Handewitt Tower Hill Castle
| Handewitt Tower Hill Castle | ||
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,_Bild_02B.jpg) Area of the tower castle Handewitt at dusk (photo 2017) |
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| Creation time : | not clear | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, remains of the castle hill | |
| Place: | Handewitt | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 45 '25 " N , 9 ° 16' 30.2" E | |
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The tower hill castle Handewitt is an abandoned low castle in the form of a tower hill castle (Motte) west of Handewitt on the road Westerlund in the Schleswig-Flensburg district in Schleswig-Holstein . Today it is obviously one of the local archaeological cultural monuments .
background
In the vicinity of Flensburg and in Flensburg itself there were several hill-tower castles, so there is also a hill-tower castle on the city arms of Flensburg . The nearest originally designed similar castles are the northeast located on the Danish border castle Niehuus in Harrislee , the east in the Marienhölzung located Eddeboe and probably the castle in the vineyard in neighboring eastern district of Flensburg Soft . The age of the Handewitter tower hill castle is indefinite. The function of the castle is also unclear. Flensburg's hill towers either served as the seat of noblemen or were part of the Flensburg city fortifications . The area in which the Turmhügelburg is located was sparsely populated in the Middle Ages , but even then it was apparently close to a country road that ran westwards towards North Frisia . The street name "Westerlund" names a small forest to the west . At least today there is such a forest in the north of the castle site. Directly to the east runs a ditch running from south to north, which runs to the north of the Meyner Mühlenstrom . The moat, which may have been part of the castle, is approximately 0.8 meters deep and 5 meters wide. The area of the tower hill lies in an old depression of the river in question. The poorly preserved castle hill is now 1.5 meters high and 38 meters in diameter. To the north, below the castle hill, wet plants have settled.
legend
Around 1930, the legend collector Bruno Ketelsen recorded a legend about the castle and the Kratt that arose there :
“Many years ago there was a castle on the border between Meyn and Handewitt. There was a wide ditch all around, there is now a depression. A countess lived here who was a widow. She had a steward who always wanted to marry her, but she didn't want him. Then out of anger he sowed the whole field with acorns. So the roughing there grew. "
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Arthur Dähn: Ring walls and tower mounds. Medieval castles in Schleswig-Holstein, Husum 2001, page 352
- ↑ Albert Panten recently hypothesized that the original name of the castle could have been called “Börneburg”. The historian Wilhelm Ernst Christiani reported earlier in the 18th century that King Waldemar had come to “Flensburg and Börneburg”. However, whether it was a place near Börneburg, a castle and whether it was in the vicinity of Flensburg at all has not been recorded at all. See Wilhelm Ernst Christiani: History of the Duchies of Schleswig and Hollstein, second part , Flensburg and Leipzig 1776, p. 441 and Asmus Andresen: Chronik des Kirchspiels Handewitt, Leck 1990, p. 24 ff.
- ↑ In the corresponding list there is a single castle at Handewitt, which is likely to be the one mentioned: Cf. list of immovable archaeological cultural monuments of the Archaeological State Office Schleswig-Holstein (PDF 32MB), p. 2883 f.
- ↑ See Jakob Röschmann : Prehistory of the Flensburg district . The prehistoric and early historical monuments and finds in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 6. Neumünster 1963
- ^ Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg! , Flensburg 2009, article: Stadtsiegel
- ↑ The all-round bike. “Dat nige Hus”. A hilltop castle on Ochsenweg , p. 13; Retrieved on: February 16, 2017
- ↑ See Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Friesische Straße
- ↑ Flensburg street names . Society for Flensburg City History, Flensburg 2005, ISBN 3-925856-50-1 , article: Lundweg and Westerkoppel
- ↑ Arthur Dähn: Ring walls and tower mounds. Medieval castles in Schleswig-Holstein, Husum 2001, page 352 in connection with: Das Radrundum. Biotope network system. The Meynautal and a former military training area , p. 13; Retrieved on: February 16, 2017
- ↑ Ketelsen, Bruno: Völkerbrücke Schleswig in the mirror of the legend. P. 23
- ↑ See Wiktionary : undergrowth and bush
- ↑ Asmus Andresen: Chronik des Kirchspiels Handewitt, Leck 1990, p. 24
