Kaaksburg
| Kaaksburg | ||
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 Memorial stone in the wooded ring wall |
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| Alternative name (s): | nd. Kaaksborch | |
| Creation time : | 8th or 9th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Earth ring wall preserved, remains of trenches visible | |
| Place: | Kaaks , district Kaaksburg | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 59 '46.7 " N , 9 ° 29' 17.9" E | |
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Kaaksburg is a district of Kaaks in Holstein north of Itzehoe. The ring wall castle of the same name located there dates from the 8th or 9th century. Its oldest known documentary mention (at least under this name) comes from the years 1560–1576.
history
Not much is known about their origin and function. The oval-shaped ring wall having a diameter of 80 or 100 m and a height of about 5 was raised from dark earth m, while the bottom is sandy in the area, was therefore assumed that the material from flowing past in the southeast Bekau originates. At least to the north and east, the ring wall was also surrounded by a moat . In the west, the Mehlbeker Mühlenbach, which flows into the Bekau, also flows along.
At that time, the Bekau was navigable at least as far as the castle and was influenced by the tides until it was dyed; the surroundings of the castle were still swampy and boggy and at times flooded. It was therefore assumed that the castle was built in this strategically favorable position to control the waterway. According to a folk legend, it is said to have served as a base for pirates - sometimes Klaus Störtebeker is talking about it.
At least one iron ax was found near the castle complex by the end of the 19th century. At the beginning of the 1930s Hermann Hofmeister carried out excavations at the castle, the results of which he published in the excavation report published in 1932 under the title “Urholstein”.
While the Chaussee or country road between Itzehoe and Schenefeld used to bypass the ring wall to the east, today's L 127 runs through the middle of the ring. A memorial stone by the now wooded wall reminds of the former Kaaksburg.
literature
- Walter Fels: On the banks of the Bekau. Chronicle of the Kaaks community. Itzehoe 1990.
- Heinrich Handelmann : The Kaaksburg on the Bekau, and the Kringberg on the Breitenfelde . In: ZSHG 4 (1873), pp. 20 to 23 (20 to 22).
- Heinrich Handelmann: The Kaaksburg near Kaaks (parish Hohenaspe) . In: ZSHG 11 (1881), p. 244 f.
- Heinrich Handelmann: The Kaaksburg near Kaaks (parish Hohenaspe) . In: ZSHG 12 (1882), p. 378 f.
- Hermann Hofmeister : Urholstein . JJ Augustin publishing house , Glückstadt, 1932
- Otto Neumann: A few things about Kaaksburg and Gut Mehlbeck . In: Steinburger Jahrbuch 1985 , pp. 134-138.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ See Wolfgang Laur : Historisches Ortsnamelexikon von Schleswig-Holstein , 2nd edition, Neumünster 1992, p. 369.
- ↑ See the report in Nordischer Kurier No. 125 of June 1, 1931.
- ↑ See also Hermann Hofmeister : The excavations in the Kaaksburg , in: Nordischer Kurier No. 154 of July 4, 1931.