Nienburg Castle
Nienburg Castle was a castle complex on today's Schloßplatz in Nienburg / Weser , which was included in the medieval city fortifications of Nienburg . Apart from the tower , no structural remains have survived. The forerunner of the castle on the Weser was the moated castle Nienburg , which the Counts of Hoya converted into a representative castle in the 16th century.
history
The castle was built during the 16th century as a four-wing complex based on the models of the Stadthagen and Bückeburg castles . After the dynasty of the von Hoya family died out (1582), their county fell to the Guelph Duke Wilhelm the Younger , who resided in Celle Castle . He used a Drost to manage his office in Nienburg . Sieges in the Thirty Years' War caused destruction in the city and also on the castle and its outbuildings. After the war the castle buildings were up to in the 16th century as a battery tower built and still surviving floor tower demolished. At times it served as a prison.
The Schlossplatz, which was used by the military until 1860, was created from the vacated grounds of the castle. In the 17th and 18th centuries, military buildings of the Nienburg Fortress were built on the square and it was used as a parade ground. A map of the Schlossplatz from 1746 shows the structural situation at that time. The armory , the artillery barrack, the material house and the stock tower stand on the area of the once four-winged castle . There is also a building known as the “thick tower”. On the east side there is the “new barracks”, an elongated barracks building that was built in 1730. A drawn “ hollow ” can be interpreted as the remainder of the castle moat.
When grinding the early 19th century, the military buildings were the fortress demolished and then emerged around the place other buildings, like the District Court Nienburg , the District Office, a prison and the Baugewerkschule (later University of Applied Sciences, today Police Academy of Lower Saxony ). After a bus station was temporarily located on Schloßplatz , it is now used as a parking lot and has been partially built over with a department store.
Nienburg Castle on the Weser as a Merian engraving from 1647
Map of the Schloßplatz from 1736
Plan of the Schloßplatz, stock tower dark red, " Kuhle " brown, 1746
The stock tower as the last structural remnant of Nienburg Castle
literature
- Stefan Amt , Walter Bettauer: Nienburg Fortress. The structural development of the fortifications , Nienburg / Weser, 1996, ISBN 3-9802844-5-X ( Online , PDF, 744 kB)
Web links
- Reconstruction drawing of Nienburg Castle by Wolfgang Braun
- Replica of Nienburg Castle within the city fortifications as a diorama
- History of the Schloßplatz with historical illustration
Coordinates: 52 ° 38 ′ 29 ″ N , 9 ° 12 ′ 20 ″ E