Deutschordensburg
From the 13th century onwards, numerous religious castles were built on the territory of the Teutonic Order . They served the mission as a military base and monastery .
Location and conservation
Well-known order castles were created by the Brothers of the Sword and the Teutonic Order in the area of the southeastern Baltic coast . Their distribution area extends from West Prussia through East Prussia , Lithuania and Latvia to Estonia . Typical of the Ordensburgen is the construction in the style of the north German brick Gothic and the complex as a moated castle , since the castles were mostly in the lowlands and were therefore relatively unprotected.
Some of the order castles have been preserved to this day (or have been rebuilt) and are now used for tourism - the best-known example is the order castle Marienburg an der Nogat , some castles were misappropriated (industrial use of the castle Labiau in today's Russian Polessk , in the northern part of the former East Prussia), many castles survived as ruins ( Balga in Russia) and some castles have been completely destroyed ( Königsberg ).
In today's Poland
- Bütow Castle in Bytów
- Ordensburg Marienburg in Malbork
- Rastenburg Castle in Kętrzyn
- Marienwerder Castle in Kwidzyn
- Olsztyn Castle in Olsztyn
- Ordensburg Rheden in Radzyń Chełmiński
- Neidenburg (Ordensburg) in Nidzica
- Angerburg Castle in Węgorzewo
- Morag in Morąg
- Ortelsburg Castle in Szczytno
- Heilsberg Castle in Lidzbark Warmiński
- Lauenburg Castle in Lębork
In today's exclave Kaliningrad and in Lithuania
- Balga in Wesjoloje
- Koenigsberg Castle in Kaliningrad
- Insterburg Castle in Chernyakhovsk
- Ragnit Castle in Neman
- Georgenburg Castle in Otradnoye
- Labiau Castle in Labiau
- Memelburg in Klaipėda
- Tapiau Castle in Gwardeisk
- Ordensburg Tilsit
- Ordensburg Brandenburg in Uschakowo
In what is now Latvia
- Castle of the Livonian Order in Rīga
- Deutschordensburg Bauske in Bauska
- Ordensburg Lemsal in Limbaži
- Sword Brothers Castle Segewold in Sigulda
- Ordensburg Wenden in Cēsis
- Castle of the Livonian Order of Windau in Ventspils
- Deutschordensburg Dondangen in Dundaga
- Ordensburg Ludsen
- Ordensburg Doblen
- Burtneck Castle
- Ordensburg Rositten in Rēzekne
- Ordensburg Alswangen in Alsunga
- Ordensburg Durbe in Durbe
- Ordensburg Grobin
- Selburg
- Order castle Trikaten
- Ordensburg Wolkenburg
- Ordensburg Rodenpois in Ropaži
- Ordensburg Ermes in Ērģeme
In today's Estonia
- Helmets ( Helmet )
- Karksi ( Karkus )
- Lais Castle
- Lihula ( Leal )
- Maasilinn ( Soneburg )
- Daugavgrīva ( Dünamünde )
- Narva ( Narva )
- Paide ( Weissenstein )
- Põltsamaa ( Oberpahlen )
- Pärnu ( Pärnu )
- Poide ( Peude )
- Rakvere ( Wesenberg )
- Tallinn ( Reval )
- Tarvastu ( Tarwast )
- Toolse ( Tolsburg )
- Vasknarva ( Nyslott )
- Viljandi ( Fellin )
literature
- Karl Emil Gebauer : Time of the construction of various castles of the Teutonic Order in Prussia. According to the provisions of the history of Prussia by J. Voigt . In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Volume 10, Königsberg 1850, pp. 470-472.
- Johann Christian Wutzke : Remarks about the possession of Prussia, which started from the waterways. About the origin of the castles and fortresses, their purpose, construction and their current condition . G. Reimer, Königsberg 1836.