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The structure of its defense wall is capable of holding back the high tides and is therefore built like a typical dam. The wall had a tree containing core, shaped like two camel humps filled up with earth in the middle and topped with earth and turf. The castle was 171 meters in width and 156 meters
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wrote in 1075, what became long believed origin of the Neue Burg. Adam said, the castle was in possession of Ordulf and built in 1061. This myth got debunked in 2014, from research following the excavations superviced by Kai-Peter
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In 1066 and 1072 Hamburg and the New castle got attacked by slawik troops, but the castle came back to use both times. In 1110 the castle became possession of the
Schauenburger dynasty. 1139 the castle came out of function after it got destroyed by a third, this time fatal attack. At least this is
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canal. It had two ports, one in the north opening up to an old trade route and one in the east that led to the harbor. The trade route in the north is the same that passed the old
Hammaburg. It leads to the Ochsenweg, which was the main traffic artery through what is now Schleswig-Holstein and the
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Hamburg turned out to be a problem for archaeological research in relation to medieval castles in general. After Hamburg burned down in 1842, the medieval period got erased entirely. Even the churches are mere reconstructions of reconstructions.
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was the biggest fortification of northern
Germany at its time, other castles consisting of wood and earth, built some hundred kilometers to the north, outsized it by a lot. It is tiny in comparison to the Danish king Harald Bluetooth'
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2014/2015: Location: Hopfenmarkt. Led by: Kay-Peter
Suchowa. Thanks to dendrochronological analysis, it was possible to date the construction of the castle at round about 1021–1025. This was significantly earlier than
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1968/69: It was possible to discover a port in the North. The excavation site was severely damaged and disturbed by construction works at this time, so the undertaking was hasty and restricted in its possible outcome.
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in lengths. The wall surrounded an area of 7800 m and is estimated to have been 36 meters in width. A palisade is thought to be on the wall. This theory is based on excavations of similar saxonian castles.
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wrote. The following fifty years the castle was out of use, until Adolf of
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suggested. As a consequence his telling got proven wrong and the time gap between the existence of the
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