Castle in the vineyard
The castle on the vineyard was a medieval castle near Meinersen in the Gifhorn district , of which no remains have survived. It was a predecessor of the Meinersen Castle, which was built later .
The castle stable of the facility is located south-west of the village around 200 meters from the main road in the Oker valley . The castle stood about 50 meters east of the river on a 50 × 50 meter elevation that is still around 1.7 meters high today.
The von Meinersen family , first mentioned in a document in 1147, sat in the castle . It received its domain directly as an imperial fief and was not subject to any prince or duke. In 1315 there was a dispute between those of Meinersen and Duke Otto der Strenge . He destroyed the castle in 1316 and added Meinersen to the Principality of Lüneburg .
literature
- Sigrun Ahlers: Topographical-archaeological studies of prehistoric and early historical fortifications in the districts of Gifhorn, Helmstedt and Wolfenbüttel as well as in the urban district of Wolfsburg . Dissertation, Hamburg 1988.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Przybilla, Peter: Die Edelherren von Meinersen , Hannover 2007, p. 33, ISBN 978-3-7752-6036-7 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 '18.6 " N , 10 ° 20' 54.3" E