Dammhof area

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On the city view of Flensburg von Braun and Hogenberg, which was made between 1572 and 1618, a bare knoll surrounded by plankwork can be seen in the area of ​​St. Johannis (picture shows part of the city view)
The top of the castle hill with adjacent buildings in 2014.

The Dammhof area is located in Flensburg , near the St. Johannis church in the Johannisviertel , where, according to tradition, a castle and later a courtyard should have stood in the area in question. The Dammhof area is associated with the legend of the knight Fleno . Nowadays the area is largely built over and has been changed a lot, so that more recent archaeological research is hardly possible. It was nevertheless registered as an excavation reserve for the city.

Position and shape over time

The probably original Dammhof area is now between the streets Johanniskirchhof, Süderfischerstraße, Plankemai and Johannisstraße. The street Am Dammhof also runs along the aforementioned area . At the beginning of the 1960s the Löhmann School still stood in the area there. From 1964, the Flensburg Chamber of Crafts was established in this area . Nevertheless, a knoll of about 70 by 80 meters has been preserved in the area there ( location ). The oldest castle in Flensburg is said to have been located here.

Jakob Röschmann also mentions in his book from 1963 a steep-edged embankment that curves from the corner of the streets Johanniskirchhof and Süderfischerstraße to Plankemai number 10. There are still embankments here today, but this area has changed a lot in the meantime, including an underground car park , so that the exact original course of the embankments mentioned should now hardly be determinable. Furthermore, he indicated further slope sections, from which another larger rectangular area indicated. In addition, a moat was confirmed by drilling in 1957. It was up to 4 meters deep. The moat consisted of several watercourses and ran around the larger rectangular area. The moat is also confirmed by the old name "Der Graben", which describes the eastern area of ​​the Dammhof area towards Johannisstrasse. In addition, the name Dammhof means "pond farm". "Dam" means "pond" in Danish .

Approximate location of the Dammhofpforte in the street Am Dammhof (photo 2014)

It is assumed that this castle could have been a tower castle , in which a nobleman lived in the 12th century and who operated a customs post on Angelburger Straße in the name of the sovereign , namely where it originally began, approximately in Crossing area below Angelburger Straße 33, where the Mühlenstrom flowed and the fishing peninsula ended at the Wiesharde area . - Due to its location, the presumed customs castle is associated with the castle of the legendary knight Fleno . The castle could also have served to protect the trading center from the Wendish pirates . For the year 1248 it is recorded that King Erich Plogpenning fought against his brother Duke Abel of Schleswig and therefore attacked St. Johannis and destroyed it by fire. This attack could also point to the castle, since it can be assumed that at that time there was no attack against a harmless fishing village, but against a ducal defense system. The king may have destroyed the castle at that time.

The name of the dam courtyard is first recorded in the 16th century. Parts of the Dammhof area belonged to the town and the church at times. On May 20, 1598, the mayor Johann Klöcker received the Dammhof with its paddocks, with which the Dammhof was first mentioned. At that time there were probably numerous reservoirs for fish near the farm. From the 17th century, the name Dammhof is also used as a field name. The areas east of the church, which are located south of the street Am Dammhof , also belonged to the Dammhof at that time . The Dammhof stretched from the oat market to the Plankemai. The street Am Dammhof , which used to be called Strohsack , ran through the area from west to east . In the 16th century there was a Dammhofpforte in the street . South of the street Am Dammhof , part of the Dammhof area was also called Peperborg (Pfefferburg) in the 15th century. The earth book recorded the area name Peperborg in 1436. This name also obviously points to the castle.

Flensburg has grown over decades, and the area of ​​the Dammhof with the castle area was also gradually built on. In 1908, at the address Dammhof number 5, there was the communal Wilhelm- and Elise Fischer-Volksbrausebad , a public bath in the classic sense. In 1966 it was closed. Today this property, as well as many other buildings in the area, belong to the Chamber of Crafts.

The Fleno grave in Fleno Park (photo 2013)

Legend of the knight Fleno

The legend tells that the mighty Duke of Schleswig Knud Laward once lived in his castle on Seagull Island near the trading town of Schleswig . With a hard hand he protected the peasants and merchants of his duchy against the enemies from without and the robbers from within. One day Knud Laward ordered the knight Fleno from Leck to settle on the east bank of the fjord . The fishermen there should obey him and he should protect them for it. Knight Fleno did as he was told and built a castle there. Under his protection, a number of other fishing huts were built on the banks of the fjord. Merchants and craftsmen also settled here. When the knight Fleno died, his castle came to the sovereign. The newly created place was named after the nobleman Fleno and his castle "Flensburg". So much for the legend.

Hans Nicolai Andreas Jensen also remarked that Fleno died on January 7th, 1130. He also stated: "This narrative of the origins of the city has nothing improbable per se, on the contrary there are some things that seem to confirm the correctness of this information, even with regard to the determination of the time [...]."

Today's historians in particular question the name of the legendary knight and thus also the name of the castle, so that the name Flensburg must have come about in a different way. Nevertheless, the legend is popular to this day and is constantly being told, for example the knight Fleno has been the mascot of the children's program at the Flensburg Short Film Festival since 2013 .

Fleno Park

The Fleno-Park at night (photo 2014)
The plaque with the presumed date of death of the knight Fleno above the Fleno grave

The Fleno-Park, which was named after the legendary knight, is located in the area below the Chamber of Crafts, on Süderfischerstraße. It extends over a length of about 30 meters. The public park was probably created from fallow land. The park is not one of the city's official parks. In the 1990s, the wall of the park facing Süderfischerstraße was built and the park was formed with the wall boundaries. The symbolic grave of the knight Fleno is located in the park. The grave was created by the Flensburg artist Christoph Wiegand . In addition to the planting, the small park is also characterized by a fountain. The park is the smallest of the Flensburg parks.

Web links

Commons : Dammhofareal  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Eva-Maria Bast and Jørn Precht: Flensburger Secrets , Überlingen 2016, page 26
  2. ^ Astrid Hansen: Flensburg: Small town history , there: Appendix. Timetable; accessed on: June 5, 2020
  3. ↑ List of monuments of excavation protection areas (as of September 22, 2015) , p. 31; accessed on: December 15, 2018
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Jakob Röschmann : Prehistory of the Flensburg district . The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 6. Neumünster 1963, page 95
  5. ^ A b Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 23
  6. ↑ a b Arthur Dähn: ring walls and tower hill. Medieval castles in Schleswig-Holstein, Husum 2001, page 20
  7. ↑ Jakob Röschmann : Prehistory of the Flensburg district . The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 6. Neumünster 1963, page 95 f.
  8. ↑ a b Jakob Röschmann : Prehistory of the Flensburg district . The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 6. Neumünster 1963, page 97
  9. ↑ Jakob Röschmann : Prehistory of the Flensburg district . The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 6. Neumünster 1963, page 96.
  10. ↑ See writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Hospital and Monastery of the Holy Spirit . Flensburg 1995, page 334.
  11. ^ A b Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg !. Flensburg 2009, article: Fleno
  12. ^ Flensburg - history of a border town. Edited by the Society for Flensburg City History. Flensburg 1966, page 18
  13. ↑ Entry on Flensburg Castle (St. Johannis) in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved September 16, 2015.
  14. ↑ a b Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Am Dammhof
  15. ^ A b Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg !. Flensburg 2009, article: Dammhof
  16. ↑ See money blessing for the Chamber of Crafts , June 29, 2011; accessed on: December 31, 2014
  17. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 279
  18. ↑ Gundula Hubrich-Messow: Sagen und Märchen aus Flensburg , Husum 1992, page 39
  19. ↑ Hans Nicolai Andreas Jensen in: New citizenship magazine with special consideration for the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg , Schleswig 1834, p. 789
  20. ↑ Flensburg Journal, “Rolle Vorwärts” in the 51 step cinema , from March 27, 2013; Accessed: January 5, 2015
  21. ^ Marsch und Förde, Fleno-Park , accessed on December 31, 2014
  22. ↑ See also: WIF, Chamber of Crafts ( Memento of December 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on: December 31, 2014
  23. ↑ a b c Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg !. Flensburg 2009, article: Fleno-Park
  24. ↑ a b Urban renewal in Flensburg. Eastern old town and Achter de Möhl, redevelopment areas from 1988 to 2009, published by: IHR redevelopment agency on behalf of the city of Flensburg , page 60 f.

Coordinates: 54 ° 47 ′ 4.2 ″  N , 9 ° 26 ′ 27.1 ″  E