Tautenburg (island)

This article is about Castle Island in Poland. For the village of the same name in Thuringia see Tautenburg

Doben and Dobensche Insel

Postcard (1900)

The Tautenburg was a castle of the Teutonic Order on an island in the Mauersee . Nothing remains of the castle.

Dobensche Insel lies in front of the western shore of Lake Dobsen (part of the Mauersee) in the Polish Gmina Giżycko . The current name of the island is Gilma.

The Prussians built a rampart on it . After it was conquered by the Teutonic Order at the beginning of the 14th century, the Tautenburg was built here using a wood and earth construction. Later the order's court was moved from the island to an elevation on the western shore of the lake. The Fideikommiss Doben with 1353 hectares of fields and meadows and 996 hectares of forest was dissolved (probably in the 19th century).

Doben and the wooded island northeast of the village were difficult to reach even before World War II . In his report on the 99th Foundation Festival of the Corps Masovia in Angerburg (1929) Hans Lippold writes:

"The seldom visitable island of Tautenburg was our first destination, a wave-washed jewel with an idyllic house in the late Schinkel style, with an old castle wall, pagan spruce trees and primeval forest oaks."

- Hans Lippold

See also

• Masurian Lake District

Web links

• Castles in the Ordensland (Bernd Brzezinsky)
• Schenk von Tautenburg (zeno.org)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Schenk in Tautenburg
2. ^ Hans Lippold: History of the Corps Masovia (1910-1930), new edition. Munich 2005, p. 246.

Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '  N , 21 ° 36'  E