Holtey Castle

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Holtey Castle
Alternative name (s): Schulte-Holtey, Unterholtey
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Place: Essen - Burgaltendorf
Geographical location 51 ° 25 '25.2 "  N , 7 ° 6' 12.1"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '25.2 "  N , 7 ° 6' 12.1"  E
Holtey Castle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Holtey Castle

Burg Holtey (also Schulte-Holtey and Unterholtey ) is an abandoned , medieval castle on today's Holteyer Straße in the Essen district of Burgaltendorf .

history

The castle was built at the bottom of the Ruhr valley directly at a ford of a later silted arm of the Ruhr. The noble lords of Holtey are mentioned as early as 1221; the courtyard that emerged from the ancestral seat of Burg Holtey for the first time in 1486.

Due to the constant flooding of the Ruhr, the courtyard buildings were moved one hundred meters to the north in 1857. During railway construction work on the Middle Ruhr Valley Railway between Überruhr and Altendorf (Ruhr) station in the 1870s, parts of a rampart were cut. Allegedly was discovered while remains of the keep and a Romanesque capital.

In 1903 the site was sold to the Gelsenkirchen waterworks. They built a water extraction system there. The unclaimed areas were managed until 1956. Nothing remains of the castle above ground. The area overgrown with forest is still owned by the Gelsenkirchen waterworks and is not open to the public.

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