Grimnitz castle ruins
| Grimnitz castle ruins | ||
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 Former moat of Grimnitz Castle |
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| Creation time : | 1247 to 1297 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, location | |
| Conservation status: | Outdoor facilities, cellar vaults, wall foundations | |
| Standing position : | Princes, Margraves | |
| Place: | Joachimsthal - Grimnitz | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 58 ′ 41.7 " N , 13 ° 45 ′ 33.5" E | |
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The Grimnitz castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle on a sandy elevation in the Joachimsthal district of Grimnitz . It was a Romanesque border castle of the Ascanians to the Uckermark . It later became the first of several Grimnitzer Glashütte locations . Today a cellar vault, surrounding wall foundations and outdoor facilities are still preserved from the castle.
The exact age of the castle has not yet been determined. The first known documentary mention of the castle took place in 1297. Historians, however, agree that the castle was already under the ruling Ascanian margraves Johann I and Otto III. of Brandenburg existed and this served as a hunting seat on the edge of the Schorfheide . The castle strategically secured the road between Werbellinsee and Grimnitzsee in the direction of Uckermark and Pommern. With the division of the estate between Johann I and Otto III. Grimnitz Castle came to the Johannine line in the course of the division of the country and became the preferred hunting seat of Otto IV. His successors up to Waldemar the Great also stayed regularly in Grimnitz. After that it was temporarily silent and the castle complex fell into disrepair from 1340. It was not until 1514 under Elector Joachim I that the castle complex was restored and subsequently modernized by the builder Caspar Theiss . In 1529 the inheritance contract between Brandenburg and Pomerania was signed on Grimnitz . The castle was badly damaged and partially destroyed in the Thirty Years War . In the 18th century it was finally left to decay. In 1860 it was bought by a building materials dealer for demolition. His heirs donated the castle ruins to the German Emperor Wilhelm I.
The construction of the glass factory in Grimnitz took place under Elector Johann Georg by his personal physician and Hofalchimisten Leonhard Thurneysser in the period between 1571 and 1584. The seat of Grimnitzer glassworks was first published on several occasions in Joachimsthal and then passed over Althüttendorf after Neugrimnitz north of Althüttendorf.
Today the castle is owned by the Grimnitz Glassworks Association.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments - Brandenburg. Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9
- W. Ebert: The Askanians and the Great Werbellinsche Heide - fortresses or hunting seats? [1]
