Białogard Castle

Białogard Castle
	; View around 1618 (sketch around 1890)
Data
place	Białogard
Construction year	1535
Coordinates	54 ° 0 '12 " N , 15 ° 59' 9" E Coordinates: 54 ° 0 '12 " N , 15 ° 59' 9" E
particularities
	Decay from the 17th century

Białogard Castle (German Belgard an der Persante ) was a renaissance castle built under Philip I (Pomerania) in the Polish village of Białogard .

location

Belgard Castle was built on an artificially raised hill on which Belgard Castle had been located since the Middle Ages . The medieval castle, predecessor of the later castle on the site, was built by the Pomeranian dukes . It was first mentioned in a document in 1105 after the original castle town was destroyed by the Polish Duke Boleslav in Wendish times . As early as the 12th century, the castle, or the castro guard as it was also called, was the official residence of the castellan . In 1299, when Belgard was founded, the castle hill comprised about 1/3 of the settlement area at that time. The location of the castle, about 6 meters above the city, was about 130 meters from the city center.

Former location of the castle on the ramparts in Białogard

Erratic boulders on the castle wall

history

The location was established by Duke Wartislaw III. used as a residence. In 1315 Wartislaw IV. (Son of Bogislaw IV. ) Began to develop the location of the castle as a palace. As the only building on the castle hill, the brick building therefore covered an area of around 20 m × 11 m. To the east of this there was a small inner courtyard, which was surrounded by a massive wall. The Pomeranian Duke only resided here in 1321 . In the same year, the castle became the seat of the mayor of Belgard. From 1357 to 1372 Belgard Castle was owned by Gerhard Manduvel . In the 15th century, Bogislaw , son of Duke Wartislaw VII , who has also been named Erich I since 1396, appointed a castle captain . The palace and castle court , which sat here for a long time via the Belgard'schen Kreis , was later transferred to the court court in Kolberg , then transferred to Köslin . The complex burned down in 1526, and between 1535 and 1541 the new castle was rebuilt over the old basement of the first castle.

Following the Thirty Years War , Pomerania and Belgard became part of Prussia as a result of the Peace of Westphalia . The castle became the seat of the local government. In 1780, under the reign of Frederick II , the castle was destroyed at his behest, and as a result, a contemporary building for the royal officials was completed on the site, also known as the Amtsberg , in the year Frederick II died. Between 1890 and 1910 the building on the site of the former castle was used as a residential building until it burned again in 1910 and the remains of the buildings were finally demolished after the Second World War .

Today only the hill can be seen on which the remains of the foundations of the former official building (old office) are present.

description

The Lubin'sche view from 1618 shows the castle as a rectangular building with four floors and a gable roof . The building was built in massive construction. The stones and wood for the construction of the complex were also obtained by the dukes from the land and the forests around Belgard. The transfer of the building materials for the castle took place at the time as compensation, in the course of the transfer of ownership of the localities Kołacz and Ogartowo to the Manteuffel family in 1541.

Belgardt around 1618.

The old map of Lubin shows on the far left the castle in Belgard, which fell into disrepair after the Thirty Years War.

literature

Ludwig Böttger: The architectural and art monuments of the province of Pomerania. T.3, Vol. 1, H. 2, Belgard district and supplements to the Colberg-Körlin district. Szczecin 1890.
Georg Schmidt : The von Manteuffel family. Poplow tribe of the Pomeranian ancestry . Berlin 1913.

Web links

Footnotes

↑ Artur Reck : Baltic Studies, Volumes 44-45 . Leon Saunier's bookstore (ed.), 1957, p. 125.
↑ Georg Schmidt : The family of Manteuffel. Polzin and Arnhausen tribe of the Pomeranian family . Berlin 1915, p. 14.
↑ Christian Friedrich Wutstrack : Brief historical-geographical and statistical description of the königlichpreussischen Duchy front and rear Pomerania, etc . Stettin 1793, p. 615 .

[1] Artur Reck : Baltic Studies, Volumes 44-45 . Leon Saunier's bookstore (ed.), 1957, p. 125.

[2] Georg Schmidt : The family of Manteuffel. Polzin and Arnhausen tribe of the Pomeranian family . Berlin 1915, p. 14.

[3] Christian Friedrich Wutstrack : Brief historical-geographical and statistical description of the königlichpreussischen Duchy front and rear Pomerania, etc . Stettin 1793, p. 615 .