Pipinsburg (Osterode)

Pipinsburg
Castle type :	Spurburg
Conservation status:	Ditches, walls
Geographical location	51 ° 44 '29 " N , 10 ° 12' 53" E Coordinates: 51 ° 44 '29 " N , 10 ° 12' 53" E
Height:	242 m above sea level NN

Sketch of the location by Carl Schuchhardt around 1916, Söse subsequently colored in blue

The Pipinsburg (also Pippinsburg ) is a former fortification on a mountain spur that protrudes about four kilometers northwest of Osterode am Harz into the valley of the Söse near Förste .

description

The complex is one of the most important prehistoric and early historical fortifications in southern Lower Saxony in the Harz Mountains . The rocky slopes of the spur drop steeply into the valley floor and provide natural protection to the north, west and east. The eastern flank has been torn open by a quarry, which means that important parts of the castle have been lost. The plateau is surrounded by a trench in the shape of a horseshoe, both ends of which open to the Söse.

history

Archaeological finds show that a settlement already existed here during the early Bronze Age . It is believed that the people who were buried in the Lichtenstein Cave, three kilometers away, lived here during the late Bronze Age .

The medieval castle was first mentioned in 1134 and destroyed in 1365. Another mention, which is rather improbable, dates to the year 1134 and mentions knight Werner von Berckefeldt , who lives on the Pipinsburg and was a castellan in Windhausen . The noble family of the Lords of Berckefeldt therefore considered both the Windhausen Castle and the Pipinsburg as their property. Documented military and trade routes are in the vicinity of the Pipinsburg. The Harzrandstrasse, the "via regia" or "Thüringer Strasse" runs through Nordhausen, Scharzfeld and Osterode in the direction of Seesen-Hildesheim. In Osterode it crossed the " old Harzstrasse ", which led from Northeim via the Upper Harz to Goslar. Until the year 1843 the Osterode office moved in on and next to the castle of the Rottzehnt, the corresponding catchment area was then called Burggrund .

literature

Uwe Ohainski, Jürgen Udolph: The place names of the district of Osterode. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-89534-370-6 , pp. 125–127.
Klaus Gehmlich: field names in the district of Osterode am Harz. Volume 4, M – Sp, Papierflieger Verlag, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-86948-203-3 , p. 93.
Ernst Andreas Friedrich : The Pipinsburg near Osterode. In: If stones could talk. Volume I, Landbuch-Verlag, Hannover 1989, pp. 47-49, ISBN 3-7842-0397-3 .

Web links

Commons : Pipinsburg - collection of images, videos and audio files

Entry by Stefan Eismann on Pipinsburg near Osterode in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Pipinsburg near Osterode
Pictures of the Pipinsburg

Individual evidence

↑ Ina Begemann: Palynological studies on the history of the environment and settlement in the southwestern Harz foreland (including geochemical findings) , dissertation on obtaining a doctorate from the mathematical and natural science faculties of the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen 2003, page 18, web link (pdf , 2890kB)
^ Georg Max: History of the Principality of Grubenhagen. First part . Schmorl & v. Seefeld, Hanover 1862, p. 78 .

[1] Ina Begemann: Palynological studies on the history of the environment and settlement in the southwestern Harz foreland (including geochemical findings) , dissertation on obtaining a doctorate from the mathematical and natural science faculties of the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen 2003, page 18, web link (pdf , 2890kB)

[2] Georg Max: History of the Principality of Grubenhagen. First part . Schmorl & v. Seefeld, Hanover 1862, p. 78 .