Castle moat (Uetersen)

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The moat with historical market stalls

The moat in Uetersen is a historical body of water from the 12th century.

The moat flowed around the moat earlier the former castle square of the monastery founder Henry II. Of Barmstede (ca. 1210-1240). He built two castles in and near Uetersen in the 12th century, where he later had his residence. He also donated the building of the Uetersen monastery in 1234 , which was under the sovereignty of the Archdiocese of Bremen . Heinrich II was one of the most important men under Adolf IV. He appeared in many of the count's documents of the time as one of the top signatories.

The former Niederungsburg was probably a main castle , which was surrounded by a wide moat (today also popularly known as the "moat") and a bailey or a watchtower that was also surrounded by a moat (pale moat). The castle complex (moat) was first mentioned around 1234 in a deed of donation from Heinrich II von Barmstede. Other mentions come in the Fundatio of the Uetersen monastery (founding history of the monastery from 1237) and the Otia Jersbecensia (1738) of the royal. dan. Chancellery and government and higher court advocates Jürgen Grube .

Today's moat, about 8–10 meters wide, leads to the monastery church along the Gustchen-Stolberg-Promenade, which was built up to the year 1818 (apartments for monastery servants, coach house and horse stables as well as two prison cells). There it flows through a driveway to the monastery and continues on a path shaded by old chestnut trees to the city center of Uetersen.

Literature and Sources

  • Johann Friedrich Camerer mixed up historical-political news in letters from some remarkable areas of the duchies of Schleßwig and Hollstein, their natural history and other rare antiquities (Part 2. News from the Stift and Flecken Uetersen) . Flensburg and Leipzig 1762.
  • Wilhelm Ehlers: History and folklore of the Pinneberg district . Verlag JM Groth, Elmshorn 1922
  • Hans Ferdinand Bubbe : Attempt of a chronicle of the city and the monastery Uetersen . Book 1 and 2. CDC Heydorns, Uetersen 1932 and 1938
  • Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History ( ZSHG 93): Doris Meyn: The two castles of Uetersen (1968)
  • Elsa Plath-Langheinrich : Uetersen Monastery in Holstein (Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2009)
  • Hans-Herbert Henningsen: The monastery owl remembers ... great-great-great-old stories about the Uetersen monastery (Heydorn Verlag Uetersen 2005)
  • Hans-Herbert Henningsen: The monastery mole remembers ... Great-great-great-old stories about the Uetersen monastery (Heydorn Verlag Uetersen 2009)
  • Hans-Herbert Henningsen: Archaeological aspects in Uetersen monastery , in the yearbook for the Pinneberg district 2010 (page 167–210)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elsa Plath-Langheinrich: Uetersen Monastery in Holstein , page 9 (Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 2009)
  2. ^ Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History ( ZSHG 93): Doris Meyn: The two castles of Uetersen, pages 17-20 (1968)
  3. ↑ This contains historical news from the Holstein noble maiden monastery Uetersen, antiquity, goods, rights , privileges, duties and customs and is provided with many documents and certificates.

Web links

Commons : Burggraben Uetersen  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 57.1 ″  N , 9 ° 39 ′ 28 ″  E