Meinersen Castle
The castle Meinersen was a medieval castle in Meinersen in Gifhorn . It was located on the site of the office building built in 1765 , which today serves as an artist's house. It was a successor castle to the existing castle on the vineyard southwest of the village .
The castle, which looks like a church because of its tower, was on a slight elevation about 100 meters west of the main course of the Oker , which separated it from Meinersen. According to a description by Matthäus Merian from 1654, a tower belonged to the castle next to the buildings, which is said to have been built around the 16th century. During the construction of the office building in 1765, he found posts and foundations in the ground. According to Merian, the castle was surrounded by a small wall and a moat.
The forerunner was the nearby castle on the vineyard , on which the von Meinersen family sat and which Duke Otto der Strenge destroyed in 1316. Meinersen Castle was first mentioned in a document in 1341, when it was inhabited by Baldwin von Wenden. Another mention dates to the year 1346. At this time Ludolf von Hohnhorst received from the dukes Wilhelm II and Otto III. the system, for the expansion of which he spent 200 solder marks in 1354 with stone work and walls . In 1350 Duke Wilhelm II gave the Junker Ludwig , a son of Duke Magnus I , the church patronage over the chapel in the outer bailey . In 1368 Duke Magnus II pledged Meinersen Castle to Conrad von Roteleben. In 1390 Duke Friedrich I lent the castle to those of von Salder and that of Utze .
literature
- Sigrun Ahlers: Topographical-archaeological studies of prehistoric and early historical fortifications in the districts of Gifhorn, Helmstedt and Wolfenbüttel and in the urban district of Wolfsburg , (dissertation), Hamburg 1988
Web links
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 29.8 " N , 10 ° 20 ′ 42.3" E