Trikaten Castle
| Trikaten Castle | ||
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 Plan of the Ordensburg Trikaten |
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| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Tricata | |
| Geographical location | 57 ° 32 '27 " N , 25 ° 42' 32" E | |
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Trikaten Castle ( Latvian Trikātas viduslaiku pils ) was an order castle of the Livonian Order in what is now Latvia . The wooded castle hill rises on a 30 m high bank between the Trikaten Lake and the Abula River (German: Abbul).
history
The Trikaten landscape is named in 1208. The castle was probably built on the site of a previous hill fort. Trikaten has been mentioned frequently in documents since 1429.
According to the chronicle of Hermann von Wartberge , a church was built in Trikaten in 1284 under order master Wilhelm von Nindorf. The chronicle of the province of Livonia Balthasar Russow indicates that the Livonian Order has built three castles - Castle Wolmar , castle Burtneck and Castle Trikaten.
During the Livonian War in 1577 the castle fell to the Russians, who kept the castle until 1582, after which it was assigned to the newly founded Catholic diocese of Wenden . During the Polish-Swedish War the castle was captured by Sweden in 1600 and in 1622 Gustav II Adolf handed the castle over to the state chancellor Axel Oxenstierna . The castle was completely destroyed in the Great Northern War .
Building
The main castle had an oval Burgbering , the one by the the north ditch separate Vorburg anschmiegte wide. At the beginning of the 20th century, the remains of the outer walls and a room tower on the east side were preserved, as well as the foundations of the rooms and the outer bailey wall. To this day, the southeastern edge of the wall and fragments of the ruins of the tower are about 2 m high and about 4–5 m high. In the second half of the 20th century, an open-air theater was built in the courtyard of the palace.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronica of the Lyfflandt Province . ( wikisource.org ).
- ^ Karl Woldemar von Löwis of Menar: Burgenlexikon für Alt-Livland . Walters and Rapa, Riga 1922, p. 118 ( digitized version ).
