Lauenburg Castle (Bodenwerder)
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 Information board below Lauenburg Castle in the ditch that separates the castle hill from the mountain spur |
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| Creation time : | 12th to 13th centuries | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | Castle stable, castle hill, moat | |
| Place: | Bodenwerder - lens | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 59 '43.5 " N , 9 ° 31' 10.9" E | |
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The Lauenburg is a Outbound medieval Spur castle north of Bodenwerder in the district of Holzminden in Lower Saxony .
description
The castle site is located east of Kreisstraße 10 in a forest area on the edge of the Weser Valley northwest of the Bodenwerder district of Linse . The castle was built on the crest of the Lauenburg hill, a side elevation of the Heiligenberg, in a strategically favorable location. The remains of the castle can be found on a mountain spur , the slopes of which drop off steeply on three sides. In the north, an artificially created deep moat separates the castle hill from the spur. On the castle plateau there are two larger circular to elongated ground depressions, which could be the former cellars of castle buildings or towers. At the edge of the plateau small remains of the wall protrude from the ground, which probably belonged to the curtain wall . They suggest an oval shape of the castle with the dimensions of about 10 × 30 meters.
In 1893 an archaeological investigation of the castle took place in the form of an excavation . The sparse remains of the castle suggest that it was never completed.
history
There is no historical tradition about the castle and its name. The noblemen of Homburg , who had their seat on the Homburg near Stadtoldendorf and ruled over a larger area for three centuries (from 1144 to 1409), come into question as builders . It is believed that the noble lords wanted to extend their sphere of influence to the Weser, an important traffic route at the time, with the construction of the castle. The Weser valley could be viewed and controlled from the castle in an elevated position.
In 1245 the noblemen came into possession of a settlement on the nearby Weser Island through knight Heinrich II von Homburg , which they acquired from the Corvey Monastery . They named the river island in reference to the noblemen Bodo von Homburg in Bodos Werder , which later became Bodenwerder. The noble lords built a castle complex in the village, so that Lauenburg Castle lost its originally intended importance.
The castle name Lauenburg may have been derived from Löwenburg . This is indicated by the coat of arms of the noble lords of Homburg, in which they led a lion .
Web links
- Entry by Stefan Eismann zu Lauenburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Description, photos and map at burgenwelt.de