Old Castle (Lommersdorf)

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Old castle
Creation time : middle Ages
Castle type : Höhenburg, spur location
Conservation status: Burgstall, small remains
Standing position : Noblemen
Place: Lommersdorf
Geographical location 50 ° 23 '46.2 "  N , 6 ° 44' 34.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '46.2 "  N , 6 ° 44' 34.6"  E
Height: 431  m above sea level NHN
Old Castle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Old castle

The old castle near Lommersdorf in the municipality of Blankenheim in the district of Euskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia is a disused medieval castle complex .

The facility is located about 900 meters north of the Ahr, above Ahrhütte in the Mühlenbachtal on the L 105. On the east side, the slope drops rapidly from around 431  m above sea level. NHN at Burgplatz, to the foot at around 378 meters.

The spur castle, which is only small in size, probably went under in the late Middle Ages. According to Jansen, the two-part system belongs to the “group of two-part moths .” What is unusual, however, is its small size. At best, there was room for a tower on the small, conical hill with a diameter of four meters and its location on a mountain plateau. In 1928, Wackenroder found remains of stone that indicate the former masonry. No wall remains or other solid components can be seen locally from the complex, which has not yet been archaeologically investigated.

A family of those "von Lommersdorf" is attested by documents from 1455 and 1478 with Johann von Lommersdorf. There is no evidence of a connection between these and the castle complex. Possibly the plant was connected to the mining of brown iron stone , which was mined here for smelting in the nearby ironworks .

literature

  • Harald Herzog: Castles and palaces, history and typology of the aristocratic seats in the Euskirchen district . Rhineland publishing house. Cologne 1989. ISBN 3-7927-1067-6 . P. 378.
  • Walter Janssen : Studies on the desert issue in the Franconian old settlements between the Rhine, Moselle and the north edge of the Eifel. (= Bonner Jahrbücher, supplement 35) Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-7927-0207-X , Part II, pp. 73f.
  • Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Schleiden district. (= The art monuments of the Rhine Province . Volume 11, Part II). Schwann 1932 (reprint 1982 ISBN 3-590-32116-4 ). P. 239.

Web links

  • Entry on Lommersdorf in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
  • Entry on Lommersdorf in the private database "Alle Burgen".