Ilow Castle
| Ilow Castle | ||
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 Remains of the castle ramparts |
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| Alternative name (s): | Ilenburg | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, remains of a wall | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Neuburg -Ilow | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 57 '13.1 " N , 11 ° 37' 48.3" E | |
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The castle Ilow or Ilenburg is an Outbound castle on the Wallenberg near the local part of the municipality Ilow Neuburg in nordwestmecklenburg . The area of the castle was about three and a half hectares. Today it is used as arable land. In the southwest you can still see the remains of the former fortification. Surface finds made it possible to locate a suburb north-east of the castle wall. A sign points to the castle. Ilow Castle dates from the late Slavic period and belonged to the low castles type .
An early Slavic hilltop castle of the same name is located 1.3 km to the east in a forest. This castle is called Ilow II Castle in scientific literature .
history
The name "Ilow" is probably derived from the Slavic word Ilu , which means something like clay or loam and could refer to the loam mining carried out in the area. The castle was one of the state castles of the Obotrites . It served for protection and as the seat of power in the vicinity. During Henry the Lion's war against the Obodriten prince Niklot it was set on fire and abandoned. Heinrich the Lion had it rebuilt as a border fortress in 1164. Niklot's son Pribislaw tried to recapture the castle, but initially failed. It was not until 1166 that the Abodrites under Pribislaw stormed the fortress with massive support from Pomeranian nobles and then burned it down. After his reinstatement, Pribislaw rebuilt the castle. It was probably still inhabited under Johann I von Mecklenburg . Around 1298 the castle was mentioned again under Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg and shortly afterwards it was abandoned. One reason for this could have been the new construction of Neuburg Castle .
literature
- Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : About the Wendish princely castle Ilow. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 7, 1842, ISSN 0259-7772 , pp. 156-168, also on the web .
