Wolde Castle Hill
| Wolde Castle Hill | ||
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 Church ruins on the castle hill |
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| Creation time : | around 1350 to 1400 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Wall, ditch | |
| Standing position : | Hereditary, knight | |
| Place: | Wolde | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 40 '37 " N , 13 ° 4' 57.8" E | |
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The castle hill is located near Wolde in the Mecklenburg Lake District , in the eastern center of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
location
The castle hill is located in the manor park at the end of the park path southeast of the village.
history
The complex was probably built in the late 14th century. In the 14th century, the influential Pomeranian Marshal Henning von Winterfeld held Wolde Castle. In 1428 Heinrich von Maltzahn was enfeoffed with the castle. His descendant Bernd II von Maltzan was the owner around 1490. When he did not fulfill the conditions of a judgment passed against him, Duke Bogislaw X. of Pomerania besieged the castle with the support of troops from Greifswald , Stralsund , Anklam and Demmin . Bernd von Maltzan had the fortifications expanded and recruited additional crews. Therefore the attacks of the besiegers were unsuccessful at first. It was only when an explosion destroyed the defenders' powder stores and large parts of the fortifications that the ducal troops managed to storm the castle. The destruction of the complex is mentioned in a document on August 29, 1491.
The Maltzan / Maltzahn lost Wolde Castle as a result and it became the property of the von Preen family . It was built of them obviously again, because there are inventories of the castle from this period in Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin , in Landesarchiv Greifswald and State Archives Szczecin (Archiwum Państwowe w Szczecinie). In the 18th century Wolde was again in the possession of the Maltzan (Mecklenburg line), in the first half of the 19th century it was owned by Baron Gustav von Maltzahn (Pomeranian line), Count von Plessen, on Ivenack . From this the entire property was first transferred to a Herr von Fabrice in 1850 , and in 1865 to the von Heyden -Linden family on Tützpatz , also in the Demmin district. By this time the castle had long since become a ruin. The residence was Wolde Castle, built in 1797 by Bogislav Helmut von Maltzahn, which was demolished in 1945.
Since Slavic shards of the Menkendorf type were also found here , it can be assumed that a Slavic settlement or castle existed here in the 12th - 13th centuries before the German complex.
A neo-Romanesque church was built on the site of the castle complex in 1859/1860. It is shaped like a Greek cross and has a six-sided wooden dome. Currently it can only be visited as a ruin. On the altar was a bronze sculpture, Maria Magdalena on the crucifix, which was created in 1854 by the late classicist sculptor Ernst Rietschel . Today it is on loan in Schwerin Cathedral .
investment
The site of the facility covers an area of 180 by 85 meters. On the north side, the former Niederungsburg is surrounded by a 12 meter wide moat. In the southern part it is protected by a wall 3.5 meters high. The weir system was divided into a smaller main castle and an upstream southern outer castle . The main castle was on a 5 meter high plateau and is around 40 by 35 meters. In the east there is a stream and wide meadows, so it was naturally protected from here.
literature
- Hans Branig : History of Pomerania Part 1: From the development of the modern state to the loss of state independence 1300–1648 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-412-07189-7 .
- G. Lisch : Joachim Maltzan, the first baron of his line, a biographical sketch . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology - Volume 20 (1855), pp. 3–78, Schwerin, at: Digital Library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Bertold Schmidt: The history of the family of Maltzan and of Maltzahn , published on behalf of the family, Schleiz 1900–1907.
- Karl-Otto Konow: The Maltzan legal case - On the legal practice of Bogislav X. In: Baltic Studies NF 62 (1976), pp. 36-52.
Web links
- Demmin, Landkreis Demmin, Wolde , on the private homepage Demminarchiv of Wolfgang Fuhrmann.
- The later Wolde mansion from the Duncker collection .