Langeleben Castle
| Langeleben Castle | ||
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 Ruin of the moated castle Langeleben with moat and outer wall |
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| Creation time : | 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niderungburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Live long | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 12 '34.2 " N , 10 ° 49' 4.3" E | |
| Height: | 260 m above sea level NHN | |
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The castle ruin Langeleben was a small moated castle in the historic village of Langeleben in the Elm ridge in Lower Saxony . Today's castle ruins only consist of the gable end of a building. The entire complex is still clearly recognizable through the preserved moat with pond and outer wall.
description
The remains of the castle are located at 260 m above sea level. NHN in the northern part of the Elm. Near springs from a source House of Schierpkebach that feeds the moat of the castle. It is extended to a castle pond on one side. The almost square castle site has a diameter of about 40 meters.
Of the castle, which was destroyed in 1626, only the western gable end of a 12 meter high and almost 10 meter wide stone building consists of 1.5 m thick masonry. This was followed by a 16 × 10 meter building. A church is said to have been set up in the building around 1600. The loss of the building mass is related to the construction of the nearby hunting lodge from 1689. 700 fuders (equivalent to about 600 cubic meters) of stones were removed from the castle ruins .
In the early 1970s, excavations took place on the castle hill , during which the foundations of three buildings were discovered. In 2013, the Wolfenbüttel Forestry Office of the Lower Saxony State Forests secured the remains of the ruins against further deterioration after rocks had broken out of the wall.
history
As early as 1258 a "castrum" was mentioned as a castle in Langeleben. The lords of Asseburg had received them as a fiefdom from the dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . In 1318 Duke Otto the Mild gave the castle as a fief to the Lords of Sunstedt . In 1344 the castle was again owned by the Lords of Asseburg. Another borrower were those of Heimburg . During the 13th to 15th centuries, documents mention a knight family from Langeleben. In 1555 Heinrich von Asseburg ceded the castle and the Langeleben settlement to Heinrich von Veltheim on Destedt . At the time, the living space was in serious disrepair. It is reported that the castle was "roofless and subjectless" and the surrounding barns and cattle houses had "fallen down". In 1575, Court Marshal Heinrich von Schenk acquired the castle. As the new owner, he rebuilt the castle and the farm buildings. In 1609 the complex was restored, which now had more economic than military importance. The new buildings (barns, bakery and brewery , gate house , summer house) stood north of the castle in a square courtyard.
During the Thirty Years War the castle was destroyed by fire in 1626 in connection with the siege of Wolfenbüttel. In 1661 the Brunswick Duke Anton Ulrich took over the ruins of Langeleben. He considered the place to be an ancient ducal property and wanted to take it for himself so that another landlord could not disturb him while hunting in the Elm. Only remains of the wall and a cattle shed were left. The Duke did not use the area, but had trees planted on it. After his death, his son, Hereditary Prince August Wilhelm , inherited Langeleben. As a passionate hunter, he had a hunting and pleasure palace built away from the castle ruins from 1689 .
literature
- Hans-Adolf Schultz : Burgen und Schlösser des Braunschweiger Land , Braunschweig 1980, Burg und Schloß Langeleben , pp. 57–61.
Web links
- Entry by Sandy Bieler on Langeleben in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Langeleben Castle in the Lower Saxony Monument Atlas
- Description of Burg Langeleben and Langeleben with photos
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfenbüttel Forestry Office renovates the Langeleben castle ruins at regional.heute.de from November 20, 2013