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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Slawenburg Rugard Alternative Name: RujanenburgCountry: Germany Land: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Bergen auf Rügen
Latitude: 54.421574N Longitude: 13.444444E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Boeddel visited on 30th Mar 2024 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Before I went to the harbor to go to Bornholm, I finally had to visit this hillfort.
The complex has a pointed oval floor plan and consists of a plateau-like, slightly square main castle and a slightly lower one outer bailey. The two-part castle is surrounded by an outer wall that is still 5 to 10 m high. The entire outside of the castle wall was surrounded by a wide and dry moat. Unfortunately, it is not possible to trace when the first castle complex was built on the "Rugard". Multi-part Slavic hillforts on the mainland of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania were more of an early Slavic phenomenon in the late 8th to 9th centuries.
During the Danish conquest of Rügen in the summer of 1168, the still heathen Jaromar I resided. in the “Rugard” hillfort. After the surrender, he accepted Christianity and founded the first Christian church in 1180 instead of today's St. Mary's Church. Jaromar I died around 1218 and was probably buried in the area of the church he founded. The so-called “Jaromarstein” can still be found in the west facade of St. Mary’s Church today. It is believed that this is the tombstone of Jaromir I.
The last slavic, but christian, reside in the "Rugard" hillfort was Wizlaw III, who died childless in 1325. Shortly after his death, the hillfort was probably finally abandoned.
On the 100th birthday of the writer and historian "Ernst-Moritz-Arndt", who was born on Rügen, it was decided in 1869 to build a lookout tower in his memory on the Rugard. In 1877 the tower was finally completed. During GDR times (1970) a new restaurant was built on the main castle area.
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