Landin Castle
| Landin Castle | ||
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 The Teufelsberg with the Burgstall in the air |
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| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Construction: | Timber construction | |
| Place: | Landin | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 39 '59.4 " N , 12 ° 31' 3.7" E | |
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The castle Landin is the Burgstall a hilltop castle near the municipality Kotzen belonging village Landin . The ground monument is located on the 55 meter high Teufelsberg or Rhinsberg , an ice age elevation in the Havelland district in the state of Brandenburg .
investment
In 1899, Alfred Götze examined the striking, conical Teufelsberg. In a search cut he made , a culture layer was found with early German fragments of vessels , pebbles and bones of animals. Later archaeological investigations found Slavic graves in the area and traces of Neolithic settlement.
In the Middle Ages , the castle on the Teufelsberg was the only known hilltop castle in the area. For the Havelland, instead of hilltop castles, wooden low- rise castles , for example swamp castles , were typical. The top of the Teufelsberg was leveled, the slopes terraced and below there were ditches and walls for protection. The Landiner Castle is said to have been a tower hill castle .
The archaeologists Felix Biermann and Norms Posselt also examined the ground monument in the 2010s. Their excavations on the plateau of the hill showed the picture of a heavily populated hilltop castle in the second half of the 12th century, which was built entirely of wood. Central to who was the keep . The castle should in their structural design such from the Harz similar foothills, which under the rule of Askanier stood. The castle is understood accordingly as the northern protection of the Margraviate of Brandenburg , which was under Ascanian rule at that time . The first Margrave of Brandenburg, Albrecht the Bear , went on the Wendekreuzzug with Heinrich the Lion against the Obotrites and Lutices, who settled north .
Landin Castle is listed under number 50155 as "Burgwall German Middle Ages, Neolithic settlement, Grave field Slavic Middle Ages, cult site Slavic Middle Ages" as a ground monument .
See also
literature
- Felix Biermann, Norms Posselt: Cult place, castle wall, motte? The "Teufelsberg" near Landin (Havelland) in the Middle Ages. In: T. Nowakiewicz et al. (Ed.), Animos labor nutrit. Festschrift Andrzej Buko , Warsaw, 2018, pp. 311–320. ( Online )
Individual evidence
- ^ Sebastian children, Haik Thomas Porada (ed.): The Havelland around Rathenow and Premnitz . A regional study. Landscapes in Germany Values of the German Homeland , Volume 74. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-22297-0 , pp. 240–241.
- ↑ Brandenburg's lost castles . Published by rbb television in rbb knowledge . Accessed June 8, 2018.
- ↑ No place of worship on the Teufelsberg . Published on September 13, 2016 in BRAWO and Märkische Onlinezeitung . Accessed June 8, 2018.
- ↑ List of monuments of the State of Brandenburg: District Havelland (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum