Ülpenich Castle

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Ülpenich Castle
Alternative name (s): Nideggener Hof
Creation time : 12th century
Castle type : Moated castle
Conservation status: Burstall
Place: Ülpenich
Geographical location 50 ° 40 ′ 30.8 "  N , 6 ° 40 ′ 37.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 30.8 "  N , 6 ° 40 ′ 37.6"  E
Ülpenich Castle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Ülpenich Castle

The castle Ülpenich an Outbound Wasserburg in Ülpenich , a district of Zülpich in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The castle was probably west of the town on the Rotbach . In 1817 there were still small visible remains of the property.

For the first time a Johannes von Ulpech is mentioned in 1140. He will have been the owner of the castle. He was a member of a local aristocratic family that belonged to the knighthood from 1321 with Kuno von Ulpich . The noble court is mentioned again and again. That should have been the farm that Dietrich Schinnemann von Aue ( Kreuzau ) sold to the Nideggen monastery in 1385 . Both the place Ülpenich and the former aristocratic estate were destroyed in the War of the Geldr Succession and rebuilt elsewhere in 1559.

literature

  • Harald Herzog: Castles and palaces, history and typology of the aristocratic seats in the Euskirchen district . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7927-1226-1 , p. 472.