Freilingen Castle

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Freilingen Castle
Blankenheimer Str. 16, former castle location

Blankenheimer Str. 16, former castle location

Creation time : presumably 14th century
Castle type : Niederungsburg, location
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Barons
Construction: Quarry stone
Place: Freilingen
Geographical location 50 ° 24 '36.1 "  N , 6 ° 43' 55.3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 24 '36.1 "  N , 6 ° 43' 55.3"  E
Height: 423  m above sea level NHN
Freilingen Castle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Freilingen Castle

The castle Freilingen is an Outbound castle in the district Freilingen the municipality Blankenheim in the district of Euskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Blank Str. 16,.

history

A family of those von Freilingen is mentioned for the first time in 1351, when it was enfeoffed with the tithe of Freilingen by Mechthild von Arenberg . In the 16th century, the family in Mechthild von Freilingen seems to have their last name-bearer still living at the headquarters. She brought the goods to Emmerich von Liesur. However, the sources obtained from this period are very sketchy and not free from contradictions. The von Liesur family owned Freilingen for three generations, before Elisabeth von Liesur passed the estate on to Anton von Wolfskehl von der Kitzburg through marriage . Through her granddaughter, Anna Elisabeth von Wolfskehl (around 1689–1744), the property passed to Wilhelm Ferdinand von Dunckel. The family initially lived on the husband's estate in Lüxheim . Among their children are Wilhelm Adolph von Dunckel (1718–1800), who was the last dean of the Springiersbach monastery in 1791 before it was secularized , and his brother Max Philipp (1723–1796), who also lived as a canon in Springiersbach in 1785 the Archbishop of Trier was appointed administrator of the Stuben monastery women's monastery . There are also members of the Stuben, Springiersbach, Engelport and Füssenich monasteries in previous generations .

With the only granddaughter of Wilhelm Ferdinand von Dunckel, Caroline (1798–1868), this family also dies out. Caroline von Dunckel married the commoner Hermann Maria Hons (1802-1856), with whom she lived in Cologne and most recently in Dresden. After business failures, the family gradually loses the inheritance, which is also heavily burdened. Around 1825 this still consisted of goods in Effelsberg , Lüxheim, Kleingladbach near Erkelenz and Freilingen. Hons business attempts included the trade in wine in Cologne and Dresden or the establishment of a brewery in Hersel near Bonn. In connection with this commitment, he also had the Roisdorf train station built on the route from Cologne to Bonn in 1844/45 .

Caroline von Dunckel probably only lived a few years in Freilingen and probably grew up mainly with relatives in Uerdingen and Cologne. After the death of her father, she is only two years old, her mother, Clementine von Leerodt (1762-1820), who came from Schloss Leerodt , married the later mayor of Lommersdorf (1812-1835) and Blankenheim (1826-1826) in 1801. 1835), Anton von Manteuffel (1781–1870). From Manteuffel, however, only the manager of the properties from the estate of Dunckel remained. The country nobleman, who was born in Burg Ringsheim , owned shares in Burg Lindweiler , and most recently lived with his eldest son in Embken . In 1826 Caroline von Dunckel had the Freilingen estate auctioned. At that time it consisted of 14 acres of garden land, 50 acres of meadows, 244 acres of arable land, 62 acres of hedges and bushes, 5 acres of undergrowth and 421 acres of wilderness in addition to the castle itself. A consortium of local farmers and millers was awarded the contract for a total of 10,000 Berlin Taler, who divided up the land and ultimately sold the castle for demolition.

description

The complex represented a typical residential castle, which differed from comparable manors or fiefs in the region only in terms of their property. The entire complex was a two-storey castle house with an attached stair tower and semicircular farm buildings to the south. In terms of its appearance, the castle was comparable to the nearby facilities in Marmagen and Urft ( Dalbenden Castle ).

The north-west side of the main building was located on today's Marienplatz in what was then Niederfreilingen, on the east side of which the Freilinger Chapel is located. The immediate neighbor was the Duke von Arenberg, who owned the fiefdom known as Gilles . Proof of the former existence of a moated castle surrounded by moats , as can be read in the literature occasionally, has not yet been provided.

Current condition

Since the acquirers of the facility in 1826 had no use for the outdated building, they had it demolished in order to obtain some proceeds from the materials. Especially since the auctioned land was more important to them. Parts of the building stock still existing at the time of demolition (masonry, window stones, doors, internal stairs) can be found in particular in the residential buildings Blankenheimer Str. 9 and 11 built in 1830/31, which were originally part of an estate.

Web links

  • Entry on Freilingen in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
  • Entry on Freilingen in the private database "Alle Burgen".

literature

  • Ralf Gier: Freilingen Castle. In: About castle and source. No. 97 (December 2002) Ed. Heimatverein Blankenheim, Blankenheim 2002, pp. 35–50.
  • 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 , p. 263.