Mögstedt

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Mögstedt
Creation time : not clear
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Castle stable, moats and wall remains
Place: Ringsberg
Geographical location 54 ° 47 '31.9 "  N , 9 ° 34' 31.4"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 47 '31.9 "  N , 9 ° 34' 31.4"  E
Mögstedt (Schleswig-Holstein)
Mögstedt

Mögstedt is a lost moated castle of the municipality Ringsberg in the district of Schleswig-Flensburg , in the state of Schleswig-Holstein . From the castle, which is located in a wooded area, moats and wall remains have been preserved.

background

It is unclear when the castle was first mentioned and how it was destroyed. The local researcher Hans Nicolai Andreas Jensen already mentioned the castle square of the former noble court in one of his books in 1841. The local researcher Jakob Röschmann classified the castle as a former refuge around 1960 . He also found that the Burgplatz was locally called "Mögstedt" by old farmers.

The Burgplatz lies within a forest called Süderholz, which is north of Gremmerup and south of the village of Munkbrarup . Süderholz consists not only of its trees, but also of forest meadows, pools of water, meltwater channels and streams. In the south-east of the forest there is a peninsula-like area, which is formed by a watercourse area coming from the north-east and one coming from the north-west and each meeting in the north. A forest path that begins at the settlement at the Süderholz junction ( Lage ) divides the peninsula into two halves. To the east of the aforementioned forest path is the protected Burgplatz ( Lage ). The peninsula is also artificially constricted in the south by two wide ditches, one coming from the east and the other from the west.

To the north of the peninsula, near the aforementioned Burgplatz, is a low wall running from east to west, which has a shallow ditch to the south. The wall should have a length of 75 meters, be four meters wide and have a height of 0.60 meters. The width of the Burgplatz north of the wall is approximately 100 meters. The length from north to south is approximately 160 meters. In 1930 Johannes Stüdtje from Munkbrarup reported that an accidental excavation on the castle area found a paved area 40 centimeters deep in a horizontal position and exposed about one square meter of this. At another location, two stone slabs with the approximate dimensions of 20 × 20 centimeters were found.

legend

There is said to be a golden cradle in a fountain on Burgplatz . - The legend apparently does not tell how the cradle was sunk in the well. Buried golden cradles as a legend motif are not uncommon, which has even led to local municipal coats of arms with golden cradles in other places. In a similar legend from North Rhine-Westphalia about the Tomburg there , a deceased child and the mother's grief are the reason for the sinking of the golden cradle in the well. According to a regional legend, the next buried, golden cradle is to be found near the royal castle on the Schlei .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jakob Röschmann: Prehistory of the Flensburg district . The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 6. Neumünster 1963, pages 89 and 92
  2. ↑ Hans Nicolai Andreas Jensen : Attempt at church statistics on the Duchy of Schleswig , Volume 3, Flensburg 1841, page 957
  3. ↑ Jakob Röschmann: Prehistory of the Flensburg district . The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 6. Neumünster 1963, page 92
  4. ↑ Jakob Röschmann: Prehistory of the Flensburg district . The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 6. Neumünster 1963, pages 521 and 92
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Jakob Röschmann: Prehistory of the Flensburg district . The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 6. Neumünster 1963, page 521
  6. ↑ Hans Nicolai Andreas Jensen : Attempt at church statistics on the Duchy of Schleswig , Volume 3, Flensburg 1841, page 957
  7. ↑ Location according to the map attached to the book: Jakob Röschmann: Prehistory of the Flensburg district . The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 6. Neumünster 1963
  8. ↑ See for example: Sagas from Brandenburg - The golden cradle , Sagen.at: The Bofferdanger Moor near Oberkerschen , The legend of Castle Insul , The "golden cradle" of Groß-Hansdorf , Nikolaus Gredt : Sagenschatz des Luxemburger Land , Berlin 2013, No. 700 ff and Matthias Rickling : Churches, wars, golden treasures: More fabulous things from the Osnabrück region , Erfurt 2014, p. 96 f.
  9. ↑ See Groß Schwechten and Badingen (Bismark)
  10. ↑ Helmut Fischer : Sagen aus dem Land an Rhein und Sieg , Erfurt 2011, p. 77 as well as Joseph Pesch : Geschichtliches und Migrations , 1901; Retrieved on: March 15, 2017
  11. ↑ The legend of the royal castle , accessed on: March 15, 2017