Stotel Castle
| Stotel Castle | ||
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 Panorama of the Stotel castle ruins seen from a ladder |
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| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Place: | Stotel | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 27 '8.1 " N , 8 ° 36' 2.1" E | |
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The castle Stotel is a 2006 discovered castle ruin in Stotel in Lower Saxony Cuxhaven . She is assigned to the Counts of Stotel .
Geographical location
The ruins of the Niederungsburg lie on the eastern edge of the northern part of the natural spatial main unit Wesermarschen . It is located around 170 m northeast of the Stoteler village church in a marsh pasture on the southern section of a former loop (Alte Lune) of the Lune , a tributary of the Weser , which runs 7 km west of the ruins ; The northern part of the former river bend flows through the lower reaches of the Stoteler Randgraben before it flows into the Lune . The artificially straightened Lune itself runs about 400 m north-east of that in the Großer Hamm parcel at about 1 m above sea level. Ruin located near the NHN .
history
Research history
In 2006, a wall made of boulders was discovered while a power cable was being laid in the ground . In 2013, archaeological excavation work uncovered an almost circular wall section with a base width of 1.6 m and a height of around 1.7 m. In February 2014, the foundation area of a 7.65 m wide gate structure came to light in the southern part of the wall circle, which has a passage width of 2.35 m outside and 1.90 m inside. With the dendrodating of 13 timber, the oldest could be dated to the period 1150 to 1160, but most of the period from 1225 to 1245.
This means that at least this expansion phase of the castle can be attributed to Count Gerbert von Stotel (officiated 1229–1267), who first appeared in a document in 1235 as comes de Stoltelbrocke and later several times in the form of de Stoltenbroke . Since de Stoltenbroke means "the proud [castle] in the break (wet land / marsh)" , this is likely to have been the name of the castle that was newly or rebuilt in 1235.
In 2018, the remains of the foundation were permanently secured, supplemented, partially reconstructed and made accessible to the public.
Political history
After Count Rudolf von Stotel died in 1350 without a male heir, the cathedral dean Moritz von Oldenburg , a defeated competitor (against Gottfried von Arnsberg ) for the post of Archbishop of Bremen , moved in as a settled fiefdom. Rudolf's widow, however, feigned pregnancy and made a claim to compensation from the Archbishopric of Bremen . In order to be able to settle this, the cathedral chapter pledged half of the castle to the city of Bremen . In 1365 , the Domdekan, Kapitel and Bremen Council appointed a joint bailiff. This was the first attempt by the city of Bremen to control places and areas beyond the immediate vicinity. Next she gained control of Langwedel Castle in 1376 (also as a deposit) and ten years later over Stadland and Butjadingen .
literature
- Andreas Hüser, Constantin Müller, Ulrich Volkmann: The proud in the break in the new appearance - renovation of the castle ruins in Stotel (district of Cuxhaven) . In: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony . March 2019, p. 140-143 .
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Publications in the Niederdeutschen Heimatblatt
- Dieter Riemer : Gerbert von Stotel “Proud in a break.” A ruling family and their castles in Stotel . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 789 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven September 2015, p. 1 ( digital copy [PDF; 377 kB ; accessed on August 3, 2020]).
- Andreas Hüser: Two castles in Stotel. An archaeological consideration . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 833 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven May 2019, p. 2–4 ( digitized version [PDF; 3.2 MB ; accessed on June 14, 2019]).
Web links
- Entry by Michaela Jansen about Stotel Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Excavation of a medieval castle near Stotel. June 4, 2014, on landkreis-cuxhaven.de
- Medieval castle ruins discovered. In: Cuxhavener Nachrichten. June 6, 2014, on cn-online.de
- Video about the Stotel Castle. September 13, 2015, Retrieved January 1, 2016, from youtube.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topographic map and a. with the parcel at Großer Hamm of Stotel Castle ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (see large enlargement of the map), on natur-erleben.niedersachsen.de.
- ^ A b Excavation of a medieval castle near Stotel. In: www.landkreis-cuxhaven.de. 4th June 2014.
- ↑ Discovered a medieval stone castle. In: Weser courier. July 9, 2014.
- ↑ Nordsee-Zeitung October 22, 2014.
- ↑ Bernd Ulrich Hucker : The mobility of centers of rulership in the late Middle Ages, shown using the example of the Grafenburg Stoltenbroke in the Frisian-Saxon border area. In: Yearbook of the Men of the Morning Star. No. 55 (1975/76), pp. 41-61.
- ↑ Andreas Hüser / Constantin Müller / Ulrich Volkmann: The proud in the break in the new appearance In: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony. No. 3/2019, p. 140 ff.
- ↑ Thomas Hill: The city and its market: Bremen's surrounding and external relations in the Middle Ages (12th – 15th centuries). ( Digitized in the Google book search)
