Liebenau Castle
| Liebenau Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | First mention in 1300 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Liebenau | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 36 '10.5 " N , 9 ° 5' 36.6" E | |
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The Burgliebenau is an Outbound castle in Liebenau in Lower Saxony . The castle site on the floodplain has been built over for a long time and is no longer recognizable.
description
The castle was a medieval low castle , first mentioned in 1300. It was probably built decades earlier. According to other reports, it was built from stone material after the destruction of Neuhaus Castle south of Liebenau in 1335 or 1346. From a document from 1527 it is known that the castle had a moat and an outer wall . A dam led to the castle , which has been handed down to the Dammstraße in this area. After the destruction of the castle in 1512 buildings were on the Castle Square in 1527 rebuilt, including a 1728 re-chipped administration building as a two-storey timber-framed building . In the 17th century, new farm buildings were built on the former castle site, on which eight outbuildings then stood next to the administrative building in 1663.
history
Liebenau Castle was the seat of the Liebenau Bailiwick of the Counts of Hoya . After the division of the county of Hoya in 1345, it became the residence of a lower county under the name of Grafschaft von Hoya and Bruchhausen . In 1482, a Countess von Hoya received the castle in a marriage contract to secure maintenance. After the line of the Counts of Hoya and Bruchhausen died out in 1503, there was an inheritance dispute between the Upper County of Hoya and the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , as a result of which the castle was destroyed in 1512. As allies of Guelph occupied Schaumburg Count the devastated castle site and gave them only on the orders of Emperor Charles V out again. In 1527 the castle was again owned by the Counts of Hoya. They lent it to the knight Arnold von Hoya, who had the office building and other new buildings built. In 1532, Count Jobst von Hoya reversed the loan. In 1576 the office building became a widow's seat .