Post by Daniel Silk on Oct 19, 2010 16:09:06 GMT
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Silkeborg is one of the few cities that have a precise date of its foundation, since it was established as a trading center by royal decree of 7 januar 1846th Silkeborg is far older, and as the name suggests, contains the city also remains of a fortress or a castle dating back to medieval times, when Silkeborg in turn was owned by noble persons, bishops and kings.
Silkeborg Castle stood on a projecting promontory where Remstrup Oh, this part of Gudenåen states flows into Lake Langsoe. There can be no sure explanation for the name Silkeborg, but people tradition relates the following legend, which is known in different variations: "Four mil from Aarhus, near Gudenåen, lies the old farm, Silkeborg, in a gay district, surrounded by forests and lakes. It must have been given this name of a bishop, Sir Peter, who once wanted to build himself a house, but long time not knowing where he would build. Once he sailed on Gudenåen and train on the way his silkehue of the head and let it float on water , saying that where it flowed in the country that he would build the farm. Thus he found instead, and when the farm was built, he called it Silkeborg. "
While it is true that Silkeborg through long periods were owned by Aarhus bishops, is the legend, however, not correct. The other day "silk" is derived probably from Old Norse Selja that can both mean a certain type of willow tree that grows in swampy ground or imply stagnant or slowly flowing water. Silkeborg name means in this case "castle by the stagnant water." Another interpretation suggests that the word should be understood as a poetic and laudatory name such as. "Guldborg".
When the brothers Drewsen in 1844 began construction of their new paper factory near the palace area, was the last of the palace buildings long since removed, and during the city's first, frantic nybyggerår faded memory of Silkeborg Castle so much that the castle was known only through the written sources. To remedy this made paper factory's new owner, NC Strøyberg, with the help of J.B. Løffler from the National Museum, a major excavation in 1880-82, by which the foundations and no pilots under the big stone house at the edge of Slotsholmen were exposed and measured.
The author and local historian Edv. Egeberg investigated Silkeborg Castle's history through extensive archival research, inter alia, shell accounts, property records and chancellery letters books. Silkeborg City Council elected in 1923-24 to publish Edv. Egeberg enormous material trebindsværket "Silkeborg Castle" on the occasion of 25 anniversary as a borough in 1925. This had the young city had its history told.
In 1949-52 the National Museum again did extensive excavations at Silkeborg Castle at EC Norn, both on site Slotsholmen and courtyard area. The excavations confirmed the broadly written sources of information and showed that Silkeborg Castle, like many other castles contains many construction phases and traces of numerous conversions.
Since Silkeborg was borough in 1900, was the city of course, have a cleanup. City council chose a coat of arms designed by architect Anton Rosen, who was based in the legend of Bishop Peter, Silkeborg Castle. The motif is a shield with a miter at the top, center, a castle and bottom Gudenåen.
Because of the swampy terrain was conducted extensive pilot call under the buildings, and as the humid conditions had provided good conditions for preservation of wood and other organic material were the National Museum's excavations followed by Silkeborg Museum with new surveys in 1981, which was sampled of timber structures for dendrochronological of the castle's various construction phases.
When the paper mill closed in 2000 the area was opened, and interest in Silkeborg past flared up again. The 2004-05 did the Department of Medieval Archaeology at University of Aarhus new excavations on the castle area with Silkeborg Museum, to create new knowledge, and to locate the poles of oak, which might allow a precise dating of the oldest Silkeborg.
Founded year 1385
The new excavations succeeded beyond all expectations and the results of various studies show that the oldest castle, 'Silkeborg, "consisted of a small fortified islet with a diameter of only approx. 13 meters. The small castle was built at the edge of a flat headland, which was isolated from the mainland by a dug a moat with a width of 6-7 meters and a depth of nearly a meter. Moat sides were protected by a patchwork of osier, and the whole islet was surrounded by powerful, piles, forming an irregular, almost glittering palisadeværk. A small protrusion to the south east gave access to the island via a bridge.
Due to the humid conditions was the lower portion of the bars around the island very well preserved and the excavation in 2004 succeeded, among the many identified uprights, to find five pillars of oak, which could be dated using measurements of pillars growth rings. The dating was made on Wormianum laboratory of dendrokronologen Carsten Sønderby, and shows that the oldest SILKEBORG was founded in early summer 1385th
In the middle of the tikantede islet were traces of a solid tower that was built by very strong oak. Tower's size and design can not be determined with certainty, but the building has had an approximately square base of approx. 30 square meters. The dating of three of the building egestolper show that the tower was built around 1389th Construction of the small castle thus has spanned several years, so despite the turmoil in the country, has apparently be fairly peaceful around Silkeborg in these years.
The small fortified SILKEBORG is characteristic of the turbulent 1300-years when the country was in civil war and a period without a king. In those years it was common for lords built himself a castle in the rough and wet terrain. Fortresses were usually of modest dimensions, and has not been used as a permanent resident,
but rather as a refuge, where the squire and his household could entrench and defend themselves if threatened strife. The farm where they lived on a daily basis, must have been nearby, probably somewhere on the paper factory grounds.
In Midtjylland is similar plants found in Thor Lake by Virklund on Dyna in Julsø by Kongsø south of Bryrup by Søbygård Lake and at Ilensborg near Kongensbro. The many private castles around the country constituted a threat to royal power, and therefore the construction of private castles forbidden by Queen Margrethe the first by a regulation from 1396 which states that "because there has been tremendous little right from the fortresses, which now built, so we forbid the building of several forts or Barfred for the country must come faster in order and get more peace, divisions and right ". The little castle on Long Lake has therefore been among the very last of this type.
With the dating of growth rings in the five egestolper got Silkeborg his "birth certificate", and from written sources, we can also put the name of "Silkeborg's" founder, who must be nobleman Erik Mouse, whose magnificent coat of arms displays the image of the temporal latest technology - a water mill wheel.
Silkeborg is one of the few cities that have a precise date of its foundation, since it was established as a trading center by royal decree of 7 januar 1846th Silkeborg is far older, and as the name suggests, contains the city also remains of a fortress or a castle dating back to medieval times, when Silkeborg in turn was owned by noble persons, bishops and kings.
Silkeborg Castle stood on a projecting promontory where Remstrup Oh, this part of Gudenåen states flows into Lake Langsoe. There can be no sure explanation for the name Silkeborg, but people tradition relates the following legend, which is known in different variations: "Four mil from Aarhus, near Gudenåen, lies the old farm, Silkeborg, in a gay district, surrounded by forests and lakes. It must have been given this name of a bishop, Sir Peter, who once wanted to build himself a house, but long time not knowing where he would build. Once he sailed on Gudenåen and train on the way his silkehue of the head and let it float on water , saying that where it flowed in the country that he would build the farm. Thus he found instead, and when the farm was built, he called it Silkeborg. "
While it is true that Silkeborg through long periods were owned by Aarhus bishops, is the legend, however, not correct. The other day "silk" is derived probably from Old Norse Selja that can both mean a certain type of willow tree that grows in swampy ground or imply stagnant or slowly flowing water. Silkeborg name means in this case "castle by the stagnant water." Another interpretation suggests that the word should be understood as a poetic and laudatory name such as. "Guldborg".
When the brothers Drewsen in 1844 began construction of their new paper factory near the palace area, was the last of the palace buildings long since removed, and during the city's first, frantic nybyggerår faded memory of Silkeborg Castle so much that the castle was known only through the written sources. To remedy this made paper factory's new owner, NC Strøyberg, with the help of J.B. Løffler from the National Museum, a major excavation in 1880-82, by which the foundations and no pilots under the big stone house at the edge of Slotsholmen were exposed and measured.
The author and local historian Edv. Egeberg investigated Silkeborg Castle's history through extensive archival research, inter alia, shell accounts, property records and chancellery letters books. Silkeborg City Council elected in 1923-24 to publish Edv. Egeberg enormous material trebindsværket "Silkeborg Castle" on the occasion of 25 anniversary as a borough in 1925. This had the young city had its history told.
In 1949-52 the National Museum again did extensive excavations at Silkeborg Castle at EC Norn, both on site Slotsholmen and courtyard area. The excavations confirmed the broadly written sources of information and showed that Silkeborg Castle, like many other castles contains many construction phases and traces of numerous conversions.
Since Silkeborg was borough in 1900, was the city of course, have a cleanup. City council chose a coat of arms designed by architect Anton Rosen, who was based in the legend of Bishop Peter, Silkeborg Castle. The motif is a shield with a miter at the top, center, a castle and bottom Gudenåen.
Because of the swampy terrain was conducted extensive pilot call under the buildings, and as the humid conditions had provided good conditions for preservation of wood and other organic material were the National Museum's excavations followed by Silkeborg Museum with new surveys in 1981, which was sampled of timber structures for dendrochronological of the castle's various construction phases.
When the paper mill closed in 2000 the area was opened, and interest in Silkeborg past flared up again. The 2004-05 did the Department of Medieval Archaeology at University of Aarhus new excavations on the castle area with Silkeborg Museum, to create new knowledge, and to locate the poles of oak, which might allow a precise dating of the oldest Silkeborg.
Founded year 1385
The new excavations succeeded beyond all expectations and the results of various studies show that the oldest castle, 'Silkeborg, "consisted of a small fortified islet with a diameter of only approx. 13 meters. The small castle was built at the edge of a flat headland, which was isolated from the mainland by a dug a moat with a width of 6-7 meters and a depth of nearly a meter. Moat sides were protected by a patchwork of osier, and the whole islet was surrounded by powerful, piles, forming an irregular, almost glittering palisadeværk. A small protrusion to the south east gave access to the island via a bridge.
Due to the humid conditions was the lower portion of the bars around the island very well preserved and the excavation in 2004 succeeded, among the many identified uprights, to find five pillars of oak, which could be dated using measurements of pillars growth rings. The dating was made on Wormianum laboratory of dendrokronologen Carsten Sønderby, and shows that the oldest SILKEBORG was founded in early summer 1385th
In the middle of the tikantede islet were traces of a solid tower that was built by very strong oak. Tower's size and design can not be determined with certainty, but the building has had an approximately square base of approx. 30 square meters. The dating of three of the building egestolper show that the tower was built around 1389th Construction of the small castle thus has spanned several years, so despite the turmoil in the country, has apparently be fairly peaceful around Silkeborg in these years.
The small fortified SILKEBORG is characteristic of the turbulent 1300-years when the country was in civil war and a period without a king. In those years it was common for lords built himself a castle in the rough and wet terrain. Fortresses were usually of modest dimensions, and has not been used as a permanent resident,
but rather as a refuge, where the squire and his household could entrench and defend themselves if threatened strife. The farm where they lived on a daily basis, must have been nearby, probably somewhere on the paper factory grounds.
In Midtjylland is similar plants found in Thor Lake by Virklund on Dyna in Julsø by Kongsø south of Bryrup by Søbygård Lake and at Ilensborg near Kongensbro. The many private castles around the country constituted a threat to royal power, and therefore the construction of private castles forbidden by Queen Margrethe the first by a regulation from 1396 which states that "because there has been tremendous little right from the fortresses, which now built, so we forbid the building of several forts or Barfred for the country must come faster in order and get more peace, divisions and right ". The little castle on Long Lake has therefore been among the very last of this type.
With the dating of growth rings in the five egestolper got Silkeborg his "birth certificate", and from written sources, we can also put the name of "Silkeborg's" founder, who must be nobleman Erik Mouse, whose magnificent coat of arms displays the image of the temporal latest technology - a water mill wheel.