Dreiborn Castle
| Dreiborn Castle | ||
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 Dreiborn Castle |
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| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | partially preserved | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Schleiden - Dreiborn | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 32 '49.2 " N , 6 ° 25' 4.8" E | |
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The castle Dreiborn is a Grade II listed secular building in Dreiborn , a district of Schleiden in Euskirchen ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ).
History and architecture
The facility is the highest moated castle in the Rhineland . The originally two-part rectangular complex surrounded by a wide moat was accessible from the south. It was built from quarry stone and is partially plastered. The main castle was formerly four-winged. From the late medieval complex only the now free-standing round south-west tower of the former main castle and the surrounding walls of the three-winged outer bailey with two round corner towers are preserved. The two-storey residential building of the main castle with a lantern-crowned corner tower and the core of the southern wing of the bailey were built between 1680 and 1695. The core of the former officials' house and the north wing of the bailey date from the second half of the 18th century. There is a baroque path chapel on the country road and a small pavilion stands on the old garden wall.
After initially changing owners, Dreiborn was owned by the von Harff family for almost 400 years (between 1584 and 1982) and then passed by inheritance to the Raitz von Frentz family . The coat of arms of the Lords of Drimborn has consisted of three diagonally running roses in the coat of arms and above a helmet with a cap, at the top of which is another rose. The village of Dreiborn still bears this coat of arms today.
Personalities
- Clemens Freiherr von Harff (1821–1895), District Administrator of Schleiden from 1863 to 1895
literature
- Claudia Euskirchen, Olaf Gisbertz, Ulrich Schäfer (edit.): Handbook of German art monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia, Volume I: Rhineland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03093-X , p. 248 f.
- Harald Herzog: Castles and palaces, history and typology of the aristocratic seats in the Euskirchen district. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7927-1067-6 , here pp. 215-231.
- Ruth Schmitz-Ehmke , Barbara Fischer: The architectural and art monuments of the Euskirchen district. City of Schleiden (= The architectural and art monuments of North Rhine-Westphalia I. Rhineland 9.9) Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7861-1873-6 , pp. 157–165 and Fig. 410–433.
