Schwaneninsel (Glücksburg)

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The small, tree-covered swan island, on the left, east of the moated castle.

The Schwaneninsel in Glücksburg (Baltic Sea) , in Schleswig-Holstein , is a small inland lake island in the Glücksburg castle pond , which, as is believed, originally served as a castle hill . It is one of the cultural monuments of the place.

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The small, circular island is east of Glücksburg Castle . According to the local history researcher Jakob Röschmann , a hilltop castle could already have been in the area before the castle pond was created . This defense system, the dimensions of which was approximately 45 × 45 meters, presumably continued to exist after the Rudekloster was built in the 13th century.

On the map by Marcus Jordanus from 1559, the “Ruekloster” is shown as a simple house with a stepped gable, which is connected to a defensive tower by a battlement.
The Rudekloster on the map by Andreas Angelus from 1596. The tower to the left of the monastery church could be the presumed defensive tower on Swan Island.

From the 16th century, the time the monastery was dissolved, there are two old regional maps, on each of which the Rudeklosterkomplex was immortalized with a miniature view. The oldest miniature view is the one on the map of Marcus Jordanus from 1559. Its illustration shows a pointed helmeted tower that is connected to a gable building next to it by means of defensive masonry. The second, better known miniature view is on the map of Andreas Angelus from 1596. It shows the monastery church with smaller surrounding monastery buildings. A tower in the left area of ​​the background could also be the " defense tower ". The oldest book dealing with Glücksburg comes from the ducal chamber inspector Johann Christian Gude. In this report of the Sundewitt peninsula and the Glücksburg hereditary lands from 1788 it says: "The castle in front of the monastery went up to the current castle [...]". This is the only mention of a castle in this context. This should have meant the aforementioned defense tower.

At the end of the 16th century the Rudekloster was finally demolished and the neighboring moated castle built. The castle pond was created at the same time. According to Röschmann, the "tower hill" evolved into the smaller island, apparently after it was filled up again.

In 1961/62 and 1969, the castle pond was examined more closely by the State Office for Monument Preservation when the water was drained. Jakob Röschmann reported on it in the following words:

“On November 26, 1961, the water level was lowered so far that west of the castle you could see some wall plans, partly made of large boulders, partly made of large bricks. - About 30 meters east of the castle there is a circular island with alder trees, steeply sloped by medium-sized boulders, with a diameter of about 10 meters and a height of 1.50 meters. Next to the steps on the west side, made of hewn boulders, there was a door hinge with a circular recess in the middle. A 5-6 meter wide belt of reeds that surrounds the island seems to indicate a ditch-like depression in the process of silting up. From the island in the direction of the northeast corner of the castle, a 2-3 meter wide strip enriched with bricks could be seen in the pond floor. "

Senior Church Councilor a. D. Carl-Heinrich Seebach from the State Office for Monument Preservation, who led the excavations, agreed with Röschmann's interpretation that the island was a tower hill. Seebach interpreted the remains found to the west of the castle as a monastery building, one of which stood out with its powerful and therefore well-fortified foundation. He also classified the remains of a building with a moat to the east of today's moated castle as part of the lost castle.

In the 18th century there was a small half-timbered house with a red tent roof on the small island , which may have been built on the foundations of the older tower. It could initially have served as a pleasure or boathouse. Secondly, the little house offered shelter for some swans . Most recently, six old and six young swans are said to have lived there. A lithograph from 1835 is the last evidence of the existence of the "swan house". The name of the island, which connects the island with swans, is therefore apparently based on this fact. Visiting the Schwaneninsel is usually not possible these days for visitors to the neighboring castle, but it is not difficult to see it from the shore.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jakob Röschmann : Prehistory of the Flensburg district . The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 6. Neumünster 1963, page 90
  2. ↑ List of monuments Schleswig-Flensburg, Glücksburg (Baltic Sea), City, as of February 23, 2017  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on: March 17, 2017@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.schleswig-holstein.de  
  3. ↑ a b c d e Jakob Röschmann : Prehistory of the Flensburg district. The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein , Volume 6. Neumünster 1963, p. 248
  4. ↑ The construction of such a tower hill castle was possible with enough workers within a very short time and was not particularly expensive in terms of money. See Burgen im Mittelalter, Die Burg als Herrschaftssymbol, Niederungsborgen , accessed on: March 17, 2017
  5. ↑ a b Heiko KL Schulze : The buildings of the Rudekloster in Glücksburg in the 13th century. On the architecture of the Cistercians in Northern Germany , page 41; Retrieved on: March 17, 2017
  6. ↑ Glücksburg Ostsee, Historisches, Literatur ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on: March 17, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / stadt.gluecksburg.de
  7. ^ Johann Christian Gude: Report of the Sundewitt peninsula and the Glücksburg hereditary land , Flensburg and Leipzig 1788, p. 91
  8. ↑ See Jakob Röschmann : Prehistory of the Flensburg district. The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein , Volume 6. Neumünster 1963, page 248
  9. ↑ a b c Heiko KL Schulze : The buildings of the Rudekloster in Glücksburg in the 13th century On the architecture of the Cistercians in Northern Germany , p. 42; Retrieved on: March 17, 2017
  10. ↑ See Rudekloster, Munkbrarup community near Glücksburg / Flensburg , accessed on: March 17, 2017
  11. ^ Heiko KL Schulze : The buildings of the Rudekloster in Glücksburg in the 13th century. On the architecture of the Cistercians in Northern Germany , p. 48; Retrieved on: March 17, 2017
  12. ↑ Berthold Hamer: Glücksburger Streets, Volume 5, Um den Schlossteich, Glücksburg 2015, p. 10
  13. ↑ Berthold Hamer: Glücksburger Streets, Volume 5, Um den Schlossteich, Glücksburg 2015, p. 18
  14. ^ Heiko KL Schulze : The buildings of the Rudekloster in Glücksburg in the 13th century. On the architecture of the Cistercians in Northern Germany , p. 48; Retrieved on: March 17, 2017
  15. ↑ Painting “Return from the Hunt”, Glücksburg Castle, mid-18th century; Watercolor "Schloss Glücksburg", Hamburg, Altonaer Museum, end of 18th century.
  16. ^ Heiko KL Schulze : The buildings of the Rudekloster in Glücksburg in the 13th century. On the architecture of the Cistercians in Northern Germany , p. 48; Retrieved on: March 17, 2017
  17. ↑ Berthold Hamer: Glücksburger Streets, Volume 5, Um den Schlossteich, Glücksburg 2015, p. 18

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Coordinates: 54 ° 49 ′ 54 ″  N , 9 ° 32 ′ 42 ″  E