as a fiefdom in 1167 . After the first division of Mecklenburg in 1234, it fell to the Parchim-Richenberg rule and later came into the possession of the Lords of Werle .
Quetzin, which was rather hidden, increasingly lost its importance after the establishment of the Plau settlement, which was far more convenient for trade after 1225.
literature
- Ralf Bleile: Quetzin - A late Slavic castle on the Kohlinsel in the Plauer See. Findings and finds on the problem of Slavic island uses in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Volume 48), Schwerin 2008, ISBN 978-3-935770-21-7
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fred Ruchhöft : The water level of the "Upper Lakes" in Mecklenburg in historical time , in: Nachrichtenblatt Arbeitskreis Unterwasserarchäologie, Volume 5 (1999), pp. 36-39
- ↑ http://slawenburgen.npage.de/mecklenburg-vorpommern/mecklenburg-vorpommern-nz.html
- ↑ Research on the Kohlinsel in Plauer Zeitung from February 15, 2006 (pdf)
- ^ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch: The land of Kutsin or Kutin . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . - Vol. 10 (1845), pp. 36–41, digitized on mvdok.lbmv.de