Müggenburg moated castle
| Müggenburg moated castle | ||
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 Müggenburg Castle |
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| Alternative name (s): | Müggenburg Castle | |
| Creation time : | around 1355 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, location | |
| Conservation status: | Preserved essential parts | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Neuenkirchen | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 47 '35.4 " N , 13 ° 36' 5.3" E | |
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The Müggenburg moated castle , also called Müggenburg Castle , is a mansion and is located about 10 km south of the district town of Anklam ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ) in the district of the same name in the municipality of Neuenkirchen .
The Niederungsburg and Wasserburg were first mentioned in 1355 as "castro Mügghenborg". The word "Mügge" stands for a headland in a damp lowland. At that time the castle was the ancestral seat of the Pomeranian noble family von Nienkerken ( Neuenkirchen ). In 1434 part of the complex was destroyed in a conflict with the city of Anklam, only the 28-meter-high fishing tower remained. The present mansion in neo-Gothic style was built around it between 1889 and 1891 .
“The palace from the end of the 19th century is in a dominant location in the former manor complex. The former two-part system is surrounded by a water-bearing ditch up to 20 m wide. The plateau extends up to 4 m above the water surface. Today it is almost a rectangle about 50 m wide and 90 m long. The moat between the two parts of the castle was filled in during the construction of the castle. The castle is on the western part. The keep, which is up to 23 m high, is integrated into it. The eastern, insignificantly wider, now free part probably carried the outer bailey. The 'castra Mughe (n) borgh' was mentioned in 1331. The castle was destroyed in 1434. "
With the associated manor, it was owned by the Holtz family until the expropriation in 1945. In the course of the land reform , the manor house was transferred to the Neuenkirchen community, which initially used it as refugee accommodation, then as a cultural center and later left it to the LPG . When this was no longer used for the building from 1980, it was abandoned and left to decay and, like the extensive wood paneling, willfully destroyed and looted. In 1986 and 1987, filming for the DEFA film One Carrying the Other's Load took place here.
In 1994, the owner of a wood processing company bought the manor house and restored it, mostly with his own resources, so that he could cater to excursionists on a modest scale. The old castle tower can also be climbed again, from which one has a wide view over the Western Pomerania landscape from Anklam to the Helpter Mountains . On the way up you pass the former entrance hall with its ribbed vault , which shows the biblical verse used as the building motto, "I and my house want to serve the Lord" .
literature
- Hubertus Neuschäffer: Western Pomerania's castles and mansions . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, 1993, ISBN 3-88042-636-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Volume 1, W. Dietze, Anklam-Berlin 1865, pp. 333-336. ( Google Books ).
- ^ A b Neidhardt Krauß, Egon Fischer: On the way to castles, palaces and parks in Western Pomerania . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1991, ISBN 3-356-00391-7 , pp. 21-22.
- ↑ Uwe Schwarz: The lower aristocratic fortifications of the 13th to 16th centuries in the Neubrandenburg district. Berlin 1987, p. 30.