Isern Purt

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Isern Purt (Iron Gate), Landwehr from 1263

In the south of Penzlin , in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , between the Klein Vielener See and Prillwitz there is the old Slavic Landwehr Isern Purt (Iron Gate). Lakes, ponds, moors, swamps always connected with water-bearing ditches and formerly fortified walls still represent the medieval demarcation of approx. 8000 meters in length. In 1263 the Landwehr was mentioned as existing.

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The water defense structures combined with two to four artificially created earth walls formed a border between the German colonists and the Slavic area of ​​the Retharians.

Isern Purt ramparts between the small town lake and the Zippelower Bachtal

Starting at Klein Vielener See , over the Wedensee to Teufelsbrück / Teufelsbruch, to the Kleiner Stadtsee, then on to the actual passage of the Iron Gate to the southeast, following the rosewood to Prillwitz, this defensive border was probably built in the Middle Ages. The water levels in the trenches were higher in the 13th and 14th centuries than they are now. 19th century literature writes about it: A national divide in front of the entrance to the famous land of the Retharians . A treatise of 1872 describes the entire old Gaugrenze of turning with eight border gates.

Passages through the Isern Purt Landwehr

In the Middle Ages, the Landwehr, also known as the Landhemme , could only be passed at the end of the Penzliner Kleiner Stadtsee. Here was the Isern Purt (Iron Gate), which gave the Landwehr its name. A second route through the Landwehr led from the Schwanen Heide from Peckatel over the Teufelsbrücke to Penzlin. A possible guarded bottleneck was here where the ramparts could be passed.

Moats and earth walls at Wedensee
Three walls and a double moat on the Wedensee

In the 12th century around 1160, the King of Rethra , the Radegast priests and the inhabitants of ancient Rethra fled from the invading army of the Saxon Duke Heinrich the Lion over the Devil's Bridge. In the paddock near Penzlin in the swamp they sank their holy golden Radegast statue in front of the Saxon army chasing them, according to a legend. The fleeing priests were not found and judged until near the distant Warin . The Slav prince Wernicke, an imperial count, fled in a different direction, through the Iron Gate, to his Grapenwerder castle on the right bank of the Great Penzlin city lake . The Wehdenfurt over the ramparts between Klein Vielener See and Wedensee in the Penzliner Zipfel, in today's course of the federal highway 193 , was not mentioned in the Middle Ages.

  • Passage in the Middle Ages through the Iron Gate south of the Small City Lake

  • Escape routes of the Wendenfürsten Wernicke, the king of the Retharians of his Radegastpriest

  • Wehdenfurt , 1786 Construction of a country road (B 193) in the Penzliner Zipfel on the Wedensee

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in a document of Mr. Nicolaus zu Werle from February 28, 1263 the "Hiserne Porte" is mentioned. State Main Archive MV
  2. ^ Wilhelm Gottlieb Beyer: The Landwehren and sanctuaries of the land of the Redarians . In: Document server of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Library (Hrsg.): Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology . tape 37 . Schwerin 1872.
  3. ↑ Dr. Niederhoffer: Folk tales of Mecklenburg .
  4. ^ WG Beyer: The Landwehr and the sanctuaries of the land of the Redarians. books.google.de, 1872, accessed on February 19, 2020 .

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