Gevern Castle

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The castle Gevern in the district Küntrop the city Neuenrade was a medieval fortification in the form of a moth . A replica of a moth ( Motte Küntrop ) was built in the immediate vicinity in 2013 .

The castle grounds are overgrown by a dense population of trees
The motte for the AufRuhr exhibition of the LWL Museum for Archeology , since 2013 near the former Gevern Castle. It is an ideal type of building and not a reconstruction of Gevern Castle itself

history

Gevern was first mentioned in a document in 1074. A castle was later built there by the Counts of Arnsberg . It protected the border against the county of Mark . The time of origin was probably not before 1200. According to other information, it was only built around 1353 during the dispute over the Neuenrade plateau between the Grafschaft Mark and the Grafschaft Arnsberg. It is possible that an existing system was only fortified at that time. This was directed against the founding city of Neuenrade. Count Gottfried IV von Arnsberg gave the castle to aristocrats, members of the von Binolen family, as a fief . In 1354 he assigned his house Gevern to the archbishops of Cologne as a fief. In the military conflicts between Count Gottfried IV. Von Arnsberg and Engelbert III. Von der Mark destroyed the castle and village in 1355 and never rebuilt it. The Brandenburg chronicler Levold von Northof wrote: “ In 1355, after the end of the Geldrian War, Geueren Castle, which the Count of Arnsberg had fortified, was destroyed. “Stones and other remains were partially recycled for other buildings, especially in the city of Neuenrade. The residents were from Count Engelbert III. caused to move to Neuenrade.

investment

The castle lay in a swampy valley. It was most likely a plant in the shape of a moth . The main castle with a tower was on an artificial hill surrounded by a moat. The location of the castle can still be seen in the area today. The area of ​​the main castle was then rounded-oval with dimensions of 34 × 30 m. Today the area is occupied by a dense population of trees. The up to 12 m wide moat is only faintly visible. The castle is now a ground monument .

Motte Küntrop

An attraction of the medieval exhibition Aufruhr 1225 was the reconstruction of a wooden, altogether 25 m high hilltop castle at the LWL Museum for Archeology in Herne . The moth, which was dismantled after the exhibition was over, was rebuilt about 250 m away from the historical location of Gevern Castle and opened in 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Gosmann: The Counts of Arnsberg and their county. In: Harm Klueting (Ed.): The Duchy of Westphalia. Volume 1: The Electorate of Cologne Duchy of Westphalia from the beginnings of Cologne rule in southern Westphalia to secularization in 1803. Aschendorff, Münster 2009, p. 190
  2. ^ Chronicle of the Counts of the Mark and the Archbishops of Cöln, translated by Carl Ludwig Philipp Tross, 1859, p. 209 digitized
  3. ↑ cf. Michael Scheffold: The reconstruction of an ideal typical moth of the time around 1225. In. Revolt 1225! The Middle Ages on the Rhine and Ruhr. Darmstadt, 2010 pp. 263–270

Web links

Commons : Wasserburg Gevern  - Collection of images

Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 27.5 ″  N , 7 ° 48 ′ 55.9 ″  E