Denklingen Castle

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Denklingen Castle
Creation time : 14th Century
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Renovated in 1987
Place: Thinkers
Geographical location 50 ° 54 '55 "  N , 7 ° 39' 18.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '55 "  N , 7 ° 39' 18.6"  E
Height: 270  m above sea level NN
Denklingen Castle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Denklingen Castle

The Denklingen Castle is a castle in the town district Reichshof , Oberbergisches Land , North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

Originally, Denklingen seems to have been an old Sayn court seat. Already in the 14th century there was a castle in Denklingen that the Counts of Berg owned. In the atonement of July 9, 1404 between Young Duke Adolf von Berg and Johann von Loon, Lord von Heinsberg and Löwenburg and Young Count Gerhard von Sayn , Lord zu Freusburg and Homburg (in which Duke Wilhelm von Berg , Count Johann von Sayn and the Duke of Burgundy should be included) a comparison takes place because of the building they jointly built in Denklingen: “Vortine alsulge buwe, as zu Dencklyngen is buwe, davan is oeverkomen, dat one dairby the customer brengen sall, ind vunde one in the customer, dat des yet up deill us Gerhart joncgreven van Seyne were gebuwet, dat sall man affbruch of man sall us joncgreven dat myt vruntschaffen vurunthalden ”.

On February 23, 1413, Johann von Gimborn issued a lapel stating that he had made the Denklingen house, which Duke Adolf von Berg and the people in the parish of Drolshagen owned for life, into an open house . This institution of the time owes its creation to the feudal system . In the 14th century, old-free owners of fortified castles mostly felt compelled to declare them to the neighboring counts and dukes as an open house ( Castrum ligium ) with the “associated back seat ” (residents) . So they could use the castles at any time to defend themselves against enemies, whereas the owners were taken under protection and protection.

On August 24, 1423 Engelbert von Scheidt , known as Weschpfenning, was enfeoffed with the Denklingen Castle.

In a document dated September 1, 1433, according to which Duke Adolf concludes an alliance with Landgrave Ludwig I of Hesse that u. a. Denklingen should be this open house, Adolf speaks of “our lock”. On November 29, 1435, Duke Adolf pledged the castle and office of Windeck and Denklingen to the official Wilhelm von Nesselrode.

A document dated December 6, 1473 says that Windeck and Denklingen came into the possession of Bertram zu Ehrenstein .

Nothing is known about the history of the castle under Bergisch administration. That changes with the Siegburg Treaty in 1604. On December 2nd, the mutual handover of the changed areas and people, as well as the homage to the new subjects, takes place in the open field near Heisterstock near Winterborn (Nümbrecht community). The nobility of the now Bergisch parishes of Morsbach and Waldbröl were ordered to pay homage to the castle in Denklingen on March 11, 1605, in order to obey the duke as rulers.

The current castle building was originally a moated castle and was built between the 16th and 18th centuries. In 1672 the administration of the Windeck office was transferred to the castle. It was also called Rentei because the responsible rentmaster was based there.

In 1698 the two-storey gatehouse was opened during renovation work. On the sides there was a stone vault that once served as a prison.

In 1987 the restoration work on the castle was completed.

Special features today

  • Pottery market in the castle courtyard annually at Whitsun
  • Wedding room on the first floor

source

  • Oswald Gerhard: Eckenhagen and Denklingen through the ages. A home history of the former imperial court area Eckenhagen . Published by Heimatverein Eckenhagen eV, Eckenhagen 1953.

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