Kansteinburg
| Kansteinburg | ||
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 The Kanstein with the location of the former castle. Today part of the quarry. |
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| Alternative name (s): | Hindenburg on the Kanstein | |
| Creation time : | 8th to 9th centuries | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Castle stable, wall and wall remains | |
| Construction: | Sandstone cuboid | |
| Place: | Langelsheim | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 56 '26.3 " N , 10 ° 21' 1.4" E | |
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The Kansteinburg (also called Hindenburg auf dem Kanstein) near Langelsheim is an abandoned hilltop castle from the Carolingian era (8th to 9th centuries) on the Kanstein around 30 m above the river valley of the Innerste at the exit from the Harz.
Presumably the castle was built as a stage station and refuge . It was located in the immediate vicinity of the ford of the "Alten Straße" or the "Königsweg" ( Hellweg between Hildesheim and Werla ) through the Innerste and near the meeting point with the Rennstieg or Fastweg from the Harz Mountains. The two important traffic routes met near Langelsheim.
The castle was first mentioned in the 13th century. By then, however, it had lost its meaning. Large parts of the systems have since disappeared due to limestone mining in a quarry on Kanstein.
Archaeological evidence has been found to be a square main castle at an oblique angle with a 1.4 to 1.6 m thick and 4 m high circular wall of 130 m (east-west) by 150 m (north-south). The total length was approx. 450 m. The wall was built with sandstone blocks. In front of it was a berm up to 4 m wide and a 5 m wide and approx. 2.5 m deep moat . In the west, directly in front of the castle wall, was the steep slope towards the Innerstetal.
The castle had two gates. The gate in the northeast enabled access from the plateau and that in the southeast from the Innerstetal. At the south-east gate, the castle wall was drawn inwards in an arch shape, creating a gate lane approx. 6 m long and 4.5 m wide, at the end of which the actual gate was located. Inside the castle was a great hall of approximately 10 m by 20 m. Its approx. 80 cm thick wall has no access interruption, which speaks for a higher access via stairs.
In addition, there was probably an outer bailey , but only in the north about 70 m in front of the main castle as a rampart and trench with a length of about 100 m.
Around 1311, a smelter for Harz metals is mentioned at the foot of the castle on the Innerste. Copper ores from Goslar's Rammelsberg were probably smelted there from 1285 to 1615.
In the castle, two strictly stylized bone crucifixes only about three centimeters in size were found, probably from the Carolingian era, which are now in the Goslar City Museum . A model of the castle is in the local history museum of the town of Langelsheim.
literature
- Wolf-Dieter Steinmetz: Archeology and history of the Carolingian-Ottonian castle on the Kanstein near Langelsheim . Publications of the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum 105, ISBN 3-927939-63-3
- Hans-Günther Griep: The district of Goslar - its cities and villages , Elm-Verlag, Cremlingen, 1988, ISBN 3-927060-00-3
Web links
- Entry by Stefan Eismann zu Kanstein in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- The Kansteinburg as a school project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Günther Griep: Neuwerk 1186 - 1986 , Goslar, 1986, page 26
- ↑ a b c d E. Stolte, EH Stolte: Langelsheim , Verlag Pieper, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, 1982, ISBN 3-923 605-90-0
- ↑ Hans-Günther Griep (Ed.): Die Goslarer Chronik des HC Brandes from 1729 , Goslar, 1994, commentary on page 41
- ↑ Torsten Schröpfer: Treasure trove - interesting facts about the West Harz mining and metallurgy , Upper Harz History and Museum Association, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, 2000, p. 358, ISBN 3-923605-08-0
- ↑ Otto Thielemann : Urgeschichte am Nordharz , Goslar, 1977, self-published by the Goslar History and Heritage Protection Association