Castle east
| Castle east | ||
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 East castle - southwestern main castle |
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| Creation time : | around 1200 to 1250 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Schmarsow | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 51 '15 " N , 13 ° 11' 37" E | |
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The east castle is the ruin of a medieval castle near Schmarsow , in the district of Kruckow , in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
location
The castle is located on the Tollense near the road between Schmarsow and Roidin . The castle served as a toll castle on the then navigable Tollense and is one of a number of castles on this river.
investment
The castle consisted of a northeastern outer bailey with a rectangular floor plan and the southwestern main castle . The outer bailey still shows impressive masonry. The outer bailey is a plateau 1.2 m high and is protected by an average 12 m wide, still water-bearing ditch . It is 60 m long and 50 m wide. Remains of the tower foundations and tower mounds can still be seen from the main castle. On the map of the Swedish Land Survey 1696 you can see that both parts of the castle were previously completely surrounded by the Tollense and shows them as a two-part system with a large rampart on the northeast side. The rampart and the main parts of the castle complex were removed in 1969 after extensive work to straighten the river. There is still a moat between the castles.
The site was made accessible in the 1990s by means of wooden plank paths, which have since become damaged and are hardly passable.
history
The east castle was probably built at the beginning of the 13th century. It is possible that the noble family from the east , which can be traced back to the Demmin area from the middle of the 13th century, transferred their name to the castle. Wedige de Osten, Vogt zu Demmin, was the first documentary member of the family to settle down at Burg Osten around 1319. The villages of Schmarsow, Vanselow , Roidin and Teusin belonged to the eastern estate .
Soon after, the Osten Castle came into the possession of the von Winterfeld (t) family . During the First War of the Rügen Succession (1326–1328), Henning Winterfeld temporarily sided with the Mecklenburgers, but was again entirely on the Pomeranian side towards the end of the war. He was followed around 1330 by Ludolf Maltzahn , who probably married a daughter of Henning Winterfeld. As the seat of the von Maltzahn family, it held an important political and economic position in the Middle Ages and was one of the most powerful Pomeranian castles. Since the second half of the 14th century, the hereditary office of land marshal for the Duchy of Pomerania- Szczecin was connected with their property , which the Maltzahn retained and continued to exercise even after the ducal line of Szczecin died out in 1464.
After the Thirty Years War the castle lost its importance. Eventually it was demolished to obtain building material for the manor house in Schmarsow , among other things .
The area of the Ostener Güter north of the Tollense became a forest estate. In 1855 Woldemar von Heyden - Cartlow bought east with Schmarsow and Borgwall. From 1897, the Demminer Kleinbahn Ost line ran through the Ostener Wald . The forester's house, a half-timbered building, burned down in 1945. The dilapidated bridge over the Tollense was replaced by a new building in 2005.
literature
- Wolfgang Fuhrmann: The east castle on the Tollense. Geros-Verlag, Neubrandenburg, ISBN 3-935721-08-0 .
- Albrecht Maltzan: Contribution to the history of the eastern goods in Western Pomerania. Compiled from documents , o. O. 1843.
- Norbert Buske : The east castle. The historical and geographical significance . In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. 38th year (2000), issue 3, pp. 24-28.
- Dirk Schleinert : The Demminer area between 1500 and 1630 . In: border region between Pomerania and Mecklenburg. Lectures 1999–2000 (publications of the Friends of the District Home Museum Demmin, Vol. 2), Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 2002, pp. 61–86.
- Uwe Schwarz: The lower aristocratic fortifications in the Neubrandenburg district. Berlin 1987