Ordensburg Hasenpoth
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_-_Uldis_Osis_-_Panoramio.jpg) Ordensburg Hasenpoth |
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| Creation time : | First mentioned in 1397 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Aizpute | |
| Geographical location | 56 ° 43 '15.2 " N , 21 ° 35' 43.4" E | |
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The ruin of Hasenpoth Castle ( Latvian Aizputes ordeņa pils , Latin castrum Asenputten ) is located near Aizpute (Baltic German Hasenpoth ) in historic Courland , Latvia . The castle goes back to an order castle of the Livonian order . The castle ruin has been a Latvian historical monument since 1998.
history
The place was first mentioned as an Asenputt when Courland was partitioned in 1253 and was probably the site of a Curonian hill fort . The construction of the order castle, located on the left bank of the river Tebber, began in 1249 under order master Dietrich von Grüningen and served to secure the southern part of the military road from Riga to Goldingen . For 1341 Hasenpoth is mentioned as belonging to the Goldingen Commandery and is expressly referred to as the Order's castle in 1397 and 1430. Hasenpoth Castle gained importance as a border castle between the Order and the Bishopric, the bishop maintained his own castle here, so that these castles were called Bischofs-Hasenpoth and Order-Hasenpoth to distinguish them.
During the time of the Duchy of Courland , the castle was restored. During the Second Northern War , Swedish troops destroyed the castle and Duke Jacob restored it in 1665. In 1682 the castle became the property of Michael Friedrich Nold. The castle lost the character of a fortified building and was expanded as a mansion.
Until the agrarian reform of 1920 Hasenpoth Castle was owned by the Grothuss family. In 1939 the castle was adapted to the needs of a school and used until the mid-1970s, after which it was left to decay. In 1990 restoration work began and the walls that were still standing were secured.
architecture
In the ground plan, the castle forms a square, the two sides of which are expanded and have a dense row of buildings that are narrow compared to the castle courtyard. The barrel vault in the basement of the castle has been partially preserved. The small rooms were mainly intended as accommodation for the guard and as storage rooms, but the large, wide courtyard served as a storage area for the trucks that stopped here.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Karl Woldemar von Löwis of Menar: Burgenlexikon für Alt-Livland . Walters and Rapa, Riga 1922, p. 62-63 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ www.pilis.lv. Archived from the original ; accessed on October 2, 2014 .
- ^ Armin Tuulse: The castles in Estonia and Latvia (= negotiations of the Estonian learned society . Volume 33 ). Õpetatud Eesti Seltsi Toimetused, S. 225 .