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Specken Castle

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Location: Bad Zwischenahn, Ammerland, Lower Saxony, Germany

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1. New cycle street – Wildenslohlinie loop from Oldenburg-Wechloy

33.6km

02:00

50m

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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2. Railway Path to Zwischenahn – Hunte loop from Wardenburg

47.6km

02:49

100m

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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3. Kokerwindmühle Edewecht – Ekerner Mill loop from Bad Zwischenahn

15.0km

00:53

20m

Easy bike ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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radwalt

September 7, 2023

The stock book of Drosten von Specken documents which householders were subject to levies (serfs) to the Count of Oldenburg in 1428.

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Alwin R 🚲

September 8, 2023

In 1952, the then district archaeologist Dieter Zoller located the location of the castle in what is now the Wiesengrund landscape park. In 2013, two former moats were uncovered here during an excavation. According to this, Specken Castle was a typical late medieval lowland castle with "at least one large building" and a relatively small castle square measuring 30 × 30 meters, surrounded by an inner moat five to six meters wide. According to an assessment of the finds, the castle existed from around 1300 to 1500. The complex had no major military function, but was important as the fortified seat of a ministerial family, whose most important representative was the Oldenburg Drost Jakob von der Specken, who was in charge of the administration and military command in the County of Oldenburg and who wrote the important Oldenburg Salbuch of 1428, a precise list of the possessions and income of the Oldenburg counts.

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Elevation 60 m

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Location: Bad Zwischenahn, Ammerland, Lower Saxony, Germany

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Specken Castle

1. New cycle street – Wildenslohlinie loop from Oldenburg-Wechloy

2. Railway Path to Zwischenahn – Hunte loop from Wardenburg

3. Kokerwindmühle Edewecht – Ekerner Mill loop from Bad Zwischenahn

Other Popular Places to Check Out

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