Lower castle Unseburg
| Lower castle Unseburg | ||
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| Alternative name (s): | Hunesburg, Hunesburch | |
| Creation time : | 900 to 1000 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Wall and moat remains | |
| Place: | Unseburg | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 55 '57 " N , 11 ° 30' 17.4" E | |
| Height: | 68 m above sea level NN | |
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The Niederungsburg Unseburg , formerly also called Hunesburg or Hunesburch , is the remainder of a Niederungsburg in the municipality of Unseburg in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt .
Unseburg was first mentioned in 909 as "castra Unnesburch", probably around 937 in the possession of the Magdeburg Benedictine monastery of St. Mauritius (Moritzkloster) of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg as a gift from Otto I. Similar names also indicate an earlier existence.
Unseburg Castle was built around 1213 by Count Walter v. Barby and Friedrich and Wilhelm v. Nurse's life expanded into a robber baron's nest. For this purpose, the main castle was surrounded by a 3 m thick and high wall, the corners of the complex were protected by strong defense towers and the entrance was provided with two fortified gate towers . The remains of the foundation walls of the southern of the two gate towers were preserved until a few years ago and served the Unseburg office as an ice cellar until the 20th century. In 1218 the castle was destroyed and in 1302 the castle wall with its ruins and part of the town were sold to the Riddagshausen monastery .
All that remains of the former castle are walls and the remains of a gate tower . The once of a square main castle with corner towers and a bailey existing castle was in the north and south of a Bodearm protected, to the west of a swamp.