Pölitz Castle
| Pölitz Castle | ||
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 Map of the settlement area Pölitz with the castle area between the Elbe and Pölitz Lake (1723), subsequently colored |
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| Creation time : | Medieval | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Gedelitz | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 3 '33.3 " N , 11 ° 19' 42.2" E | |
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The castle Pölitz was a medieval lowland castle of the type of a motte (Motte) in Lower Saxony , which is about 3 km north of Gedelitz located. It is a castle stable , as no remains of the facility that are visible above have survived.
The fortification was on the Pölitzer Haken, which is an old arm of the Elbe . A map from 1723 shows the water at this time as a lake and shows the castle hill in a narrow area between the lake and the Elbe. It is believed that the castle hill was leveled when the Elbe was regulated in the late 19th century or in the 1930s. Today the castle is located near a former farm that belonged to the former settlement of Pölitz.
Readings of Slavic ceramics from the 10th to 12th centuries and medieval ceramics from the 12th to 14th centuries were made at the castle site . It is not clear whether the pottery can be traced back to an earlier Slavic settlement or a Slavic fortification.
Old arm of the Elbe with the castle site in the middle of the picture
See also
literature
- Wolfgang Jürries , Berndt Wachter (Ed.): Pölitz, Burg in: Wendland-Lexikon . Volume 2: LZ , 2nd edition. Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft Köhring & Co., Lüchow 2008, ISBN 978-3-926322-28-9 , p. 243
