Quitzerower Castle
| Quitzerow Castle | ||
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 Tower hill of Quitzerower Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Demmin Tower Hill | |
| Creation time : | middle Ages | |
| Castle type : | Location, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, castle hill | |
| Place: | Demmin , Quitzerow settlement | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 55 '6.7 " N , 13 ° 6' 2.8" E | |
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The Quitzerower Castle , also motte Demmin called, is a Outbound medieval motte (Motte) in the outer northeastern area of Demmin in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . The preserved tower hill is located immediately south of the road from Demmin to Kletzin , near Quitzerow settlement near the junction to Quitzerow.
history
The Quitzerower castle belonged to the eastern Landwehr of the town of Demmin that have become part of the extreme Demminer fortification along the Pensiner trench from the Tolense at Siedenbrünzow to Peenetal at Pensin went. Little information about the castle has come down to us from the city's books: It was inhabited by a castle man. In 1577 the castle man was called Geyger and received two shillings of beer money from the city. In 1578 the city built a new oven for him. In 1592 the castle got a new furnace. In 1609 the roof of the castle was re-covered with 4,000 tiles. The tin button on the top of the tower cost 6 marks back then.
During the Thirty Years' War the castle was badly damaged and the northern Burgwiek, the farmyard, burned down. In 1663 the city of Demmin decided to demolish the Quitzerower Castle.
investment
The area is 35 m long and 25 m wide. It is surrounded by a dry, 6 m wide ditch. The steep hill has a height of 5 m. Field stones lie on the embankments.
The plateau is 12 m long and 10 m wide. On top of it is a dome 1 m high, 9 m long and 8 m wide.
literature
- Karl Goetze: History of the city of Demmin edited on the basis of the Demmin Council Archives, the Stollesche Chronik and other sources. Demmin 1903, reprint 1997, ISBN 3-89557-077-X , pp. 28-29.
- Uwe Schwarz: The fortifications of the 13th to 16th centuries in the Neubrandenburg district. Berlin 1987.
