Carlsburg, Weser
Carlsburg (also Carolus-Stadt or Carolsburg) was a 17th-century fortified town in Swedish Bremen-Verden at the confluence of the Weser and Geeste rivers, at the site of modern Bremerhaven, Germany. Planned to compete with Bremen, the settlement did not prosper.
After the
The town was planned by Stockholm architect Nicodemus Tessin the Elder. Tessin planned the public buildings and streets. He designated 300 to 456 building grounds for houses. Constructions began on 11 June 1672.
Siege of Carlsburg
Before the construction and settlement plans for Carlsburg could be realised, building work had to be interrupted in 1675, when an alliance of
Later history
When Carlsburg was besieged for a second time in late October 1675, its weakened garrison, decimated by illness and a lack of food, quickly surrendered in January 1676 to Münster and Lüneburg troops. After the surrender the fortress was partially demolished, other damage to its structure were caused by flooding.[2]
In 1675/76, during the Scanian War, the newly created navy of Brandenburg-Prussia launched its first attack on a landside fortification on Carlsburg. The attack however was not successful.
Sweden lost the site in the course of the Great Northern War in 1712. When Bremerhaven was founded in 1827, some of the old Carlsburg walls were levelled.
Sources
- Bisping, Mascha (2003). "Stadtplanung als politische Interpretation eines geographischen Raumes: Carlsburg und Bremerhaven". In Jöchner, Cornelia (ed.). Politische Räume: Stadt und Land in der Frühneuzeit (in German). Berlin: Akademie Verlag. pp. 45–66. ISBN 3-05-003774-1.
- Eichberg, Henning (1976). : Militär und Technik. Schwedenfestungen des 17. Jahrhunderts in den Herzogtümern Bremen und Verden. Düsseldorf: Schwann (in German).
- Elmshäuser, Konrad (2007). Geschichte Bremens. Beck'sche Reihe (in German). Vol. 2605. Munich: Beck. ISBN 3-406-55533-0.
- Gosch, Frank (2003). Festungsbau an Nordsee und Ostsee: die Geschichte der deutschen Küstenbefestigungen bis 1918 (in German). Hamburg: Mittler. ISBN 3-8132-0743-9.
References
- ^ Flugblatt Der rechte Geometrische Grund-Riß / Der von den Schweden im Herßogthumb Bremen an der Weser neu-erbauten Vestung Carolus-Stadt oder Carolsburg / Und eigentliche Beschreibung / was eine Zeithero mit derselben sich zugetragen / und wie sie endlich von den Alliirten zu der Übergabe gezwungen worden., 1680
- ^ Anonym: Theatrum Europaeum. Vol. 11 (1682, pub. 1707), pp. 838 and 993–994