Old Castle (Nörvenich)
| Old castle | ||
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 Ditch at the former castle site |
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| Alternative name (s): | Sunken castle | |
| Castle type : | Hill castle, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Ditches, walls | |
| Place: | Norvenich | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 48 '48.5 " N , 6 ° 38' 33" E | |
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The old castle , also known as the sunken castle , is the ruin of a hilltop castle of the type of a tower hill castle (moth) in the forest near Nörvenich in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Düren . Their remains are about 500 meters north of Nörvenich on the steep slope of the Neffelbach , a tectonic settlement.
description
The castle complex is a so-called large moth . The main castle was built in stone and must have been inhabited in the 13th century. Hermann IV von Saffenberg is mentioned as lord of the castle .
The castle was about 60 by 35 meters. A ditch about 25 to 30 meters wide and ten meters deep separated the horseshoe-shaped outer bailey from the main castle. The outer bailey with its six to eight meter wide walls and ditches was five meters lower than the main castle. In the longest extension, the outer bailey was about 100 meters, in front of the main moat about 90 meters wide, and about 70 meters in the middle.
Today only a few remains of the wall are left. On January 3, 1986, the complex was entered in the list of archaeological monuments in Nörvenich under No. 4.
The Counts of Nörvenich
Owner of the castle
| year | owner |
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| around 1100 | Filling of the castle hill to the Motte |
| until 1177 | The Counts of Nörvenich / Saffenberg (last was Adalbert III.), Then by marriage of daughter Alveradis to Count Wilhelm II. Von Jülich |
| 1208 | Alveradis (1163–1245) in second marriage to Otto II, Count von Hochstaden , Lord von Wickrath (his third marriage) 1170–1249 |
| around 1341 | Dietrich Pythane von Nörvenich (bailiff and robber baron) |
| 1351 | Knight Reinhard von Vlatten (bailiff) |
| 1356 | Administrative seat of the officers of Nörvenich |
| 1394 | Magistrate Werner von Vlatten-Merode, relocation of the official seat to “Haus Nörvenich”, the predecessor of Gymnich Castle, later Nörvenich Castle |
| around 1400 | The castle is abandoned |
| 1925 | Foundations exposed, now owned by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia |
Leftovers 1982
