Werder Castle
| Werder Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | around 1430 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Virtsu | |
| Geographical location | 58 ° 34 '12 " N , 23 ° 31' 26" E | |
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The Werden Castle ( Estonian Virtsu Vasallilinus ) in Estonia is the ruin of a water castle in the municipality of Lääneranna near the village of Virtsu ( German Werder ).
history
Probably around 1430 a vassal castle of the diocese Ösel-Wiek was built in Werder . It is first mentioned in written sources in 1465. It was probably used to monitor shipping traffic between the mainland and the Estonian islands. The castle was destroyed in 1533/34 during an armed conflict between the bishop of Ösel-Wiek Reinhold von Buxhoeveden and Wilhelm von Brandenburg , so that only a few of the foundation walls are preserved today. In 1536, the Wolmar Landtag expressly forbade the rebuilding of the fortress .
description
The complex was designed as a fort with a side length of 25 meters and equipped with two three-story, round towers . One of them had a 2.4 meter thick wall. A curtain wall surrounded the convent house .
literature
- Karl von Löwis of Menar : Castle Lexicon for Old Livonia. Walters and Rapa, Riga 1922, p. 124 ( digitized version ).
- Armin Tuulse: The castles in Estonia and Latvia (= negotiations of the learned Estonian society. Volume 33). Dorpater Estonian Publishing House, Dorpat 1942, pp. 317–319 ( PDF ; 15.5 MB).
Web links
- Information about the castle on virtsu.ee (Estonian)
- Virtsu Castle and Mansion (Estonian)
- Vasallenburg Werder on burgenwelt.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information about the castle on virtsu.ee , accessed on January 23, 2019.
- ^ A b Karl von Löwis of Menar: Burgenlexikon für Alt-Livland. 1922, p. 124.