Sibetsburg
| Sibetsburg | ||
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 Reconstruction on the information board on the castle hill |
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| Alternative name (s): | Edenburg | |
| Castle type : | Nierderungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Wilhelmshaven - Siebethsburg | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 31 '55 " N , 8 ° 6' 25" E | |
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The Sibetsburg was originally a pirate castle of Edo Wiemken on the North Sea coast in the area of what was then Rüstringen . The remains can be found in the Wilhelmshaven district of Siebethsburg (today's spelling).
Origin as a pirate castle
The castle was built as the chief's castle by Edo Wiemken as Edenburg in 1383 and renamed Sibetsburg in 1416 by his grandson Sibet Lubbenson . For a long time it served the Vitalienbrothers as a hiding place and was secured with several walls and moats. It was located in the Rüstringen area in East Friesland on an arm of the sea, so that seagoing ships could dock right next to it. The castle was conquered as part of the great punitive expedition of the Hanseatic League against the East Frisian chiefs Lubbe Onneken and Hayo Harlda in 1433 and finally razed in 1435. The inlet silted up later, today the square is miles inland, roughly in the middle of Wilhelmshaven.
Archaeologists from the Coastal Museum carried out excavations from 1962 to 1964, during which the foundations of a defensive tower and farm buildings were found on the outer bailey.
Location on an old city map in the upper left corner
Sign at the park entrance to Sibetsburg
Park entrance with Sibetsburg hill
East Frisia around 1300, Sibetsburg marked
Information boards and reconstructed foundations
Miniaturized reconstruction of the Sibetsburg in Störtebeker Park in Wilhelmshaven
Floor plan on information board on the castle hill
Inscription plaque on the Sibetsburg site in Wilhelmshaven
literature
- Matthias Puhle : Die Vitalienbruder: Klaus Störtebeker and the pirates of the Hanseatic era , 2nd edition, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1994, ISBN 3-593-34525-0
- Heinrich Schmidt: The eastern Friesland around 1400 - territorial political structures and movements. In: Wilfried Ehbrecht: Störtebeker: 600 years after his death , Porta-Alba-Verlag, Trier 2005, ISBN 3-933701-14-7 , pp. 85–110
- Ernst Andreas Friedrich : The castles in Wilhelmshaven , pp. 147-149, in: If stones could talk , Volume III, Landbuch-Verlag, Hanover 1995, ISBN 3-7842-0515-1 .
Web links
- Entry by Frank Both zu Sibetsburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Side of the city of Wilhelmshaven over the Siebethsburg district with an aerial view
- Wilhelmshaven sights with the Sibetsburg
- Representation of changes in the course of the coast
- Reconstruction drawing of the Sibetsburg in its medieval state
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography of Hayo Harlda In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 288-289 ( online ).