Müggenburg (Salem)
| Müggenburg | ||
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| Creation time : | Medieval | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, remains of soil | |
| Standing position : | Noble | |
| Construction: | Truss | |
| Place: | Salem | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 40 ′ 31.7 " N , 10 ° 48 ′ 46.6" E | |
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The Müggenburg is an abandoned medieval aristocratic seat in Salem in the Duchy of Lauenburg district in Schleswig-Holstein .
history
The well-preserved remains of the tower hill castle (Motte) are on the western edge of the Salem Moor nature reserve . It was a double castle complex consisting of a castle keep and bailey , by a wall and moat were protected. The first excavations took place here in the middle of the 19th century by high school students from the Lauenburg School of Academics in Ratzeburg . The first owners are evidenced by documents in particular from the bishops of Ratzeburg, it was the Lords of Salem (approx. 1200 to approx. 1355) and then the Lords of Plön by marriage (until 1367) who passed the motte and the property to the dukes of Sachsen-Lauenburg sold. An unearthed seal suggests that the castle briefly served as the aristocratic residence of the von Hasenkop knightly family . The destruction of the castle is dated to the middle of the 14th century based on the excavation results. Further excavations in 1951 by the Lauenburg district archivist Dr. Kurt Langenheim revealed that the tower foundation measured 6 × 6 m and the half-timbered building must have been present. Langenheim immediately saw the submerged village of Klein-Salem , which was already mentioned in the Ratzeburg tithe register of 1230.
literature
- Werner Neugebauer: Castle research in Holstein. In: The car . 1955, pp. 21-37 (pp. 33 ff.).
Web links
- private page Müggenburg at The Instant Trout Company
Individual evidence
- ^ Langenheim was previously director of the West Prussian Provincial Museum in Danzig