Rastede – From castle to castle (2 days)
On this wonderful round trip between the castle of Rastede and the castle of Oldenburg, we tell you 16 legends and fairytales.
Rastede – From castle to castle (2 days)
On this wonderful round trip between the castle of Rastede and the castle of Oldenburg, we tell you 16 legends and fairytales.
Castles
Spend your holidays where once the noble lived. Today, the motto prevails: „Eala Frya Fresena – Welcome, free Friesians.“ Farmer’s municipalities – farm republics – formed a kind of “Friesian UN” of the Middle Ages. They developed strategies to defend Friesian liberty and discussed Friesian law issues. The “Thingstätte“ Upstalsboom at Aurich-Rahe reminds of the ancient assembly place of envoys of the “Sieben Seelande” (seven sea lands).
In the middle of the 14th century, Friesian liberty made way for the reign of chiefs (later counts and princes). They rallied followers and built castles and citadels. This was done to strengthen their power – and to make tourists happy today. Dive into Friesian history: search for traces of tradition and culture of the East Friesians behind brick walls and moats. The particularity here is that some of the historic walls house descendants of ancient nobility. And they have the same problems as all others to preserve the monuments. Events – sometimes the locations are used as film backgrounds – help to collect money to preserve the historic buildings from aging.
Castle Gödens in Sande
In 1671, the castle surrounded by moats was built in its present form in the style of Dutch Baroque by Freiherr Haro Burchard v. Frydag. The north-east wing was built by using rests of the castle built in the Dutch Renaissance style and burned down in 1669.
Castle Norderburg in Dornum
Around 1400, there were three castles at Dornum: the Wester, Oster and Norder castle. The Westerburg was destroyed during the „Sächsischen Fehde“ (Saxonian feud) in 1514 and not rebuilt.
Castle Evenburg in Leer-Loga
The origins of the Evenburg are connected with the Dutch colonel Ehrentreuter, who built the Dutch-baroque castle surrounded by moats from 1642-50 for his wife Eva von Ungnad. Then, the castle changed ownership over to the Counts von Wedel and was rebuilt in new Gothic style...
