Beyenburg Castle
| Beyenburg Castle | ||
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 The retaining walls on the slope of the Beyenburger reservoir |
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| Castle type : | Spurburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Wuppertal , Beyenburg | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 14 '58 " N , 7 ° 17' 53" E | |
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The castle Beyenburg was a spur castle on a hill in a Wupper loop next to the monastery stone house in what is now Wuppertal Beyenburg .
history
The Beyenburg was first mentioned in a document in 1336. Due to the poor location, the time when the castle was built has not yet been clarified. Either it was not built before the 14th century or the presumably older part of the castle is elsewhere. Due to the strategic importance of Beyenburg on the Wupper border between the counties of Berg and Mark and its location on one of the trade routes between Cologne and northern Germany that existed at least from the early Middle Ages, such a presumption is reasonable.
The castle served the Counts of Berg and later the Dukes of Jülich-Berg , their relatives and the court as an interim residence, especially in the 15th century and as the official seat of the Bergische Amt Beyenburg . An inventory from the 16th century has survived. The castle was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War in 1646 .
The traces of the complex (the largely undeveloped castle grounds and two retaining walls on the slope) have been recognized as a ground monument since November 22, 2004.
The office of Beyenburg was administered from the castle .
literature
- Gerd Helbeck , Beyenburg. History of a place on the Bergisch-Mark border and its surrounding area. Volume 1: The Middle Ages. Basics and advancement. Association for local history Schwelm, Schwelm 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811749-1-5 .
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal soil monument list
Remarks
- ↑ Gerd Helbeck: Beyenburg as a royal residence ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Gerd Helbeck: An inventory of the Beyenburg castle and the Dörner Hof in Barmen from 1597. In: Contributions to the local history of the city of Schwelm and its surroundings. NF Vol. 51, 2002, ISSN 0343-2785 , pp. 53-64.
- ↑ City of Wuppertal: List of monuments ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
