Uetersen Castle (II)

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Uetersen Castle (II)
Alternative name (s): Uetersen Castle
Creation time : before 1250
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Uetersen (Deichstrasse)
Geographical location 53 ° 40 '42.1 "  N , 9 ° 38' 44.3"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 40 '42.1 "  N , 9 ° 38' 44.3"  E
Uetersen Castle (Schleswig-Holstein)
Uetersen Castle

The so-called Castle Uetersen (II) or Castle Uetersen is one of two dialed castles on the outskirts of Pinnau and the present city of Uetersen used by the Knights of Barmstede were built. It was built before 1250 and played an important role in the first (1282) and second battles near Uetersen (1306) . It was located on the current company premises of OleoServ (formerly Harles and Jentzsch ). Another castle ( Burg Uetersen (I) ) was located on the site of the Uetersen Monastery .

The Niederungsburg was first mentioned in a report on the First Battle of Uetersen . A second mention as Castris apud Vtersten followed in 1306 in a strategic preparation for the Second Battle of Uetersen

The castle was specifically mentioned in a document from 1321, which the provost Daniel of the Reinbek monastery signed. It says that Count Johann III. (der Milde) and the Count of Schauenburg in 1321 had divided the “Uetersen Castle” with tenants so that each of them should own half of the castle (dimidietatem castri) and half of the tenants.

In a second document, which was issued on the Thursday after Easter in Oldesloe in 1322, and which was unknown until its publication in Michelsen's document book (Volume II, p. 48), Count Johann indicates that he received the Count from the Schauenburger The half of the castle that had been pledged to the Uetersen rulership would be returned to the same and instead the Woltorf castle and the rulership attached to it, as well as the Hamburg parish Jacobi, insofar as it was outside the outermost city wall, should be given back in pledge.

Another document from 1333 proves that the Count of Schauenburg pledged the Woltorf Castle, the parish of Jacobi and the castle to Count Johann and that in 1322 the Count of Schauenburg "took the other half of the castri Uetersen by exchange."

After that, the castle was not mentioned again in a document according to today's knowledge. It was probably canceled later. Johann Friedrich Camerer reported on the remains of the castle in 1759: Right next to the pond (dyke), straight to Haselau, there is a large round square on which, according to the legend of the inhabitants, a castle of the Counts of Schaumburg should have stood ... The inhabitants who had accompanied me told me so much that they could find a lot of stones while digging. It can therefore be that this womb has been broken off and thus destroyed from the earth.

Literature and Sources

  • Niels Nikolaus Falck : Handbook of Schleswig-Holstein Private Law , Altona 1825 (page 240)
  • Niels Nikolaus Falck: New citizenship magazine, with special consideration for the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg. , Schleswig 1832 (page 66)
  • Niels Nikolaus Falck: Archive for history, statistics, customer of the administration and state rights of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg. , Kiel 1844 (pages 83 to 86)
  • Eduard Wippermann: Brief State History of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein , Halle 1847 (page 62)
  • Karl Wieding: The pretensions to the duchies of Schleswig-Holstein , Greifswald 1865 (page 410)
  • Wilhelm Ehlers: History and Folklore of the Pinneberg District (Elmshorn 1922)
  • Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History ( ZSHG 93): Doris Meyn: The two castles of Uetersen (1968)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History ( ZSHG 93): Doris Meyn: The two castles of Uetersen (1968)
  2. SHRU 3, Certificate No. 137
  3. ^ Archive for history, statistics, customer of the administration and state rights of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, Volume 3, page 82; Niels Nikolaus Falck; Schwers'sche bookstore; 1844
  4. Johann Friedrich Camerer : Mixed historical-political news in letters from some strange areas of the duchies Schleßwig and Hollstein, their natural history and other rare antiquities (Flensburg and Leipzig 1758–1762)