Weferlingen Castle
| Weferlingen Castle | ||
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 Castle Weferlingen on a map from 1754 |
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| Creation time : | first mentioned in 1297 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Castle stable, wall and moat remains | |
| Place: | Dettum - Weferlingen | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 9 '13.8 " N , 10 ° 41' 23.2" E | |
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The Weferlingen Castle is an abandoned medieval Niederungsburg in the village of Weferlingen, a district of Dettum in Lower Saxony .
The castle site is located in the southeastern area of Weferlingen in a pasture area. Two tree-lined walls in north-south direction, one behind the other, have been preserved, with an approximately five-meter-wide trench between them . The inner, western wall is about 55 meters long and 2.5 meters high. The difference in height between the bottom of the trench and the crest of the wall is about 4.5 meters. The outer wall, around 90 meters long, is much flatter. About 75 meters north of the ramparts, a trench runs through the area. In the south the Mühlgraben flows past the facility and there is an approximately 0.5 meter high wall. Archaeological investigations on the former castle site have not yet taken place.
In Weferlingen, the noble family of the von Weferlingen originated from the peasant class, which last had its seat in Watzum . Weferlingen Castle was first mentioned in documents as castrum Weferlingen in 1297 , when Burchard von der Asseburg sold it to the city of Braunschweig . In 1300 the castle was destroyed by mercenaries from Brunswick. In 1318 Burchard von der Asseburg acquired the fiefdom of Weferlingen, and in 1331 the Riddagshausen monastery .
During the Second World War , American bombers attacked Weferlingen on March 15, 1944 , because the attackers presumably thought the rectangular floor structure of the former castle site was an ammunition depot . The Romanesque church of the place was destroyed by aerial bombs .
literature
- Sigrun Ahlers: Topographical-archaeological investigations into prehistoric and early historical fortifications in the districts of Gifhorn, Helmstedt and Wolfenbüttel and in the urban district of Wolfsburg , (dissertation), Hamburg, 1988
Web links
- Entry by Gudrun Pischke and Stefan Eismann on Weferlingen in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- History of Weferlingen and naming of the castle in 1300 as castrum
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Barnsdorf: On the history of the von Weferlingen family from 1233 to 1775 ( Memento from September 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 268 kB)
- ^ Heinrich Barnsdorf: On the history of the von Weferlingen family from 1233 to 1775 ( Memento from December 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 268 kB)
- ↑ Tetzelzeitung No. 7 from 2010 (PDF; 2 MB)