Westerburg (Groothusen)

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The Westerburg was a high medieval castle in Groothusen , a district of the municipality of Krummhörn , in the Aurich district in Lower Saxony .

history

The castle was built in the second half of the 14th century in the style of East Frisian stone houses . In the course of a punitive expedition in 1435 the Hanseatic League conquered the Westerburg with the help of Edzard and Ulrich Cirksena . Subsequently, the conquerors destroyed the castle by dragging the ramparts and throwing the gates, towers and walls into the moats. A few years later the Groothuser fortified the Westerburg again when there were open disputes with the city of Hamburg in 1450 . The castle later came into the possession of the Frese family and, through marriage, to Unico Manninga . By 1758 at the latest, the building, now referred to as Gut, belonged to Haro Fridag von Gödens and around 1820 to the Janssen family. It is unknown when the fortification was razed. A structural historical analysis of the current building, a Gulf house built around 1800, has not yet taken place. Remnants of the moats and ramparts are still there.

Web links

  • Entry by Frank Both and Stefan Eismann zu Westerburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Eberhard Pühl: Old brick houses in East Friesland and in Jeverland. Brick buildings from the 15th to 19th centuries . Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89995-323-7 . P. 44.
  2. ↑ Enno Friedrich Kempe: The Middelste Castle in Groothusen (PDF; 18 kB), viewed on May 28, 2013.

Coordinates: 53 ° 26 '9.2 "  N , 7 ° 3' 40.2"  E