Alt Krickenbeck Castle

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Alt Krickenbeck Castle
Alternative name (s): alde Borch , Alt-Krickenbeck
Creation time : First mentioned in 1104
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Count
Place: Nettetal - Leuth
Geographical location 51 ° 20 '15.7 "  N , 6 ° 14' 25.2"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '15.7 "  N , 6 ° 14' 25.2"  E
Height: 40  m above sea level NN
Alt Krickenbeck Castle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Alt Krickenbeck Castle

The castle Old Krickenbeck, also alde Borch or Alt-Krickenbeck called, is a Outbound Wasserburg ( Motte ?) On the western Nice shore south of Leuther mill in the field of Nettetaler district Leuth in Viersen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

Castle Kriekenbeck or Krickenbecke was a knight's seat that belonged at least for a time to the noble family of the Flamenses and founders of the counties of Geldern and Kleve . The first documented owner of the moated castle was Heinrich in 1104, younger son of Count Gerhard II von Wassenberg, and who was Count von Krickenbeck from 1096 to 1118. His family is counted among the old dynasty families , the traces of which, however, disappear around the middle or end of the 12th century and are not yet fully verifiable. The next detectable count at the castle was Reginar von Krickenbeck (1149–1167). In the second half of the 12th century, under Archbishop Philipp I von Heinsberg , Krickenbeck became a fiefdom of the Cologne Archdiocese, as the Archdiocese acquired many areas on the Lower Rhine at that time and then gave them to the provider zu Lehn.

Reginar's daughter, Alveradis von Krickenbeck-Millendonk, married Count Friedrich von Berg-Altena . Their son, Adolf I. Graf von der Mark , Altena and Krickenbeck, sold the “Bona de Crikenbeke” in 1243 to his brother-in-law Otto von Geldern . On March 3, 1243, Count Otto von Geldern acquired it from Count Adolf von der Mark. The Counts of Geldern acquired the castle as early as 1247. At this point in time, the old castle seems to have already been destroyed or at least become uninhabitable, as it is no longer mentioned.

In the middle of the 13th century it was relocated to the Netten lowlands in Hinsbeck. Neu-Krickenbeck was built there between 1244 and 1251, when the "Bona de Crikenbeke" became Geldrisch without the old castle.

description

The former castle hill, which is already called Altkrickenbeck in 1251, was probably surrounded by a double moat . The superstructures must have been made of wood, as indicated by a layer of fire in the castle hill from around the 13th century. The Burgstall (Hinsbecker Straße 34) is now just a grassy elevation. Ceramic finds show pots and jugs that were in use here around 1250.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf G. Jahn in: Genealogy of the Vögte, Counts and Dukes of Geldern, 2001, edited by Johannes Stinner and Karl-Heinz Tekath, p. 32.
  2. ^ Lacomblet, Theodor Joseph: Archive for the history of the Lower Rhine , In: The Lehnhöfe am Niederrhein . IV. Volume, 1863, Düsseldorf, p. [408] 396. Online version
  3. ↑ Ludwig Röhrscheid: Rheinische Vierteljahresblätter, Volume 53, 1989. P. 25.
  4. ^ Karl Bosl: Handbook of Historic Sites in Germany, Volume 3, 1970, p. 434.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Count Heinrich von Kessel, who died near Andernach in 1114, is, according to the more recent view of historians, not identical with Count Heinrich from the House of Flamenses, and was not a Count von Krickenbeck. He could therefore not bequeath the castle to his brother Reginar von Krickenbeck (1149–1167), the Count of Krickenbeck from the middle of the 12th century.