Ordensburg Mohrungen
| Ordensburg Mohrungen | ||
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| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Morąg | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 54 '36 " N , 19 ° 55' 36" E | |
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The order castle Mohrungen ( Polish Zamek w Morągu ) is a former order castle in Morąg (German: Mohrungen) in Warmia .
history
Around 1280 the Teutonic Order built a first wooden fortification as a caretaker's seat, where a small town was founded in 1327. It is documented for 1331 that the castle was the seat of a bailiff .
During the armed conflict between the Order of Knights and Poland, the castle was conquered by the Polish army in 1410 and 1414. From 1454 the castle belonged to the Prussian Confederation , which rebelled against the order . Under the leadership of Heinrich Reuss von Plauen , the order recaptured the castle in 1461. During the equestrian war in 1520, Poles again conquered Mohrungen and sacked it.
After the secularization of the religious order, the Duchy of Prussia was founded . As a result of the Treaty of Kraków , Mohrungen came to the Burgrave Peter zu Dohna in 1525 as a pledge .
In the 16th century, Peter zu Dohna rebuilt the castle under the direction of the architect Blasius Berwart. The castle was equipped with a new gate, the interior of which is decorated with a renaissance ceiling.
At the end of the 16th century, the zu Dohna built a new residence within the city walls, the Dohna-Schlösschen Mohrungen , and the castle was neglected. In 1616 the main tower collapsed.
After the region was annexed by communist Poland in 1945, the north-west wing was used as a court and archive building.
Building
The castle with a trapezoidal floor plan was approx. 55 × 75 m in size and in front of the city to the southwest. The castle gate was in the northwest wing. In front of the castle wings was a parcham (kennel) with a southwest corner tower. In the south of the castle there was a lake that no longer exists today.
Web links
Bibliography
- Christofer Hermann: Castles in the Order Land . Bergstadtverlag, 2006, p. 194-195 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Vogelsang: data on the city and district of Mohrungen. www.mohrungen.eu, accessed on October 18, 2019 .
- ↑ The Ordensburg - East Prussia. Retrieved October 18, 2019 .