Loburg Castle
| Loburg Castle | |
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 Bergfried der Loburg, seen from the castle courtyard |
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| Creation time : | 8th to 10th century |
| Conservation status: | Ruin, keep |
| Place: | Loburg |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 7 '2 " N , 12 ° 4' 8" E |
The Loburg in Loburg is the ruin of a small castle in the Jerichower Land district in Saxony-Anhalt . Only the imposing keep and a barrel-vaulted cellar are preserved from the medieval Loburg Castle . The other buildings are from the 18th and 19th centuries. Century.
history
From the 8th to 10th centuries, a Slavic hill fort existed on an artificially raised hill. The Castle Ward was in Slavic Gau Moroszani, that of Henry I . 928/29 was occupied. It was the center of a Burgward district, which was first mentioned in a document by Otto I in 965 when the Burgward was handed over to the Moritz monastery . During the great Slav uprising in 983 it fell into the hands of the insurgents. In 1114, Wiprecht von Groitzsch , who had to submit to the Archbishop of Magdeburg , was brought to the Loburg. Her Vogt was a non-Christian Slav named Pribor (n). Loburg was first mentioned expressis verbis as a castle in 1292 .
The property located on the edge of the archbishopric area was often lent and pledged in the following times. The late medieval stone buildings that still exist today were probably built by the Santersleben family in the 14th century. They called themselves Burgraves of Loburg and were in the service of the Archdiocese of Magdeburg . The frequent pledges lasted until 1609 the cathedral chapter bought back the castle from the bankrupt von Mandelsloh family and from then on administered it as an office itself. As early as 1611 the castle was designated as uninhabitable. In 1680 the office of Loburg became the property of Kurbrandenburg . The newer, partly still existing official buildings were erected on the area of the outer bailey after the Thirty Years' War , while the ruins of the inner bailey were gradually removed, as was common at the time, for the extraction of building material.
Around 1720 an office building began to be built over an old cellar, the gatehouse was repaired and farm buildings were built. The old bridge was replaced by a stone structure in 1756. In 1831 the castle came into the possession of Friedrich August von Wulffen . He had the old office building rebuilt over the medieval cellar. The gatehouse was also extensively repaired. In 1870, the building was converted in a representative way in order to rent it to the district administrator Freiherr von Plathow.
literature
- Georg Dehio (founder), Ernst Gall (ed.): Handbook of German art monuments . The district of Magdeburg . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-422-03018-2 , (reprint of the Berlin 1976 edition).
- Paul Grimm : The prehistoric and early historical castle walls of the districts of Halle and Magdeburg . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1958 ( manual of the prehistoric and early historical ramparts and fortifications . Volume 1).
- Berent Schwineköper (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 11: Province of Saxony Anhalt (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 314). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-520-31402-9 .
- Andreas Stahl: The keep of the Loburg district castle in the focus of monument preservation . In: Castles and palaces in Saxony-Anhalt . No. 9, 2009, ISSN 0944-4157 , pp. 99-108.
