Lippoldshöhle
The Lippoldshöhle is a cave in the Reuberg in the Leinebergland in Lower Saxony ( Germany ).
Geographical location
The Lippoldshöhle is located just under 2 km southwest of Brunkensen above the Glene valley , a south-western Leine tributary. It is located at the Glene Gorge between the Reuberg and Duinger Berg . From the car park on Glenetalstrasse, it is about a 5-minute walk away.
description
The crevices created by nature were artificially widened to form an earth stable and served as a fortress in the Middle Ages. But even before that, the cave and the nearby “Lying Stone” may have served religious purposes.
The first documentary mention dates from 1466, when the Hildesheim bishop moved "before that Lippoldshohl" to block a road. The time was marked by disputes about the area between Hohenbüchen and Brunkensen, so that the cave became the source of numerous legends from the area. The best-known legend is that of the robber Lippold, which is still alive today in the local history of Brunkensen: once a year on Ascension Day, the robber Lippold rides into town and opens the festivities around the Lippold cave.
The cave consists of several chambers connected by passages and a natural crevice, the so-called "chimney", which originally served as an entrance. The rooms are known as the “kitchen”, “parlor” and “prison”. Numerous beam holes in the rock wall indicate wooden additions.
The entrance to the cave is now via the kitchen or via a steel staircase to the slightly higher corridor to the prison. Inside the cave, a steel ladder helps to overcome the height difference in the main passage.
See also
literature
- Walter Düerkop: The Lippoldshöhle near Alfeld (Leine) In: Hans Meyer-Roscher (Hrsg.): Unser Hildesheimer Land , Volume 3. Hrsg. Von, Hildesheim 1979.
- Margret Zimmermann, Hans Kensche: Castles and palaces in Hildesheimer Land . Hildesheim, 2001, pp. 32-33
- Joachim Lehrmann : Robber barons between Heide, Harz and Weser - Forays into the Middle Ages, illustrated according to the sources , Lehrte 2007, ISBN 978-3-9803642-6-3 , pp. 125–129.
Web links
- Entry by Gudrun Pischke and Stefan Eismann on Lippoldshöhle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 58.9 ″ N , 9 ° 45 ′ 19.2 ″ E