Lauenrode Castle
| Lauenrode Castle | |
|---|---|
| Creation time : | around 1215 |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall |
| Standing position : | Count |
| Place: | Hanover |
The castle Lauenrode is an Outbound Burg in Hannover , which was built around 1215 and was destroyed 1,371th It was outside the city on the western bank of the Leine opposite the Begin Tower of the Hanover city wall . The remains of the castle's building have not been preserved, and the earth of the castle hill has also been removed. Its location is assumed to be in the area of the former Preussag administration building on Leibnizufer .
Location and structure
Tempera picture by Ernst Jordan for the XIV. German Federal Shooting in 1903 in Hanover; owned by the Historisches Museum Hannover
Lauenrode Castle was on the Leine island "Brühl", on the former castle hill, roughly on the site of the building of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science, which was built in the post-war period .
The Inselburg was on a Werder leash outside the city of Hanover. The castle was built within an old defensive structure. Documented parts of the castle from 1254 are a bailey in the west, a keep , the St. Galli castle chapel , a palas and a bower . The accessories included the two town mills, Brückmühle and Klickmühle .
history
The castle complex was first mentioned in 1215. The lords of the castle were the Counts of Roden , who had been enfeoffed with the city of Hanover by Heinrich the Lion around 1160. After the death of Konrad I von Roden, his sons Konrad II and Hildebold II initially administered the inheritance together, but in 1215 at the latest they shared it: Konrad II received the eastern fiefs of the family with Hanover. He moved into the newly built Lauenrode Castle on the western bank across from Hanover. She became the center of his rule. From then on he called himself "von Lauenrode". His son and successor Konrad III. died childless in 1239. After that, the unmarried brothers Konrad IV and Heinrich II sat in the castle, who ruled the city as bailiffs . In 1241 they left the castle, which then became a protective castle of the city of Hanover maintained by the sovereign. The citizens paid the castle men .
Picture relief by Werner Hantelmann as part of the historical frieze on the New Town Hall of Hanover
The so-called " Zwingburg der Welfen ", as Helmut Zimmermann called the complex, also served as a demonstration of the sovereign's strength, as a symbol of power turned into stone for the Hanoverian citizens .
During the War of the Lüneburg Succession , the Burgmannen stood on the side of Duke Magnus II Torquatus of Braunschweig . His adversaries Duke Albrecht and his uncle Wenzel von Sachsen-Wittenberg stormed the castle in 1371 and subsequently granted the city of Hanover the Great Privilege . This allowed, among other things, the razing of the castle, which the citizens of the city carried out. Around 1540, the soil of the castle hill on the opposite bank of the Leine was heaped up to form a wall, creating the Hohe Ufer . The old castle site was built with residential buildings from the 16th century. There the core of the later Calenberger Neustadt was formed on the western bank of the Leine.
The painter Karl Hapke created a watercolor that illustrates Lauenrode Castle on the Leine with the Begin tower opposite and the medieval character of defense around 1300.
Literature (selection)
- Arnold Nöldeke : Lauenrode Castle , in this: The art monuments of the city of Hanover , part 1 and 2: Monuments of the "old" city area of Hanover. In: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover Vol. 1, H. 2, Teil 1, Hannover, Selbstverlag der Provinzialverwaltung, Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932, S. 17f., 42ff .; Digitized via archive.org
- Helmut Knocke : Lauenrode Castle. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 100.
Web links
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
- Entry by Stefan Eismann about Lauenrode Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Simon Benne : May 31, 1971 / The castle that no longer exists today : 66 days. A journey through the history of Hanover , Ed .: Madsack Medienagentur GmbH & Co. KG, 2016, ISBN 978-3-946544-07-4 and ISBN 3-946544-07-X , pp. 30f.
- ↑ Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Ed.): Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 100