Versfleth

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Map from the 17th century with the Versfleth area in the center

Versfleth is a submerged town in the area of ​​today's municipalities of Lemwerder and Berne . The place was on a Weser peninsula roughly in the area of ​​today's Ritzenbütteler Sand near the later village of Flethe . The place was destroyed by a storm surge around 1280.

As a result of the Weser correction in the 19th century, the Versfleth area is now predominantly in the river bed of the Weser.

One of the architectural relics of Versfleth is the chapel on the dike , the predecessor of which is said to have been built by the Counts of Versfleth around 1150 as the castle chapel of the Versfleth fortress . In 1234, troops of the Counts of Oldenburg and the Archbishop of Bremen invaded Versfleth after the battle of Altenesch , plundered and pillaged the settlement and killed the local farmers. The nobles who died in the fighting were buried in Versfleth.

Castle

The original Versfleth Castle is said to have been built by the Archbishops of Bremen. After the Bremer had achieved the demolition of Witteborg , built in 1220 , Archbishop Hildebold had a new fortification built directly on the Weser in Versfleth in 1260 in order to be able to collect customs from the ships passing here . The castle was destroyed again in 1262 after a battle with the city ​​of Bremen .

In 1373 the place was mentioned for the last time as a desert . Later, due to repeated storm surges and in the 19th century due to the Weser correction , the course of the river was shifted, so that today the greater part of the local area is traversed by the Weser.

Versfleth County

The County of Versfleth existed in the 12th century as a feudal county of the Archbishops of Bremen. The noble family of the counts and noblemen of Stumpenhusen from Wietzen (Kr. Nienburg) was enfeoffed. The male line of the dynasty died out with Count Gerbert II shortly after 1200. Their inheritance was claimed by the Counts of Oldenburg and the noblemen of Stotel.

A family of ministers from Versfleth was documented in the 15th century as residents of " Vieland ".

literature

  • Hans G. Trüper : Knights and Squires between Weser and Elbe. The ministry of the Archbishopric of Bremen. Stade 2000, ISBN 3-931879-05-4 .
  • Heinz B. Maaß: News from old Stedigen. Small Stedinger Heimatbücherei, Stedinger Verlag, Lemwerder 1990.
  • Bernd Ulrich Hucker : The Counts of Stumpenhusen and the bear's claw coat of arms. In: Home calendar for the district of Verden 1991 (1990) pp. 17–35.
  • Bernd Ulrich Hucker: The problem of rule and freedom in the regional communities and aristocratic rule of the Middle Ages in the Niederweser area. Diss. Pedag. Hochsch. Westfalen-Lippe, Münster (Westphalia) 1978.
  • Hans Georg Trüper: The medieval castles "Versfleht" and "Witteburg" - origin, decline and localization . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch, Volume 94, 2015, pp. 25–45

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ev-kirche-wesermarsch.de/index.php?site=1/9/507/509/79  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ev-kirche-wesermarsch.de  
  2. ↑ http://www.magnanimitas.de/index.php?section=bib&subsection=geschichtliches&item=rasteder_chronik
  3. ↑ http://www.burgeninventar.de/html/bre/BREM_big.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.burgeninventar.de  
  4. ^ Günter Glaeske: Hildebold . In: New German Biography (NDB) . Volume 9. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, p. 119.
  5. ^ Trüper, page 700

Coordinates: 53 ° 11 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 32 ′ 29 ″  E