Ruppin Castle
| Ruppin Castle | |
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 Ruppin Castle around 1650 |
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| Alternative name (s): | Planenburg |
| Creation time : | around 1200 |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall |
| Place: | Neuruppin , district of Alt Ruppin |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 56 '49 " N , 12 ° 50' 38" E |
The Ruppin Castle (also Planenburg ) was a German low castle of the Middle Ages . It formed the political center of the Ruppin rule and the resulting Ruppin district until the 16th century . The Burgstall is located in the Alt Ruppin district of the city of Neuruppin in the northwest of the state of Brandenburg .
location
Ruppin Castle was located on the Amtswerder of Alt Ruppin, a peninsula in the north of the Ruppiner See at the confluence of the Rhins . It covered the transition possible here over the Ruppiner Seenkette ( Tornowsee , Zermützelsee , Ruppiner See, Bützsee and others), which divides the Ruppiner Land . In front of the Amtswerder is the island of Poggenwerder. The Slavic castle Ruppin , which was probably the headquarters of the Wendish tribe of the Zamzizi , was located there until the 12th century .
history
After the Ruppin land was taken over by German nobles , Ruppin Castle was built around 1200 as the seat of the Lords of Ruppin. Count Gebhard von Arnstein (* 1180/1209; † around 1256), a great-grandson of Albrecht the Bear , is the first historically documented Herr zu Ruppin. He came into the possession of the rulership around 1214, expanded Ruppin Castle and took his permanent residence there in 1240. The descendants of Gebhard from the noble family of the Counts of Lindow-Ruppin remained in possession of the rulership until 1524, when the noble family died out with the death of Count Wichmann and the rule fell to the Elector of Brandenburg . The castle had never been conquered.
After 1524 the governors of the Ruppin district and the old Ruppin officials had their seat in the castle. From 1572 to 1573 the castle was the residence of Electress Hedwig , widow of Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg . During the Thirty Years' War , the castle began to fall into disrepair, presumably as a result of fire. The roof of the last remaining building collapsed in 1779. In 1788 the castle grounds were released as a quarry. The rubble was used, among other things, for the construction of the Alt Ruppin office building on the castle grounds and for the rebuilding of Neuruppin after a city fire.
description
Ruppin Castle is said to have been one of the largest castles in the Mark Brandenburg. It was laid out as an oval moated castle and expanded into a palace at an early stage . The castle was surrounded by a curtain wall, which included around 20 round soft houses and a gate tower . The entrance from the north was protected by a bailey . The inner courtyard was surrounded by a main tower and three two-story wing structures. In addition to living rooms, the buildings included a chapel and a knight's hall . Ruppin Castle is registered as a ground monument with the number 100121 in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg .
literature
- Institute for Geography and Geoecology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (Ed.): Ruppiner Land. Results of the local history inventory in the areas of Zühlen, Dierberg, Neuruppin and Lindow (= values of our homeland . Volume 37 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1981, DNB 820301612 , p. 137-139 .
- Altruppin. In: Gerd Heinrich (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 10: Berlin and Brandenburg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 311). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-520-31102-X .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum (ed.): List of monuments of the State of Brandenburg - Ostprignitz-Ruppin district . A) Ground monuments, ground monument number 100121, December 31, 2018, p. 1 ( bldam-brandenburg.de [PDF; 346 kB ; accessed on May 13, 2019]).