Schwinkenrade Castle
The castle Schwinkenrade is a former castle in the community Ahrensbök .
location
Schwinkenrade Castle, of which only the ramparts can still be seen, was a hilltop castle from the 8th / 9th centuries that was rare for Schleswig-Holstein . Century in today's Schwinkenrader forest not far from the valley of the Schwinkenrader Mühlenbach, which flows into the Curauer Au . Schwinkenrade itself belongs to the village of Böbs in the municipality of Ahrensbök and consists of a former forester's house, several cottages and a former watermill , from which the mill jam with the remains of buildings is still preserved. It is located northwest of the Curau Moors , a large silted up dead lake , now a protected flora and fauna habitat. The surrounding Schwinkenrader Forest has been owned by the Lübeck St. Johanniskloster since 1354 , today the St. Johannes-Jungfrauenkloster Foundation , which in 1830/1831 also initiated the construction of a bridge below the mill dam.
literature
- Werner Neugebauer : Nice Holstein. A guide through the country between the Elbe and Fehmarnbelt. Lübecker Nachrichten , Lübeck 1957.
Individual evidence
- ↑ HL Behrens, CG Behrens: Topography and Statistics of Lübeck and the Bergedorf Office, which is shared with Hamburg: a contribution to the topographical-statistical-historical-political description of the Free Hanseatic City of Lübeck and its rural areas , Volume 1, published by von Rohdenschen Buchhandlung, Lübeck 1829, p. 232 (digitized version)
- ^ Finding aid archive of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
Coordinates: 53 ° 58 ′ 5.2 ″ N , 10 ° 36 ′ 53.6 ″ E