Slavic castle Ruppin
| Slavic castle Ruppin | |
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 Burgstall on the island of Poggenwerder |
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| Alternative name (s): | Poggenwerder |
| Creation time : | around the end of the 9th century |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall |
| Place: | Neuruppin , district of Alt Ruppin |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 56 '31 " N , 12 ° 50' 10" E |
The Slavic castle Ruppin is the stables of a Slavic rampart in the northwest of the state of Brandenburg . It is located on the island of Poggenwerder in Lake Ruppin and belongs to the Alt Ruppin district of the city of Neuruppin .
The Slavic castle Ruppin was built around the end of the 9th century as an island castle . The island of Poggenwerder is oval and has a maximum diameter of about 100 m. The Slavic castle was probably a princely castle that served as the headquarters of the Wendish tribe of the Zamzizi , who had settled in the Ruppiner Land since the 10th century at the latest .
On the offshore peninsula, the Amtswerder von Alt Ruppin, a fortified outer bailey settlement was built at the same time as the Slavic castle. It was probably city-like and inhabited by craftsmen; a section trench separated them from the northern mainland. The settlement reached its heyday in the 11th century.
There was a wooden bridge between the Inselburg and the Vorburgsiedlung. Islands, which were in front of fortified settlements on peninsulas, were often associated with cult buildings among the Slavs. It is therefore possible that there was a temple with the tribal shrine in the Slavic castle Ruppin . Another cult center of the Zamzizi was probably the Altfriesack castle wall . By 1150 at the latest, the Slavic castle Ruppin was probably destroyed or abandoned in the course of the Wendenkreuzzug . Around 1200, the German Ruppin Castle was built on the Amtswerder and became the political center of the Ruppin rule .
Late Slavic and early German ceramics were found during excavations on the island of Poggenwerder and on the Amtswerder . On the official Werder, moreover, knives, spearheads and coins as well as a mold for found turning pennies .
Of the fortifications of the Inselburg, only weak traces of ramparts can be found on the edges of the island. In the 19th century, wooden structures, beam systems and field stone fillings were discovered during earthworks. The Slavic castle Ruppin is registered as a ground monument with the number 100034 in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg .
Inselburg and Vorburgsiedlung (reconstruction)
literature
- Institute for Geography and Geoecology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (Ed.): Ruppiner Land. Results of the local history inventory in the areas of Zühlen, Dierberg, Neuruppin and Lindow (= values of our homeland . Volume 37 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1981, DNB 820301612 , p. 137 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Altruppin. In: Gerd Heinrich (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 10: Berlin and Brandenburg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 311). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-520-31102-X .
- ↑ Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum (ed.): List of monuments of the State of Brandenburg - Ostprignitz-Ruppin district . A) Ground monument, ground monument number 100013, December 31, 2018, p. 1 ( bldam-brandenburg.de [PDF; 346 kB ; accessed on May 13, 2019]).