Enzen Castle

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Enzen Castle
Creation time : 12th century
Castle type : Moated castle
Conservation status: only to see trenches
Place: Enzen
Geographical location 50 ° 39 '18 "  N , 6 ° 41' 51.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '18 "  N , 6 ° 41' 51.6"  E
Enzen Castle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Enzen Castle

The castle Enzen stood at the eastern edge of Enzen , a district of Zülpich in Euskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia in today's national road 178, which is in this area Castle Road.

A moated castle was built in Enzen in the 12th century . It was the ancestral seat of the von Enzen family and a noble knight's seat . In 1470 the castle was destroyed during the conflict with the Manderscheid dynasty and then rebuilt. A Johann von Enzen is mentioned as a mercenary in the files of the city of Pisa in 1343/44 . Edmund von Enzen bequeathed the castle to Lepart von Heimbach . His granddaughter received the castle in 1511. The last of the von Enzen family was Blankart von Enzen, who died in 1638 in the battle near Arras . Elisabeth von Blankart became the new owner, then Anna von Goltstein . She was the last aristocratic Aufsitzerin , so actual resident. In 1702 Enzen inherited the distant relative Baron Gotthard Adolf Werner von Mirbach zu Harff. In 1723 Enzen Castle is no longer listed in the Welser Codex . At that time the mansion was probably already in ruins . The bailey was built towards new after a fire in 1647 as a four-winged courtyard with a tenant house on the street side. In 1963 the dilapidated house and later the archway from 1765 were demolished. The farm buildings were already renewed.

From the main castle only the traces of the moat square and of an older castle a moth hill can be seen.

Today the farm is used as an adventure farm.

The castle was entered on April 18, 1995 under number 195 in the monument list of the city of Zülpich .

literature

  • Harald Herzog: Castles and palaces, history and typology of the aristocratic seats in the Euskirchen district . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7927-1226-1

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