Vöhrum moated castle
| Vöhrum moated castle | ||
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 Display board at the excavation site of the Vöhrum moated castle |
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| Creation time : | around 1180 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Peine - Vöhrum | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 20 '38 " N , 10 ° 11' 15" E | |
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The moated castle Vöhrum is a lost moated castle in the lower area of the Fuhse near Vöhrum , a current district of Peine in Lower Saxony . There are no remains of the former fortification, possibly of the type of a tower-hill castle ( motte ).
Lore
Documentary records of the castle complex are not known. Their location is marked several times on historical maps. This took place in later centuries, when the facility no longer existed, but could still be recognized by means of elevations in the ground. The moated castle is mentioned for the first time on a map of the Meinersen office from 1675. In 1729 and thereafter, the complex is shown as an island in the Fuhse. On a map from 1874, a meadow property called Wasserburg is shown, on which the facility is embedded in a curved arm of the river. By straightening the Fuhse in 1933 and 1934, the arm of the river was cut off and silted up in the flat lowland area.
discovery
Before the Second World War , a student researched the moated castle. He found out that there were two elevations in the meadow with the field name Wasserburg, which were removed around 1890. Fieldstones were found in the otherwise stone-poor moorland. Large stone blocks were also found in another meadow.
In 1976 a farmer discovered several stakes protruding from the ground in his meadow, which were hindering his mowing work and pulled them out. The oak posts were between three and five meters long, sawn to shape and sharpened with ax cuts. During further investigations, an archaeologist found a total of 56 piles, each one meter apart, which he interpreted as a row of palisades . The dendrochronological examination of a post revealed a date to around 1180. Since no excavation was carried out, a volunteer archaeologist documented almost 200 posts in the following years, 160 of which formed an arched row. In 1979 the city of Peine acquired the site to enable further research and designated it as a landscape protection area . In 1980 the volunteer archaeologist undertook a small search cut, during which he found squared timber lying 60 centimeters deep.
Prospecting
When a display board was to be set up at the castle site in 2001, the citizens of Vöhrum demanded an excavation from the Braunschweig district archeology of the Lower Saxony State Office for Monument Preservation . This was followed by various prospecting measures between 2001 and 2004 , such as geoelectrics and geomagnetics using ground penetrating radar . The structure of a trapezoidal core castle of 23 × 25 meters with a central, U-shaped anomaly and a ditch on one side emerged . In a probe cut carried out in 2003 in the area of the anomaly, limestone and mortar were found, so that remains of a stone building could be assumed. An aerial view behind a seemingly used as farmyard Vorburg recognize.
Excavations
Excavations took place in 1976, 1980, 2003 and 2005. There were small remains that point to a rectangular stone tower with walls several meters thick. Underneath, there was a strong foundation that was necessary for the tower to remain stable in the damp lowlands. Mighty oak trunks were also lumbered into a large wooden platform. During the excavations 212 piles, stone foundations (of buildings and a tower), bones, ceramics, as well as iron and bronze parts from the 13th century were found. Some finds are exhibited in the Peiner district museum.
The Hildesheim Ministeriale Thidericus de Voerden, documented in 1204 and 1207, is believed to be the builder of the complex . Today an information board placed on the edge of the excavation area indicates the existence of the castle.
literature
- Hans Adolf Schultz : Burgen und Schlösser des Braunschweiger Land , Verlag Waisenhaus, 1984
- Michael Geschwinde , Christian Schweitzer: The secret of the "Wasserburg". Prospecting and exploration of a high medieval castle near Vöhrum, city of Peine in: Nachrichten aus Lower Saxony's Urgeschichte , Vol. 76, 2007
Web links
- Entry by Thomas Budde on Vöhrum in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Description at Braunschweigische Landschaft on denkmalpflege.bsl-ag.de
- Entry on Vöhrum in the private database "Alle Burgen".
- District archeology reveals the secret of Vöhrumer Wasserburg at peine01.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wasserburg Vöhrum at denkmalpflege.bsl-ag.de