Glienke castle wall
| Glienke castle wall | |
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 Attempted reconstruction |
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| Creation time : | 9th century |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall |
| Place: | Glienke |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 35 '1 " N , 13 ° 25' 9" E |
The castle wall of Glienke is Disposed Slavic Burgwall that the village located southwest Glienke on the edge of Datzeniederung in Mecklenburg County Lakeland was.
The site had been known as a Slavic settlement since 1969 , but the remains of an entire castle complex came to light when the Federal Motorway 20 was built. Since the Burgstall lies entirely in the area of the northern loop on and off the Neubrandenburg -Ost junction , the area could be examined on almost six hectares. The excavations were led by the Neubrandenburg archaeologist Volker Schmidt .
It was a single-unit low castle , which had an almost square interior of 70 by 65 meters. The two-gate ramparts were surrounded by a 9 to 12 meter wide trench . Immediately to the east and west of the gates there was an outer bailey settlement , which was also secured by a ditch. In the north a smaller lake bordered the castle, which drained into the nearby Datze river. The entire castle settlement was built in one go in the late 870s and renewed in the early 10th century. No further construction work could be demonstrated for the period after 957, so that the castle may have been abandoned after this time. One of the finds was a previously unknown Slavic pottery, which has since been referred to as the "Glienke type". In addition, you hid arrowheads , spurs, sword residues and three-layer combs . Other finds indicate that the castle residents were busy trading in the Carolingian Empire , Norway and the eastern regions. The excavator therefore came to the conclusion that the castle was the fortified seat of a redarian nobleman . The castle was possibly abandoned in favor of the strengthened priesthood in Rethra .
literature
- Sebastian Messal: A Slavic aristocratic residence from the 9th and 10th centuries near Glienke, Mecklenburg-Strelitz district. In: The A20 motorway - Northern Germany's longest excavation: Archaeological research on the route between Lübeck and Stettin. , Schwerin 2005, pp. 153-160.