Calansue
| Calansue | ||
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 Remains of the crusader castle now house a mosque, 2009 |
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| Alternative name (s): | Calanson, Qalansuwa | |
| Creation time : | before 1128 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Wall remains | |
| Place: | Qalansawe | |
| Geographical location | 32 ° 17 '18.7 " N , 34 ° 58' 53" E | |
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The castle Calensué (Arabic: Qalansuwa (قلنسوة), also Calanson, Calanzon, Calanchun, Calenchun, Calanthone, Calenson, Calenzon, Calenzun, Calumzum, Kalenson, Kalensuu, Kalansue ) is a former crusader castle in today's Israel .
location
The remains of the castle are in what is now the city of Qalansawe . The castle secured the hinterland between Caesarea and Jaffa in what was then the Kingdom of Jerusalem .
history
At the beginning of the 12th century Calensué was a small fortification with an adjoining village owned by the Lord of Bethsan . Since Bethsan was far away, the place was in fact administered from Caesarea. On April 8, 1128 Calensué was ceded to the Hospitaller Order by the castellan Godefroi de Flujeac in the presence of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem . The assignment was confirmed a little later by Johann von Bethsan and his son Hugo , and also in 1131 by Walter von Caesarea .
In 1187, after the Battle of Hattin , Calensué fell under the rule of the Ayyubid sultan Saladin . Calensué was probably also re-occupied by the Crusaders in 1191, when the Third Crusade under Richard the Lionheart took Arsuf back, but it is not until 1207 that the Hospitallers again maintained a garrison in Calensué.
In 1265 Calensué was conquered by the Mamluks . These divided the local area between two emirs, whereby Calensué lost importance in favor of the five kilometers further south located Tira .
Today the remains of the crusader castle are built over by newer buildings. The overbuilt remains of a tower, a fortified hall, which today serves as a mosque, and some underground vaulted halls can still be seen today.
Individual evidence
literature
- Denys Pringle: Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. To Archaeological Gazetteer. Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0521460107 .
- Hugh Kennedy: Crusader Castles . Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN 0521420687 .
- Hans Wolfram Kessler / Konrad Kessler: Knights in the Holy Land: Crusader sites in Israel . Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3805345521
Web links
- maxime.goepp.free.fr (French)