Trittau Castle

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Map of the Trittau castle area from 1650. On the map that is not north-facing, the mill pond (north) is on the right; the left half of the picture is cut through by the course of the Bille (flowing south)

The Trittauer castle was a castle at the edge of today's community Trittau in southern Schleswig-Holstein . The castle emerged from a medieval castle complex and later came into the possession of the dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf . It was demolished in 1775 due to its disrepair.

historical overview

The Trittau Castle was built in 1326 by Count Johann III. Founded as a moated castle on the Bille . The castle served to secure the border area between the Schauenburg areas of Holstein and the nearby Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg , where violent conflicts repeatedly arose with the Scharpenbergs during this time . After the Schauenburgs died out, Trittau became the property of the Danish royal family in 1460, which Holstein administered as a fief . The castle was conquered by the Lübeck general Marx Meyer during the Count's feud in 1534 and returned to Denmark after the Peace of Stockelsdorf .

In the course of an inheritance division, Trittau became an exclave of the newly founded Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf in 1544. Duke Adolf I probably had the old castle largely demolished around 1581 and built a new castle in the style of the Dutch Renaissance , similar to the castle in neighboring Reinbek . During the Thirty Years' War , Trittau Castle was taken by Tilly and Wallenstein in 1627 . The military commanders used the castle as their temporary headquarters for their campaign against Holstein, and over 30,000 mercenaries were quartered in the surrounding area. Under Duke Friedrich III. The castle housed King Karl X. Gustav of Sweden in 1657 and the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm in 1659. Subsequently, it no longer played an important role in the country's history and served, next to the castle in Reinbek, as the seat of the bailiff . In the 18th century, Trittau - like almost all of Holstein - came completely into Danish hands with the Treaty of Tsarskoe Selo . The now dilapidated Trittau Castle was no longer used and was demolished in 1775.

There are no more remains of the castle. The former castle area is still referred to as the outer bailey and today's road to the Crimea marks the approximate location of the castle. The area of ​​the former castle island can still be seen from the air through the surrounding trees, although the moats no longer exist today.

literature

  • CH Seebach: 800 years of castles, palaces and mansions in Schleswig-Holstein . Wachholtz, 1988.
  • Zangel, Frederic: our slot Trittow, ed. Trittauer Foundation for the Promotion of Historical Culture , Verlag Ludwig 2013, ISBN 3869352159

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CH Seebach: 800 years of castles, palaces and mansions in Schleswig-Holstein . Pages 27, 28
  2. ^ CH Seebach: 800 years of castles, palaces and mansions in Schleswig-Holstein . Page 28

Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 11.9 "  N , 10 ° 25 ′ 14.5"  E