Cloppenburg Castle
| Cloppenburg Castle | ||
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 Remains of the castle Cloppenburg, in the background the office building |
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| Creation time : | before 1297 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, location | |
| Conservation status: | Remains of the foundation | |
| Standing position : | Count, clerical | |
| Place: | Cloppenburg | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 50 '49.5 " N , 8 ° 2' 42" E | |
| Height: | 40 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Cloppenburg is the ruin of a medieval stronghold in Cloppenburg (Burgstrasse 9) in the district of Cloppenburg in Lower Saxony .
history
Around 1297 Count Otto III. of Tecklenburg to secure the sovereignty the fortification Cloppenburg in the immediate vicinity of the settlement Krapendorf at a Soesteniederung built on a farm in Hemesburen (Hemmelsbühren). The first documentary mention was made during a property exchange on January 5, 1297.
After the bishops of Münster and Osnabrück and the cities of Münster and Osnabrück had concluded an alliance on June 18, 1393 , the "Cloppenburg" was conquered in the same year. It came to the Bishop of Münster Otto IV von Hoya on December 28, 1396 after Bishop Dietrich von Osnabrück had ceded his share in Cloppenburg.
On October 25, 1400, Count Nikolaus II of Tecklenburg renounced the rule, the office and the castle of Cloppenburg. Bishop Otto von Münster then had the Cloppenburg expanded and expanded.
On August 24, 1716, the castle buildings were destroyed in the great fire in Cloppenburg. In 1805 the remaining castle tower was blown up and an office building was partly built on the foundations of the old castle buildings. In 1909 the district court was built on the former castle grounds. On June 20, 1960 the inauguration of the district office took place on the former castle grounds. In 1984 the foundations of the round castle tower in the city park were restored.
Web links
- Entry by Frank Both, Stefan Eismann zu Cloppenburg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Cloppenburg Castle in the Lower Saxony Monument Atlas