Pretzetze Castle
| Pretzetze Castle | ||
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 Former location of the castle on the site of the later forester's house |
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| Creation time : | first mentioned in 1330 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, castle hill | |
| Place: | Pretzetze | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 4 '12.7 " N , 11 ° 18' 17.6" E | |
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The Pretzetze Castle is an abandoned medieval low castle of the type of a tower hill castle (Motte) in Pretzetze in Lower Saxony . It is a castle stable , as no remains of the facility that are visible above have survived.
The castle was located on a 42 × 39 meter plateau that still exists today, rising about 2 to 3 meters from the Elbe valley . Today the slightly elevated space is on the road between Grippel and Laase on the outside of the Elbe. In the area of the castle there is a former forester's house, which is now used as a residential building. The castle site is partially covered by a dike reinforcement carried out in the 19th century.
The castle was first mentioned in 1330 under the name "hus de pritzeze". During the War of the Lüneburg Succession (1370-1389), it was besieged and captured in 1376 by the troops of Charles IV using firearms. Then the castle was rebuilt and belonged to Dannenberg Castle .
literature
- Wolfgang Juerries , Berndt Wachter (Ed.): Pretzetze, Burg . In: Wendland-Lexikon . Volume 2: LZ , 2nd edition. Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft Köhring & Co., Lüchow 2008, ISBN 978-3-926322-28-9 , p. 2