Visborg

Visborg (also Wisborg ) was a medieval fortress in the Hanseatic town of Visby on the Baltic island of Gotland, whose ruins in proportion to the church ruins of the city is rather less spectacular today. In 1892 was awarded an allusion to the castle of the title Earl of Wisborg the beaten from the Swedish Royal House Oscar son of the Swedish King Oscar II.

History

The Visburg emerged from 1411 as a fortified castle to protect the harbor in the southwest corner of the city to the city wall, including two already constructed by the brothers Vitali tower structures. The domesticated installation of the large castle-like fortress was completed under the Danish king Eric of Pomerania in 1436. As with all stone buildings on the island, the local limestone was built for the celebrations. King Erik gave her the name and retired to his deposition in 1439 back here to reign as Lord of Gotland to 1448 on. As almost impregnable, the Visborg under the Danish bailiff Søren Norby proved in 1524 for his adversary Gustav Vasa. The Danish fleet leader and unauthorized follower of 1523 already deposed the Danish king Christian II held this not without its own benefit on the loyalty and was distributed in the following year by a strong contingent of Lübeck fleet. The city center of Visby was largely destroyed by the heavy fire. The so-called. Lübeck breach in the city wall still commemorates the storming of the city in 1525. 1679 the Visborg of the retreating Danes was blown up shortly before the surrender of the island to the Sweden and never rebuilt. The building material of the ruin migrated either in Gotland lime kilns or was used in Visby.