Polle castle ruins

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Polle castle ruins
Polle castle ruins on the Weser

Polle castle ruins on the Weser

Alternative name (s): Eversteiner Burg near Polle, Burg Polle
Creation time : first mentioned in 1285
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: ruin
Place: Pollen
Geographical location 51 ° 53 '50.4 "  N , 9 ° 24' 25.4"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 53 '50.4 "  N , 9 ° 24' 25.4"  E
Height: 112.5  m above sea level NHN
Castle ruin Polle (Lower Saxony)
Polle castle ruins

The Polle castle ruin is the ruin of a hilltop castle on an approximately 25 meter high cliff directly on the Weser above the municipality of Polle in the Holzminden district in Lower Saxony .

The facility, first mentioned in 1285 as "Everstein Castle", was the seat of the Everstein Counts . It was also called "Eversteiner castle in Polle," is not to be confused with the southern 10 kilometers Castle Everstein the ridge Castle Hill .

Location and building description

The castle is situated on a rocky elevation east of the Weser near a distinctive bend in the river . The summit drops steeply on three sides as a rock. The castle complex consisted of an upper castle and a lower castle , of which essentially only remnants of the curtain wall have been preserved. From the upper castle there are remains of several buildings and wall remains of the gate tower as well as the outer walls of the residential buildings. There is also an approximately 20 m high, climbable round tower , which served as a watch tower and keep . An underground passage leads from it to the castle fountain . In the past, the castle was additionally secured with walls, in some cases with double moats and drawbridges and ramparts. The ruin can be visited.

history

Polle Castle is believed to have been built around the year 1200. It is considered one of the ancestral castles of the Everstein counts . At the time of its first documented mention in 1285, it was the seat of the Everstein Counts, who, as supporters and relatives of the Staufers , had lost their Everstein Castle to the Welfs near Amelungsborn Monastery in 1284 . In 1407, Heinrich I, as Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, took Polle Castle in the course of the Everstein feud with a force of 13,000 men. In 1408, Count Hermann VII from Everstein handed over his county to the Brunswick dukes, so that Polle Castle finally fell to the Guelphs.

Polle and the castle ruins in the 19th century

During the Thirty Years War , the army led by Johann T'Serclaes von Tilly besieged Polle Castle and plundered it after the conquest in 1623. The town of Polle also suffered damage. In 1641 Swedish troops shot up the castle with their guns, which burned out. The castle was not captured by the Swedes. After the end of the war, the lower castle was rebuilt from 1656, while the upper castle was left as a ruin. An office building in the style of the Weser Renaissance was built in the lower castle , which was destroyed in the heavy fighting for Polle at the end of the Second World War. Only the Renaissance portal with its coat of arms has been preserved from the building.

An extensive renovation of the castle complex took place from 1984 to 1988. Between 2007 and 2009 archaeological excavations took place on the castle grounds , the finds of which are in the castle museum. Several times a year cultural events take place in the castle courtyard , including performances of the fairy tale Cinderella , as Polle is the alleged “home” of the Cinderella.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Breathtaking view of the Weser: Polle castle ruins. July 28, 2017, accessed January 12, 2020 .

Web links

Commons : Burg Polle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files