Dattenberg Castle

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Dattenberg Castle
Tower of Dattenberg Castle

Tower of Dattenberg Castle

Creation time : around 1220, first mentioned in 1242
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: partially preserved
Standing position : Lower nobility
Place: Dattenberg
Geographical location 50 ° 33 ′ 19 ″  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 24 ″  E Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 19 ″  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 24 ″  E
Dattenberg Castle (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Dattenberg Castle

The Burg Dattenberg is a partially obtained Höhenburg on the outskirts of the local community Dattenberg (Castle Road) in the district of Neuwied in Rheinland-Pfalz .

history

The castle was built around 1220 by the noble lords of Dattenberg as their ancestral seat and was mentioned in 1242 with the lords of Dadenberg (Werner de Dadenberg). In 1260 a Gumbertus de Dadenberg appears, around 1269 Hermannus de Dadenberg, knight, brother-in-law of Henrich Lehnrich von Ludensdorp. Around 1320 Wilhelm de Dadenberg sold the castle to the Archbishopric of Cologne ( Archbishop Heinrich II. Von Virneburg ), who gave it to the Knight Rollmann von Sinzig as a castle loan from Altenahr in 1331. The grandson of Rollmann and his descendants bore the name of Dattenberg. Elisabeth von Dattenberg, wife of Goddart von Lülsdorf, passed the castle to her son Albrecht von Lülsdorf, who was enfeoffed in 1572. When his successor, Ludwig von Lülsdorf, died in 1664 without male descendants, his son-in-law, Johann Friedrich Raitz von Frentz zu Gustorf, received the fiefdom in 1667, which was withdrawn as settled after his death in 1675. In 1624 the castle was already described as derelict.

Owned by the Prussian state, the castle was sold to the Cologne appellate judge Dahmen in 1822, after which the castle came into the possession of Josef Stoppenbach, notary in Cologne, in 1837. Stoppenbach built a two-storey country house made of quarry stone with a tower-like staircase and utility buildings. The most important construction work was carried out in 1840, but the notary Stoppenbach went bankrupt in 1848 and his property was auctioned in 1850. Otto von Mengershausen took over Dattenberg Castle until he left the property to the Berlin builder Adolf Fuchs in 1887, who then expanded it into a castle-like villa in 1890 . Adolf Fuchs ran wine and fruit growing in Dattenberg. In the years 1929–1938 his descendants had to rent the property to Father Rudolf Schütz, who wanted to train young girls of all classes in the spirit of the Catholic lay apostolate with his institution “Heim in der Sonne”. In 1939 the Nazi state set up a country year camp, sometimes for boys and sometimes for girls. At the end of the Second World War, German soldiers holed up on the castle grounds until the Americans occupied them. After the property came to the district of Cologne in 1949 , it was used by the Erftkreis as a rural school home until 1996 , and in 2003 it was privately owned by Karin and Karl Schultz.

Dattenberg, country house of the Dattenberg Castle
Country house of the Dattenberg Castle

description

The former hilltop castle of the castle-like villa consisted of a circular main castle , a rectangular surrounding wall and a flanking tower on the north corner and still shows the approximately 11 meter high stump of the centrally located keep ( residential tower ) with a diameter of 8.5 meters and one in the Shale rock broken neck ditch . The outer bailey was recently built over. The most imposing part of the partially restored fortification is the ruin of the residential tower, which can only be viewed from the outside.

literature

  • Kurt Frein: Burgen am Rhein , HB Verlagsgesellschaft, 1983
  • Hermann-Joseph Löhr: Mysterious world of castles and palaces from Drachenfels to Engers , Verlag Media-World GmbH Asbach, 2008
  • Alexander Thon, Stefan Ulrich: "... like a monarch enthroned in the middle of his court" - castles on the lower Middle Rhine . Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-7954-2210-3 , pp. 42-45.
  • Udo Liessem: Building history observations on some Hohenstaufen castles in the Koblenz region , Deutsche Burgenvereinigung (Hrsg.), 1977, in: magazine "Burgen und Schlösser" 77/1 p.29ff
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Krahe: Castles of the German Middle Ages . Weltbild Verlag GmbH. Würzburg 1998. ISBN 3-86047-219-4
  • Heinrich Neu and Hans Weigert: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Neuwied , L. Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1940, pp. 80–82.
  • Albert N. Schmitz: Dattenberg history of a village , home calendar 1965, Des Landkreis Neuwied, pp. 72–75.
  • Bernd Willscheid: Burg Dattenberg , Heimat – Jahrbuch 1993, Des Landkreis Neuwied, pp. 47–49.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert N. Schmitz: Dattenberg history of a village, home calendar 1965, Des Landkreis Neuwied, p. 74.
  2. ^ Heinrich Neu and Hans Weigert: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Landkreis Neuwied, L. Schwann, Düsseldorf, 1940, p. 82.
  3. ↑ Bernd Willscheid: Burg Dattenberg , Heimat-Jahrbuch, Des Landkreis Neuwied, 1993, pp. 47–49.