Sewardissen Castle and Desert
| Sewardissen | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Sewardessen, Siwardessen | |
| Creation time : | middle Ages | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | probably a knight's seat | |
| Place: | Lichtenau - Holtheim | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 34 '58.2 " N , 8 ° 53' 20.2" E | |
| Height: | 274 m above sea level NHN | |
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The castle and deserted Sewardissen , as Sewardessen and Siwardessen called, a former village with remains of is medieval Motte (motte) and a mill dam west of Holtheim , City Lichtenau in the circle Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia .
location
The desolation and stables of the Niederungsburg are 1.5 km west of Holtheim between Holtheimer Berg and Sassenberg at 274 m above sea level. NHN at the Holtheimer Bach .
history
Sewardissen is first mentioned in 1011, when ownership was transferred here to Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn , but identification with the desert west of Holtheim is not clear. In the list of goods, with the tithe of which the Busdorfstift was endowed in 1036, this deserted area is clearly mentioned as the Vorwerk of the Episcopal Villication Sudheim .
During field inspections , ceramics from the 12th and 13th centuries were found. Excavations did not take place with the exception mentioned under church squares .
1487 Sewardissen is mentioned as desolate.
It is assumed that a ministerial of the Diocese of Paderborn was equipped with the castle not mentioned directly.
description
From the moth a 23 × 12 m large and 2-3 m high, clearly visible hill has survived. The tower hill was separated from the terrace east of the stream by a ditch . The Sewardissen desert adjoins to the east. Residential podiums can still be seen in the area. Further above, the Bachtal was blocked by a largely destroyed dam, interpreted as a Mühlendamm. Today the area is used agriculturally as pasture.
Church squares
The field name Kirchplatz near the wasteland Sewardissen as well as observations made during the reclamation of part of the site in the years before 1870 indicate the existence of a church 20 m away from the dam. In the years before 1883, Vicar Hansmeyer from Holtheim had re-excavations carried out for control purposes.
The easted building was 22 × 8 m in size and made of sandstone . Remnants of bricks were only found at the western end . There was a door on the north side. Inside, no paving could be found, but a strange blue clay . The altar was preserved about 1 m high. Traces of fire were found.
A long key , a sword , 14 horseshoes and unspecified iron objects were found on the inside of the door . Outside the church, ceramics and traces of lime kilns were discovered.
In the sacred building, the parish church of the also desolate Amerungen , attested as a parish, is often assumed. But the location of Amerungen at the confluence of the Holtheimer Bach and Altenau and of Sewardissen north of the Sassenberg is clearly attested. For this purpose , skeleton finds were made at the Amerung Chapel , which lies between the two desert areas, while there are no references to burials, as can be expected in parish churches, in Sewardissen .
See also
literature
- Gerhard Henkel : History and geography of the Büren district. Paderborn 1974.
- Wilhelm Wöhlke: The cultural landscape of the Hardehausener and Dalheimer forest in the Middle Ages. (= Regional maps and booklets of the Geographical Commission for Westphalia, series settlement and landscape in Westphalia. Vol. 2), Münster 1957, p. 8 f.
Web links
- Entry on Motte Sewardissen in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Unless otherwise noted, the presentation follows the entry on Motte Sewardissen in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on August 11, 2017. and Gerhard Henkel : Geschichte und Geographie des Kreis Büren. Paderborn 1974, p. 177 and attached map.
- ↑ See Hermann Bannasch: The Diocese of Paderborn under the Bishops Rethar and Meinwerk (983-1036). (= Klemens Honselmann (Hrsg.): Studies and sources on Westphalian history. Vol. 12), Paderborn 1972, p. 57, note 268.
- ^ Wilhelm Spancken: On the history of the Gau Soratfeld and the go and free courts in the Paderborn region. In: Westfälische Zeitschrift 40 1882, p. 7 f.
- ^ Conrad Mertens: The church squares near Holtheim. In: Westfälische Zeitschrift 41 1883, p. 206 f. Gerhard Henkel : History and geography of the Büren district. Paderborn 1974, p. 180 and attached map. The desert areas of Amerungen and Sewardessen. on the Amerungen page , accessed August 8, 2017.