Dersaburg

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Wooded ridge with the Dersaburg

Dersaburg is the name of a castle complex that existed in the early Middle Ages and the High Middle Ages on the north-western edge of the Dammer Mountains .

Location and structure

View of the ring wall

The remains of the fortification are now in the municipality of Holdorf (Handorf district) in the Lower Saxony district of Vechta .

The Dersaburg is a ring wall system on a mountain spur running in an east-west direction , which rises 14 to 15 meters high above two stream valleys. The oval ring wall measures 80 × 50 meters. It is surrounded by a 4 to 9 meter deep trench. In addition, there is a complex system of fortifications through further ramparts and section fortifications, which speaks for a multi-phase expansion. The earlier appearance of the fortification is not known, as no building remains have been preserved and there have not yet been any systematic excavations in what is now the wooded area.

history

The Dersaburg was first mentioned in a document in 785 and was then located in the Saxon Gau Dersagau , the center of which it formed. Since the area inhabited by Angrivarians in the early Middle Ages was called "Dersia" before 785, it can be assumed that there were forerunners of the castle before the 8th century. By the 13th century at the latest, Dersaburg belonged to the Osnabrück Monastery .

In the time of the Christianization of the Sachsenland, a legend takes place with the title The white lady of the Dersaburg . The plot was turned into a drama in 2007 by the Dammer writer Bernd Kessens .

  • Information board at the foot of the Dersaburg

  • Ascent to the ring wall of the Dersaburg

  • Deep trench of the Dersaburg

  • Information board at the castle site

  • A cross erected in 2007 to commemorate the white lady from Dersaburg

literature

  • Leopold von Ledebur: Dersia . In: ders .: Critical illumination of some points in the campaigns of Charlemagne against the Saxons and Slavs . Ernst Siegfried Mittler, Berlin / Posen / Bromberg 1829, pp. 100–110 ( online )
  • Carl Heinrich Nieberding : The Gau Dersaburg . In: ders .: History of the former Niederstift Münster and the adjacent counties . CH Fauvel, Vechta 1840, pp. 36–55 ( online )
  • Franz Böcker: History of Damme and the Gau Dersaburg , JP Bachem, Cologne 1887 ( online )

Web links

Commons : Dersaburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry by Frank Both zu Dersaburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The white lady from Dersaburg on holdorf.de (PDF; 49KB).

Coordinates: 52 ° 33 '12 "  N , 8 ° 10' 52"  E