Ordenberg Castle
The Castle Mountain Orden is an Outbound hilltop castle in Nordstemmen in Lower Saxony .
Location and description
The remains of the castle are on the top of the Hohewarte, a 177 m above sea level. NHN high elevation of the Schulenberg. To the south is the Marienberg with Marienburg Castle . The Marienberg forest restaurant, which opened in 1857 and burned down in 1976, stood a little below the former castle site on the northeast side of the Hohewarte. Remnants of walls and moats have been preserved at fortifications on the northwest slope of the elevation over a length of about 125 meters. The six-meter-wide wall is up to one meter high.
Carl Schuchhardt carried out excavations on the castle site around 1900. In doing so, he exposed the foundations of a tower on the hilltop, which he referred to as the “round watch tower ”. He derived the interpretation from a field name "Hohewarte" that was handed down in the 19th century. He probably excavated the Ordenberg Castle, as evidenced by recovered finds. They were bricks and hard gray earthenware that could be dated to the late Middle Ages .
Only small traces of the castle on the hilltop have survived, which have recently been overprinted. According to a measuring table from the end of the 19th century, there was an observation tower at the site . Today there is a water tank that was built for the forest restaurant below. A wall with an interior ditch is located in the southeast of the hilltop. Schuchhardt described it as a modern water reservoir for Marienburg Castle. The archaeologist Erhard Cosack sees it as the unfinished part of an Iron Age fortification.
history
A von Ordenberg family is mentioned from 1176 to the end of the 13th century. The relatives appear in documents from the bishops of Hildesheim . The family died out in 1228 and the Bock von Wülfingen probably received the fallen fiefdom of the von Ordenberg. This indicates that between 1270 and 1280 Albert Ordenberg I. Bock von Wülfingen with the nickname Ordenberg has been handed down. Until the first half of the 15th century, the Bock von Wülfingen were enfeoffed with the Ordenberg Castle. She was probably in 1458 already desolate fallen as Wilhelm Klencke was invested with the castle site. In the Hildesheim Fief Book of 1801 it is reported that nothing is known about the location of the Ordensberg Castle and that the fief was probably lost in the Hildesheim collegiate feud (1519–1523).
literature
- Margret Zimmermann, Hans Kensche: Castles and palaces in Hildesheimer Land . Hildesheim, 2001, pp. 126-127.
Web links
- Entry by Hans-Wilhelm Heine and Stefan Eismann on Ordenberg Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 32.7 " N , 9 ° 45 ′ 42.3" E