Bodendorf Castle

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Bodendorf Castle
Bodendorf Castle

Bodendorf Castle

Creation time : Early 13th century
Castle type : Niederungsburg, location
Conservation status: receive
Place: Sinzig - Bad Bodendorf
Geographical location 50 ° 33 '24.7 "  N , 7 ° 13' 1.4"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 33 '24.7 "  N , 7 ° 13' 1.4"  E
Bodendorf Castle (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Bodendorf Castle
Bodendorf Castle in Bad Bodendorf

The Castle Bodendorf is a former moated castle in the district of Bad Bodendorf the city Sinzig in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Ahrweiler .

The complex is a Niederungsburg , which is a listed building.

history

The castle was built as a moated castle by Nicolo von Bodendorf at the beginning of the 13th century. Together with Landskron Castle, it secured the Aachen-Frankfurter Heerstraße , which led past it. Later owners were the gentlemen von Randerath, Spies von Büllesheim and others.

Between 1533 and 1608 the castle was uninhabited and fell into disrepair. After the reconstruction, the castle and village were plundered and set on fire by imperial troops during the Thirty Years War under General von Weerth. After the end of the Thirty Years War, the facility was rebuilt. Looting and pillage were repeated in 1667, 1676 and 1692 when it was ravaged by French troops.

In 1772 the castle was surrounded by a wall and moat. Soon after, the dilapidated tower was torn down and the moat filled in. The cobblestone courtyard with a mighty linden tree was redesigned in the 18th century. The four-wing system has a hipped roof .

In 1929 the naturopath Matthias Leisen bought the castle after discovering a radium-containing spring nearby . The water was used by him to treat his patients in the castle.

Castle owner

  • approx. 1200 to 1400: Knight of Bodendorf
  • approx. 1400 to 1450: Knight of Randerode
  • 1450 to 1655: Lords of Spieß and von Büllesheim
  • 1600 to 1635: Pledge holder: Calenius
  • 1635 to 1750: Owners and residents of the castle: the Calenius family
  • 1750 to 1803: Oekoven family
  • Mid-19th century: Joseph von Groote , Chancellor of the Cologne Archbishopric
  • from 1912: Franz Freiherr von Spies
  • from 1929: Anton Knieps
  • 1929 to 1940: Matthias Leisen

literature

  • Hans Haffke : The Bodendorfer Castle in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: Ahrweiler district's homeland yearbook 1960 . Schiffer, Rheinberg 1960, ISSN  0342-5827 , pp. 45-48 ( online ).
  • Jakob Rausch: Bodendorf had its own castle. History of the castle until 1800 . In: Ahrweiler district's homeland yearbook 1960 . Schiffer, Rheinberg 1960, ISSN  0342-5827 , pp. 43-45 ( online ).
  • Karl-August Seel: Did Bodendorf have a second castle? In: Home Yearbook of the Ahrweiler District 2010 . Weiss, Monschau 2010, ISSN  0342-5827 , pp. 152-154 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Burg Bodendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Ahrweiler district. Mainz 2020, p. 67 (PDF; 5.1 MB; Bahnhofstrasse 2).