Buschdorf Castle
| Buschdorf Castle | ||
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 Front of the tower stump and the residential building on the side, September 2007 |
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| Creation time : | First mentioned in 1217 | |
| Castle type : | Location | |
| Conservation status: | receive | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Buschdorf | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 45 '40 .6 " N , 7 ° 2' 53.6" E | |
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The Burg Buschdorf is a former knight's seat in the bush village in the district of Bonn . The castle complex, which used to be surrounded by a moat, is privately owned and is a listed building .
location
The building ensemble is located on the left bank of the Rhine in the northwest of Buschdorf at Buschdorfer Straße 1 (formerly also Burggasse 36 ) and thus on the far northwest edge of the Bonn city area. The village of Hersel , which already belongs to Bornheim, begins only around 300 meters away. Buschdorfer Strasse , which is rarely used here today , has been part of an important trade route from Aachen via Düren , Lechenich and Buschdorf to Bonn ("Aachener Weg") since the early Middle Ages .
history
The exact date of construction of the castle is unknown. Originally it was a residential and defense tower that served to secure the trade route between Aachen and Bonn. Around the end of the 12th century, it was expanded into a castle complex with an integrated manor. This complex was surrounded by a moat. The castle was first mentioned in 1217. The Cistercian monastery in Graurheindorf is named as the beneficiary of the estate , which in turn had to pay taxes from this property to the Electorate of Cologne .
From the 18th century onwards, the complex was owned by various families (e.g. the von Kleists and the Bassenheims). In 1822 the Frings family leased the estate and in 1843 they became the owners of the complex. In 1874 there was a major fire that damaged the farm buildings and upper floors of the tower. The buildings were partially rebuilt and in a different form (with field fire bricks in the style of the time) by 1876.
Since the last Frings died childless, the property passed to his estate manager Hermann Watterott in 1930, who subsequently took the name Frings-Watterott. The farm was converted to apple cultivation by Frings-Watterott in 1936. It was the first noble fruit plantation in Buschdorf. During the Second World War , the courtyard was hit by an aerial bomb in 1941, damaged and rebuilt. Today there is a wine wholesaler on the estate. The descendants of Hermann Frings-Watterott live in the former castle buildings.
architecture
The central building of the castle is the earlier tower, which was originally higher. Its floor plan is square with a side length of 10 meters each. The wall thickness on the ground floor is around 2 meters. The wall thicknesses are less on the upper floors. Today it has three floors. Basalt , tuff and trachyte were used as building materials for the quarry stone construction in the lower part , and the bricks used after the fire in the upper part. The interior was rebuilt several times. All floors are inhabited today. On the south side of the tower there is a walled-up light gap that served as a lamp replacement.
Josef and Peter Frings erected a castle cross in 1880, which stands on Buschdorfer Straße about 200 meters west of the castle complex, on the other side of the Rheinuferbahn , between two linden trees.
Trivia
The later professional boxer Adolf Heuser worked in the 1920s as a farmhand in the Buschdorfer Burghof.
See also
Web links
- Burkhard Fehse, Station 10: Castle view at: zeitreise.buschdorf.de
- Buschdorf (Bonn) at: GenWiki
- Buschdorfer Burg at: geocaching.com, source: Bonner General-Anzeiger
References and comments
- ↑ List of monuments of the City of Bonn , Lower Monument Authority, from June 1, 2017, No. A 1105, Buschdorfer Straße , p. 14 ( Memento from February 9, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Bonner Geschichtsblätter , year 40, Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein , Verein Alt-Bonn and Stadtarchiv Bonn, Der Verein, 1993, p. 8
- ↑ Entry on Buschdorf Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
- ^ Website of the wine wholesaler "Le Petit France"
- ↑ The cross is also a listed building, list entry No. A 3599
- ^ Reminder of the "Bulldog from the Rhine" , October 3, 2007, Bonner General-Anzeiger