Derenburg (Palatinate)

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The Palatinate Derenburg was a royal palace north of the area of ​​today's Derenburg in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

View from Anisberg, the former location of the Palatinate on Derenburg

The Palatinate Derenburg was localized in 1991 by systematic overflights of the area on the Anisberg. It was on a spur of the terrain north of the village, surrounded by the Holtemme . Due to vegetation features, two moats in a bailey and the wall of the main castle were discovered. The main castle was initially surrounded by a ring-shaped stone wall, which was later replaced by a polygonal wall with five-meter-thick corner towers.

history

The first documentary mention of the Palatinate comes from October 11, 937, when Otto I was in his second year of reign and stayed in Taremburch . The Otto III. Abbess Mathilde von Quedlinburg , who was appointed imperial administrator because of his move to Italy , held a court day in Derenburg in 993. The Ottonian emperors often stayed in the Derenburger Pfalz. In 1008, Heinrich II left the town of Derenburg to Abbess Sophie von Gandersheim, which lost its political importance. In the period that followed, the Gandersheim monastery enfeoffed the Counts of Regenstein, among others, with the rule of Derenburg. As a result, the history of Derenburg was linked to that of Regenstein and her counts for centuries.

literature

  • Günther Binding : German royal palaces, From Charlemagne to Friedrich II. (765–1240). Darmstadt 1996, ISBN 3-534-12548-7 .
  • P. Grimm: German Royal Palaces II. 1965
  • E. Heinze: The development of the Pfgft. Saxony. In: I. Saxony-Anhalt. 1925
  • Alexander Thon: Barbarossaburg, Kaiserpfalz, Königspfalz or Casimirschloss? Studies on the relevance and validity of the term "Pfalz" in the High Middle Ages using the example of (Kaisers-) Lautern. In: Kaiserslauter Yearbook for Palatinate History and Folklore. Kaiserslautern 1, 2001, pp. 109-144, ISSN  1619-7283
  • Alexander Thon: ... ut nostrum regale palatium infra civitatem vel in burgo eorum non hedificent. Studies on the relevance and validity of the term “Palatinate” for the exploration of castles of the 12th and 13th centuries. In: Castle building in the 13th century. Edited by the Wartburg Society for Research into Castles and Palaces in conjunction with the Germanic National Museum. Research on castles and palaces. Volume 7, Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 2002, ISBN 3-422-06361-7 , pp. 45–72

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ RI II 1, 1 No. 72

Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 29.1 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 53.9 ″  E