Dornburg (Flögeln)
| Dornburg | ||
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| Creation time : | probably 11th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, island location, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Fowling | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 40 '4.9 " N , 8 ° 48' 27.4" E | |
| Height: | 0.5 m below sea level | |
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The Dornburg is an Outbound Turmhügelburg (moth) of about 10.0 x 15.0 m in size, which was once an island ( island castle ) in Flögelner lay lake. According to old reports, a dam is said to have led to the castle, which is now on a peninsula . Flögeln is located in the Elbe-Weser triangle near Bad Bederkesa in the Cuxhaven district in Lower Saxony .
Investigations carried out in 1975 show that large amounts of sand were heaped up on the peat of the lake bed to build the moth . The bottom of the lake was rounded off with a silo tube in order to look for finds and piling, so that a dendrochronological determination could be made using wood samples . The island is a central castle hill around which, especially in the south and south-west, directed towards the place, was a sub-area surrounded by a palisade , which was seven to eight meters away from the foot of the hill.
The core of the finds consisted of medieval ceramics and pet bones. The oldest ceramics can be dated to the 11th, the youngest to the 15th century. In contrast to the excavation at the nearby Vollhof, where only local ceramics were found, a proportion of Rhenish imported ceramics is noticeable at the Dornburg . Next to it were a grindstone fragment made of basalt lava , a chunk of floss and grindstones .
The high number of bone finds and the temporal spread of the pottery indicate, contrary to the earlier held view that the Dornburg was a place of refuge , on permanent habitation by the Knights of Flögeln. The knights are documented from 1144 to 1375. In 1375 Heinrich von Flögeln went to Hamburg and became a citizen there. The church, which apparently received the Dornburg into the 15th century, took over ownership.
After the hiatus from the middle of the 5th century - as a result of the population emigrating in the course of the settlement of England by the Saxons - the Geestinsel on the west side was repopulated in the 8th century. The place Flögeln, on the other hand, did not provide finds until the 10th or 11th century. Due to the dating of the ceramics, there were probably ministerials in Flögeln as early as the 11th century .
literature
- H. W. Zimmermann: Archaeological studies on the early to high medieval settlement in the Elbe-Weser triangle. 1976 In: Guide to prehistoric and protohistoric monuments. Vol. 30, ISBN 3-8053-0145-6 .
