Oschersleben Castle
| Oschersleben Castle | |
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 Oschersleben Castle (courtyard side) during renovation work |
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| Alternative name (s): | Oschersleben Castle |
| Creation time : | around 1200 |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg |
| Conservation status: | Storage building, parts of the fortification, tower |
| Standing position : | Clerical |
| Place: | Oschersleben |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 1 '27.3 " N , 11 ° 13' 30.1" E |
| Height: | 85 m above sea level NN |
The castle Oschersleben , partly as a castle Oschersleben called, is the Middle Ages declining castle in Oschersleben district Borde in Saxony-Anhalt , which is obtained only in some residues.
history
The castle was built as a Niederungsburg in the immediate vicinity of the Bode . It was provided with walls and moats. The earliest documented mention comes from the year 1205, although the castle is probably older. In addition to a main castle , there was north of it a bailey , which was later used as farmyard.
Strategically, the castle served to secure a crossing over the Große Bruch located here , a swamp area that is no longer in this form today, 50 kilometers long and up to two kilometers wide. The complex was owned by the bishops of Halberstadt , who, however, repeatedly pledged it, for example to the ore monastery of Magdeburg and the counts of Regenstein . In 1545, Cardinal Albrecht had an episcopal office set up and the castle renovated and expanded to the north towards the city. A four-storey residential building in the Renaissance style was built , the so-called castle . With the transition to Brandenburg in 1648, the castle became a domain . In 1691/92 a two-storey, plastered office building was built, which demarcated the farmyard to the southwest. In the second half of the 19th century, the domain passed into private hands. In 1896 the castle was demolished except for a stair tower that has been preserved to this day and rebuilt as a warehouse. The material from the previous building was used again.
Today's appearance
The former castle complex has largely disappeared. This particularly affects the outer bailey. In large parts only an empty space remained. The castle, which was converted into a storage facility, has been preserved, but is largely empty and in need of renovation. One portals designed as a pointed arch and two as a round arch still bear witness to the original function as a castle . Some rectangular windows with bar-framed garments as well as a stone coat of arms with the coat of arms of the archbishops of Magdeburg and Mainz and of the bishop of Halberstadt have been preserved. There is also a spiral staircase from the second half of the 16th century. In the area of the old core castle, remnants of the historical fortifications have also been preserved.
The property was acquired in 2011 by Bewos Wohnungsbau- und Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH, a subsidiary of the city of Oschersleben. She has made it her business to renovate this monument into a residential and commercial property. The future use consists of an archive, apartments and an event hall. The aim is to revitalize the historic city center. According to the house-in-house principle, the new load-bearing structure was placed on micro-bored piles. The former castle is an architectural eye-catcher and a magnet for the city of Oschersleben.
literature
- Ute Bednarz in Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt I, Magdeburg administrative district . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 677 f.
- Corinna Köhlert, Jürgen Blume: Of palaces and fortresses in Saxony-Anhalt. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2000, ISBN 3-89812-058-9 , page 144.
- Rabea Raabe: Conversion and renovation of Oschersleben Castle into a residential and commercial property. Master thesis, Magdeburg.
