Chrobry hill fort in Szprotawa

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Chrobry Castle from the west
Excavations in 2008
Excavation 2009

The Wallburg Chrobry is an early Polish castle in the Lower Silesian town of Szprotawa (formerly German Sprottau ) in the district of Iława ( German  Eulau ). It is located in the Bobertal in the nature reserve Slavic Park .

history

It is very likely that the castle is identical to the Ilva castle of the Dadosanen , which in 1000 was the place of the meeting of the Polish Duke Bolesław Chrobry with the German Emperor Otto III. on whose journey to the grave of the canonized Adalbert from Prague to Gniezno was. Hence the current name of the facility.

investment

Its surface is approx. 4 hectares and the height approx. 6 meters. It is a polygonal building with clear regularity and a steep slope. In the vicinity of the castle there are quarries and moors, nowadays partially dried up.
It is one of the largest of its kind in Poland.

Until 1945 the property was called "Nonnenbuschberg", because the area was formerly part of the local Magdalenenkloster. Since May 30, 2007, the Wallburg became a cultural monument within the aforementioned nature reserve at the request of the Lower Silesian Heath Association.

Archaeological excavations

Vice-Rector Gloger described the ground monument as a hill fort from the Polish period before the German colonization, but does not give any investigations.

Maciej Boryna from the Muzeum Ziemi Szprotawskiej found medieval ceramic material on the object and is of the opinion that this castle complex was either never completed or was only used for a short time.

In the vicinity there are smaller cultural-archaeological monuments that could be related to the Wallburg.

literature

  • August Gloger: Settlement of the Sprottau district in prehistoric and historical times (= contributions to local history of the Sprottau district. Issue 2, ZDB -ID 539858-7 ). Klinner, Sprottau 1927.
  • JGWorbs: History of the Duchy Sagan , Züllichau 1795
  • Felix Matuszkiewicz : History of the town Sprottau , Sprottau 1908
  • Maciej Boryna: Szprotawa i okolice . 2nd issue, 2004.
  • Maciej Boryna: Gminna Ewidencja Zabytków Gminy Szprotawa . Item No. 49/2475, 2005.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See chronicle of Thietmar von Merseburg , Georg Heinrich Pertz u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 3: Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Saxonici. Hanover 1839, pp. 723–871 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
  2. ↑ Hieronim Szczegóła : A jednak Iława szprotawska , Nadodrze 1960, no.6
  3. ^ Słownik starożytności słowiańskich , t. 2, Wroclaw 1964
  4. ↑ Hieronim Szczegóła: Historyczna Ilua najstarszą częścią Szprotawy w Szprotawski epizod Zjazdu Gnieźnieńskiego , Szprotawa 2000 ISBN 83-7268-002-7
  5. ↑ Andrzej Wałkówski : Stosunki polsko-niemieckie do 1000 roku w Szprotawski epizod Zjazdu Gnieźnieńskiego , Szprotawa 2000 ISBN 83-7268-002-7
  6. ↑ Hieronim Szczegóła: Szprotawski epizod Zjazdu Gnieźnieńskiego w 1000 roku w Szprotawa 1000-2000. W kręgu europejskich idei zjednoczeniowych ISBN 83-7268-003-5 , Szprotawa 2000
  7. ↑ JGWorbs: History of the Duchy of Sagan , Züllichau 1795
  8. ^ Felix Matuszkiewicz : History of the City of Sprottau , Sprottau 1908
  9. ↑ August Gloger: Settlement of the Sprottau district in prehistoric and historical times (= contributions to local history of the Sprottau district. Issue 2), Sprottau 1927
  10. ↑ Maciej Boryna: Gminna Ewidencja Zabytków Gminy Szprotawa , 2005

Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 27 ″  N , 15 ° 31 ′ 3 ″  E