Bredevoort Castle
| Bredevoort Castle | ||
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 Bredevoort Castle around 1597 |
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| Creation time : | 12th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Bredevoort | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 56 '38.8 " N , 6 ° 37' 6.4" E | |
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Bredevoort Castle is an abandoned castle in the heart of the city of Bredevoort . It was the center of the former glory Bredevoort in the Netherlands .
The exact date of construction is unknown, but around 1188 the castle was named on a list of properties from Kurköln . In 1238 the castle came into the possession of the Counts of Lohn and the Lords of Steinfurt through inheritance . Hermann I von Lohn and Ludolf von Steinfurt had the fort significantly reinforced, and under Hermann II von Lohn the bed of the Boven sling was moved to Bredevoort in order to flood the castle grounds. 1246 and 1255, the Lohner contributed their share of the castle as well as some parishes located in the Achterhoek the Guelders Count Otto II. The fief on.
In 1278, Hermann II captured Count Engelbert I of the Mark and arrested him at Bredevoort Castle, where he died after 16 days in prison. Thereupon his son Eberhard II von der Mark besieged and destroyed the fortress, forced the surrender of his father's body and had him buried in the Cappenberg monastery.
When Baldwin von Steinfurt sold his share in Bredevoort Castle to the Monastery of Münster in 1284 , the Count of Geldern and the Bishop of Münster had become lords of Bredevoort in equal parts. This laid the foundation for the great Bredevoort feud , which after the death of Hermann II von Lohn in 1316 caused acts of war to break out over the Westmünsterland . The feud was only resolved in 1326 with the peace treaty of Wesel. Since then, the Counts of Geldern have been the sole masters of Bredevoort Castle.
Bredevoort Castle was one of the most important castles in Geldern and was destroyed by the Powder Tower disaster in 1646.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the city of Bredevoort
- ↑ a b c Rene AM Martens: draft dossier - Hertog Reinald-II van Gelre en graaf van Zutphen (1295-1344) (pdf) 2012, accessed on February 23, 2016 (Dutch).
- ^ Wilhelm Kohl in Germania Sacra NF 37.3, The Dioceses of the Church Province of Cologne. The diocese of Münster 7.2. The diocese. , P. 357.