Blens Castle

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Blens Castle
Blens Castle Manor

Blens Castle Manor

Creation time : around 1100
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Received or received substantial parts
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Blens
Geographical location 50 ° 39 '34 "  N , 6 ° 28' 59"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '34 "  N , 6 ° 28' 59"  E
Height: 205  m above sea level NHN
Blens Castle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Blens Castle

The castle Blens is at 205  m above sea level. NHN on the eastern edge of Blens , a district of Heimbach (Eifel) above the Rur in the Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

Already at the beginning of the 12th century a Johannes de Blens sealed the seal . In 1380 the de Blens family died out in the male line. The Höhenburg then passed through marriage to the von Berg family , who died out in 1550. Agnes von Blens inherited the facility. Through marriages, the castle came to Baron Beissel von Gymnich via Baron Raitz von Frentz in the 18th century. In the 20th century, through marriage, the castle came to the von Abercron family through Georg Anton Beissel von Gymnich , who still own and inhabit it today.

The castle is a four-wing farm yard with a two-storey rectangular mansion made of rubble stone with a half-hip roof , which was built around 1791. From the previous medieval hilltop castle only the stump of a round tower and some remains of the curtain wall are preserved. The paving of the courtyard with Rur pebbles, which is still preserved today, is a rarity.

The Codex Welser from 1723 shows a three-winged outer bailey with a core bailey. It was a three-story building with three stepped gables at the courtyard and rear. The keep at the rear of the main castle towered over it. A round tower was attached to the right corner of the main castle facing the courtyard.

In the immediate vicinity to the northwest of the castle complex is the St. Georg chapel .

Blens Castle, aerial photo (2015)

literature

  • Bernhard Gondorf: The castles of the Eifel and their peripheral areas. A lexicon of the "permanent houses" . J. P. Bachem, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7616-0723-7 , p. 86 .

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