Bucu

Bucu is a former Slavic castle, which stood on the site of today's castle Lübeck monastery.

History

The Bucu castle was probably built in the 8th century. After the Slavic prince Gottschalk was killed in 1066 in Lenzen, Kruto took over after hard fighting the rule in Wagrien. He neglected the place Liubice and focused traveling upward at a Travelodge between Werder and Wakenitzrestaurant, at the site of the later castle cloister on the Wallburg Bucu. The economic functions were moved to 1127 of Liubice on the city hill Bucu. 1143, Adolf II at this point the present town of Lübeck. End of the 19th century the peninsula. Due to the construction of the Elbe- Lübeck canal and the puncture before the castle gate with the entire Old Town of Lübeck to the island

Excavation

In the 1970s the castle was excavated by archaeologists. The associated settlement, the suburbium, was exposed by rescue excavations in the street area of the Little Gröpelgrube 1997. The exposed space, thereby demonstrating that the area east of the castle of 8/9 was used until the mid-12th century by Slavs as a settlement area.

In the southern portion of today's Great Castle Street protected a 3.5 m wide and 2.5 m deep Sohlgraben the settlement. The northern boundary was probably north of the present King Street. In the west the settlement joined directly to the castle, while they approach presented in the east to the Wakenitzrestaurant. All in all, consisted therefore of the settlement area about 6 ha in the interior of the settlement they found some pit houses, hearths, pits, and especially a large number of pottery finds two continuous culture stories. In the Little Gröpelgrube itself was found the remains of a pottery. Probably the Slavic pottery tradition at this point was to the German hold time into it, because in 1297 the Small Gröpelgrube ( dt = Groper pottery ) as parva platea lutifigulorum (Eng. small street of Lehmtöpfer ) was first mentioned.