Hemmerich Castle (Bornheim)

Hemmerich Castle
19th century lithograph by Alexander Duncker
Creation time :	before 1210
Castle type :	Location
Conservation status:	ruin
Standing position :	Nobles
Place:	Bornheim - Hemmerich
Geographical location	50 ° 45 '43.3 "  N , 6 ° 55' 47.9"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 45 '43.3 "  N , 6 ° 55' 47.9"  E
Height:	152  m above sea level NHN

The Castle Hemmerich is the ruin of a castle in Bornheimer district Hemmerich (Jenner Road) in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

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  Aerial view

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  Hemmerich

The castle was built on a Roman settlement and in 1210 was owned by the knight Albero von Hemberg, a member of an influential noble family.

The castle was given the Rhenish Rococo style after it was redesigned between 1729 and 1733 by Maria Elisabeth zum Pütz from a family of mayors from Cologne and Düsseldorf. It was acquired by Karl Freiherr von Nordeck (1793–1853) in 1825, and his family owned it until 2008.

After the castle was destroyed due to fires in 1869 and 1906, the mansion was designed by architect William count Mörner as Villa in the style of Neo-Renaissance built again. After a third fire in 1945, triggered by forced laborers released during the Second World War , the castle was only a ruin. The current owners are the Stollenwerk family, owners of the canning factory of the same name .

literature

• Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the city and the district of Bonn . L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1905, pp. 305–307 (= Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 5, Section 3, pp. 601–603). (Unchanged reprint Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-590-32113-X ) ( Internet Archive ).
• Bernhard Gondorf: The castles of the Eifel and their peripheral areas. A lexicon of the "permanent houses" . J. P. Bachem, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7616-0723-7 , p. 48 .

Web links

Commons : Burg Hemmerich  - Collection of images

• Entry on Hemmerich Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
• Entry on Hemmerich (ruin) in the private database "Alle Burgen".
• Hemmerich Castle , bornheim.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bettina Thränhardt: Hemmerich Castle. The farm building and the gate pavilion have been renovated. In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn). February 26, 2014, accessed March 6, 2014 .