Lilleborg
| Lilleborg | |
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 Lilleborg ruins |
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| Creation time : | 12th Century |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg |
| Conservation status: | ruin |
| Place: | Bornholm |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 7 '8 " N , 14 ° 53' 51" E |
Lilleborg (Danish for "little castle") was a mid-12th century as a royal mounting in today's forest area Almindingen in the center of the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm built castle . Today it is a ruin.
history
The castle was built in the middle of the 12th century in place of an earlier royal seat, the Viking fortress Gamleborg , not even a kilometer away , which was abandoned around the same time. It is located on a 16 meter high hill that was completely surrounded by Lake Borresø in the Middle Ages . Access to the castle was only possible via a drawbridge secured by a tower. That way, Lilleborg was easy to defend.
With its construction, the Danish king wanted Hammershus Castle , from which the powerful Archbishop Eskil von Lund ruled most of the island, to oppose his own claim to Bornholm. Lilleborg was much smaller, but easier to defend than Gamleborg. As a builder come Sven III. Grathe , Knut V. Magnussen or Waldemar I. are possible. Coins were found from the latter two.
The power struggle between church and king also led to the destruction of the castle: In 1259, Prince Jaromar II of Rügen came to the aid of Archbishop Jakob Erlandsen, who had been imprisoned by King Christoph I , and burned Lilleborg. However, coins were found after this time, which suggests that the castle was still inhabited after the destruction.
On a stone of the ruined castle, bowls can be seen that were on the stone before it was used as the building material for the castle.
