Aldeburg

Aldeburg
	The castle site
Alternative name (s):	Keltenring, old castle "de ahl burch"
Creation time :	Early Middle Ages, first mentioned around 1530
Castle type :	Höhenburg, hillside location
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Place:	Bornheim - Walberberg
Geographical location	50 ° 47 '5.3 " N , 6 ° 54' 12.7" E Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '5.3 " N , 6 ° 54' 12.7" E
Height:	140 m above sea level NHN

The Aldeburg , also known as the Keltenring or old castle and popularly known as "de ahl burch", is an abandoned early medieval hilltop castle ( ring wall system ) on a hillside at 140 m above sea level. NHN about 450 meters southwest of the Kitzburger Mühle in the Bornheim district of Walberberg in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The earth wall was first mentioned in writing around 1530 in the “Weisthum der Herrlichkeit Walberberg”.

The castle stables of the Aldeburg (Latin "altus" - high), hidden in a beech forest, shows a 4 meter high wall in the north with a ditch in front of it , which ends in a swampy waterhole, as well as another rampart with a ditch. The 0.6 hectare oval complex is one of the smaller circular ramparts and was probably an early refuge .

literature

Bernhard Gondorf: The castles of the Eifel and their peripheral areas. A lexicon of the "permanent houses" . J. P. Bachem, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7616-0723-7 , p. 50 (Motte Aldeburg).

Web links

Aldeburg at walberberg.info
Nature reserve “Celtic Ringwall and Kerbtal” in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia

Individual evidence

Position information according to GeoServer NRW, district government Cologne, department GEObasis NRW (German base map 1: 5000)