Erlkron tower ruins

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The ruins Erlkron in 2015. The originally present castle battlements were not preserved.
Erlkron tower ruins, around 1910

The Erlkron tower ruin (also for short: Erlkron ) in Glücksburg near Flensburg at Schwennaustraße 46 is an old art ruin that is one of the cultural monuments of Glücksburg .

Establishment and designation

As a final at the end of the 19th century remains of Duburg - ruins were demolished in neighboring Flensburg, who acquired romantic assessed Glücksburger Heinrich hate some of the handmade bricks. The former volunteer of the Franco-German War (1870-1871) built in 1900 in his garden on a hill on Schwenautal from the stones, the artificial ruins of a medieval acting castle tower , which is arranged at different heights, pointed arch window openings and upper chamber in Gothic style .

The castle tower ruins were named "Erlkron". It is unclear how this name came about. It could be related to the common alder break forests in the Schwennautal. The name can also be associated with the ballad Erlkönig , the subject matter of which was taken from Danish. The Danish word "elletræ" means alder or literally translated "alder tree". The Danish word "elle" also means an elf . The cryptic German translation "Erlkönig" from the Danish word "ellekonge" therefore means "elf king". As in the ballad Erlenkönig, the word “crown” could mean the word crown . There are various castles and palaces whose names begin with Kron-, for example the ruins of Kronburg Castle in Austria and Kronborg Castle in Denmark .

Developments after construction

The ruin from above the Schwennau valley (2015)

In the course of time, the tower ruins developed into one of the only moderately well-known attractions of Glücksburg. Glücksburg is primarily still the luck castle in the center of tourism. Nevertheless, the tower ruins made it onto a postcard in the past .

In 1960 the Zellermann family acquired the property with the building. An architect advised Jürgen Zellermann to " blow up " the tower , it was on the most beautiful building site. The Berlin-born artist Jürgen Zellermann received the tower and built his modern house next to the tower ( location ). The family restored the garden structure and the ruins. The remnants of the landscape garden and castle tower were listed as a historical monument . The newly built house is now overgrown with clematis and ivy and surrounded by large trees, so that it fits into the landscaped park, in which there are some old fruit trees .

Around 2000 the massive masonry of the tower ruin sagged and was restored according to the instructions of the monument protection. The original battlements of the tower were not restored during the restoration.

Todays use

View from the park at the Erlkron ruins (2004)

Around 2009 the owner, Dr. Helga Windt, Jürgen Zellermann's late partner, agreed to visit the ruin. In August 2009, Carola Rasmussen, an expert in African art , exhibited stone sculptures from Zimbabwe in the landscape garden. It should be the last time that she presented one of her traditional exhibitions with art from Africa in Glücksburg. For the Open Monument Day 2009 , in September of that year, hundreds of people visited the small property on the Schwennautal. On this occasion, paintings by Jürgen Zellermann were exhibited in the tower room of the ruin. At that time there were still African sculptures in the garden. Helga Windt, born in 1932, was a biologist. She passed away in 2014.

Presumably, the ruin can still be visited in consultation. The Erlkron ruin, enthroned on a hill, also serves as a viewing tower over the Schwennau valley below. On the one hand there is a climbable viewing platform in front of the tower and on the other hand there is the tower room to linger from, from which the ox islands in the Flensburg Fjord can be seen in good weather . There is also a holiday apartment in the residential building near the ruins. The neighboring Schwennau campsite was closed in 2016. From the bridge that still exists, the ruins can be seen well in the distance.

Web links

Commons : Erlkron  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 54 ° 50 ′ 45 ″  N , 9 ° 32 ′ 25 ″  E

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Holiday country party. Along the way. Erlkron tower ruin, Glücksburg (PDF) , from: July 31, 2014; Retrieved on: February 4, 2017
  2. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : A romantic ruin and an enchanted garden , from: September 14, 2009; Retrieved on: February 4, 2017
  3. ↑ Belocal. Glücksburg, sight, tower ruin "Erlkron ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , Accessed on: 4th February 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.belocal.de
  4. ↑ List of cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein (PDF; approx. 685 kB)
  5. ^ Fritz Kruse: Glücksburg in old views. Volume 1 , No. 31; Retrieved on: February 4, 2017
  6. ↑ Belocal. Glücksburg, sight, tower ruin "Erlkron" ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2017 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. or PDF of the page ( memento of the original from March 12, 2017 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. , Retrieved on: February 4, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.belocal.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.belocal.de
  7. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : A romantic ruin and an enchanted garden , from: September 14, 2009; Retrieved on: February 4, 2017
  8. ↑ Hildebrandt: Report of the State Office for Nature and Environment of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, Biotope Mapping 1996
  9. ↑ Politics Tysk Pocket Ordbog. Norway 2005, 2nd edition, article: Erle and Langenscheidts pocket dictionary. First part. Danish-German. 1956, article: Erle
  10. ↑ See Duden.de. Dictionary, entry: Eller ; Retrieved on: February 4, 2017
  11. ↑ See Duden.de. Dictionary, entry: Erlkönig ; Retrieved on: February 4, 2017
  12. ↑ In addition to the meaning royal crown, the word crown also means tree crown , etc., cf. Duden.de. Dictionary, entry: Krone ; Retrieved on: February 4, 2017
  13. ↑ Belocal. Glücksburg, sight, tower ruin "Erlkron" ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2017 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. or PDF of the page ( memento of the original from March 12, 2017 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. , Retrieved on: February 4, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.belocal.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.belocal.de
  14. ^ Glücksburg Ostsee, edutainment in and around Glücksburg. "Erlkron" tower ruin in Glücksburg , accessed on: February 4, 2017
  15. ↑ See postcard: Ostseebad Glücksburg, Erlkron ruin in Schwenauthal ( memento of the original from March 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved on: February 4, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.delcampe.net
  16. ↑ Belocal. Glücksburg, sight, tower ruin "Erlkron" ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2017 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. or PDF of the page ( memento of the original from March 12, 2017 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. , Retrieved on: February 4, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.belocal.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.belocal.de
  17. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : A romantic ruin and an enchanted garden , from: September 14, 2009; Retrieved on: February 4, 2017
  18. ↑ See picture of the ruin on the right and residential building on the left , accessed on: February 4, 2017
  19. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : A romantic ruin and an enchanted garden , from: September 14, 2009; Retrieved on: February 4, 2017
  20. ↑ Belocal. Glücksburg, sight, tower ruin "Erlkron" ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2017 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. or PDF of the page ( memento of the original from March 12, 2017 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. , Retrieved on: February 4, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.belocal.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.belocal.de
  21. ↑ List of cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein (PDF; approx. 685 kB)
  22. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : A romantic ruin and an enchanted garden , from: September 14, 2009; Retrieved on: February 4, 2017
  23. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : A romantic ruin and an enchanted garden , from: September 14, 2009; Retrieved on: February 4, 2017
  24. ↑ See postcard: Ostseebad Glücksburg, Erlkron ruin in Schwenauthal ( memento of the original from March 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved on: February 4, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.delcampe.net
  25. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : A romantic ruin and an enchanted garden , from: September 14, 2009; Retrieved on: February 4, 2017
  26. ^ Holiday country party. Along the way. Erlkron tower ruin, Glücksburg (PDF) , from: July 31, 2014; Retrieved on: February 4, 2017
  27. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Art Ambassador with Longing for Africa , from: August 22, 2009; Retrieved on: February 4, 2017
  28. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : A romantic ruin and an enchanted garden , from: September 14, 2009; Retrieved on: February 4, 2017
  29. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : A romantic ruin and an enchanted garden , from: September 14, 2009; Retrieved on: February 4, 2017
  30. ↑ sh: z : Dr. Helga Windt: Obituary notice , from: November 15, 2014; Retrieved on: February 4, 2017
  31. ↑ See Belocal. Glücksburg, sight, tower ruin "Erlkron ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , Accessed on: 4th February 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.belocal.de
  32. ↑ Belocal. Glücksburg, sight, tower ruin "Erlkron" ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2017 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. or PDF of the page ( memento of the original from March 12, 2017 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. , Retrieved on: February 4, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.belocal.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.belocal.de
  33. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : A romantic ruin and an enchanted garden , from: September 14, 2009; Retrieved on: February 4, 2017
  34. ↑ Apartment Erlkron , accessed on: February 4, 2017
  35. ↑ Cf. Flensburger Tageblatt : Schwennau: long-term complaint about camping site , from: May 22, 2015 and Flensburger Tageblatt : Former holiday home in Glücksburg: Schwennauhof: Now the demolition begins , from: March 9, 2016; Accessed on: February 6, 2017