Gommern moated castle
The moated castle Gommern is a moated castle or moated castle in the city of Gommern in Saxony-Anhalt . This is designated as a cultural monument . There is a brewery in the Wasserburg .
history
On an artificial hill early as the 10th century there was a Slavic hill fort . To secure the German conquest, was from 948 in its place a new fortress consisting of bailey and core castle with ramparts and double moats built. The free-standing keep that still exists today was given three meter thick walls. It is about 40 meters high and ten meters in diameter.
In 1578 the Saxon elector August had large parts of the castle demolished and commissioned the builder Paul Buchner to convert it into a hunting lodge . In this quartzite - rubble from the nearby quarries and ablated material from the convent Plötzky used. A spiral staircase was built into the keep and it was given a Welsche Dome .
From 1853 the castle was used as a prison for a hundred years, then as a social home and from 1969 to 1989 for vocational training.
From 1942, female prisoners were imprisoned in the Gommern prison under the Night and Fog Decree (NN). When the prison was liberated by Red Army units on May 5, 1945, a British-Belgian NN prisoner had a body weight of 39 kilograms, an indication of the poor living conditions there. After the war, the Gommern prison continued to be used by the Soviets for political prisoners .
In 1990 the company was privatized and transformed into a hotel and restaurant with its own brewery , which was abandoned after ten years. After the castle had been closed for a while and subsequent foreclosures, the restaurant and brewery were reopened in December 2008. The hotel reopened in February 2009.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 11 ″ N , 11 ° 49 ′ 49.9 ″ E