Kakesbeck Castle
| Kakesbeck Castle | ||
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.jpg) The Kakesbeck moated castle |
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| Creation time : | Early 14th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Receive | |
| Construction: | including brick | |
| Place: | Lüdinghausen -Elvert | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 48 '43 " N , 7 ° 27' 6" E | |
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The castle Kakesbeck is the oldest of three preserved water castles in Lüdinghausen in Coesfeld . It is located five kilometers north of the city center in the Bechtrup farming community, east of the L 835 on the Stever . The address is Bechtrup 63. An outside inspection is possible at any time, an inspection of the castle complex from the inside must be announced in advance.
history
The original owners called themselves "von Kakaresbeki" and were ministerials of the Werden an der Ruhr monastery . Kakesbeck is mentioned for the first time in the 9th century in the so-called arable land of the Werden monastery. Around 1100 the farm came into the possession of the Counts of Dale through an exchange , whose extensive possessions extended to what is now the Netherlands . A moth was erected around 1120 , the hill and wall of which can still be seen today. With the death of Wilhelm Graf von Dale, the male line died out. Count Otto von Tecklenburg married Kunigunde von Dale in 1316 and became the new owner of the castle. He sold these to Bernhard de Droste from Vischering Castle in 1322 . The fortified courtyard was expanded into a "two-island castle" by the new owner. After the Droste zu Kakesbeck family had died out in the male line in 1384, the castle came into the possession of his family through the marriage of Gödeke de Droste to Heidenreich von Oer.
The foundation stone of today's facility was probably laid at the beginning of the 14th century. Subsequently, their owners let the property gradually expand. A second and third outer bailey was built with the Hildegardisturm, an oil mill , a 30 meter high keep , economic building, stables , two further towers and a drawbridge . In its heyday, the complex covered almost one square kilometer and, in addition to the core castle, consisted of five outer castles, which were secured by ramparts and moats .
Knight Lambert is particularly well known from the von Oer family . When he was lord of the castle on Kakesbeck, he was involved in a dispute with Gottfried von Harmen zu Horne, called Goddert, over the ownership rights to the Mechelnschen estates, a free float around Ahlen. Goddart had Lambert captured in 1520 and put on him an iron collar with thorns on the inside to force him to give in. The then 80-year-old Lambert rode to Münster to see the armourer Thiele Schwoll at Hörstertor. This freed him from the collar by chiseling it open. The original collar is exhibited today in the Münsterland Museum in Vischering Castle, a replica that is true to the original is at Kakesbeck Castle.
Under the von Oer family , the manor house was fundamentally redesigned from 1601 for Bernhard von Oer and his wife Margaretha Quadt von Wickrath using old foundations and expanded to the east. A chiseled year still bears witness to this today. 1684 Wasserburg went through marriage into the possession of the Mark Uradelsfamilie von der Recke to stretch over before the Drosten Vischering the castle in 1738 along with 80 -impaired purchased farms.
At the beginning of the 19th century, a fire destroyed most of the upper floor of the manor house. The damage was subsequently repaired and the upper floor was partly rebuilt. The former castle chapel was demolished in 1868.
After the plant came into the ownership of the Bolte family in the middle of the 20th century, it is now owned by Wilfried Grewings. He initiated excavations under the direction of Alfred Zeischka in collaboration with the state curator , during which, among other things, parts of the former curtain wall and the foundations of an old defensive wall from around the 13th century were found. The current owner of the castle had the castle renovated and the history of the castle depicted by portraits on the shield wall. In the 1980s, the owner had the castle expanded to include a four-column half-timbered house from the 15th century and a riding hall. The half-timbered house was moved from Lippstadt. The internationally known Moorhof stud farm is located in these buildings today.
The reconstruction of the castle chapel began in 1988. The floor plan of the old chapel was known from the foundations that were still there and was retained. The new building was inaugurated as an ecumenical chapel in 2014 . The painters Mathes Schweinberger and Andreas Raub decorated the interior with 40 portraits of extraordinary personalities: The Saint von Kakesbeck . The portrayed are of different denominations, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish. The ecumenical castle chapel is open for tours and weddings.
On January 1, 2016, the owners contributed the castle to a foundation . The foundation bears the name Dr. Wilfried and Hildegard Grewing Foundation . The restoration of the castle is proceeding unhindered. The knight's hall was completed and contains a unique collection of paintings by the Prussian electors from the house of Hohenzollern and the von Oer family. Another exhibition on the history of Lüdinghausen is in preparation. A ceramic exhibition with 6000 exhibits is also planned.
description
Kakesbeck Castle is now a two-part complex, which consists of a core and an outer bailey area and is surrounded by an extensive system of moats, which is fed by the Stever. Baumberger sandstone and bricks were mainly used as building materials .
The majority of today's buildings date from the 14th to 16th centuries, for example the brewery from 1542 and a late Gothic warehouse from the same year in the northern part of the outer bailey, which was used at times as a guard house. A gatehouse was built in the 17th century, as was the manor house, the cellar of which is from earlier times. It has a vaulted ceiling supported by short columns with bases and capitals in the Romanesque style .
Legend
According to legend, three headless calves are said to haunt the castle's vaulted cellars at night. They are the three enchanted sons of Lambert von Oer, who never succeeded in luring three virgins into the cellar to redeem them.
literature
- Günter Kalesky: From moated castle to moated castle. Building and art history study trip to Westphalia . 8th edition. H. Rademann, Lüdinghausen 1981, ISBN 3-9800113-0-5 , pp. 128-133.
- Bernhard Lüke, Wilfried Grewing: The saints of Kakesbeck. The story of a castle chapel . Dortmund book, Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-945238-11-0 .
- Peter Gallus: The iron collar of Lambert von Oer zu Kakesbeck . Dortmund book, Dortmund 2018, ISBN 978-3-9812130-2-7 .
- Wilhelm Kohl : To the older history of Kakesbeck . In: Archivpflege in Westfalen und Lippe , Heft 43 (1996), pp. 7-12.
- Wilhelm Kohl: Kakesbeck, the castle . Unpublished manuscript, Kakesbeck Library.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ G. Kalesky: From Wasserburg Wasserburg , page 128th
- ↑ Burg Kakesbeck on westfalen-adelssitze.de ( Memento from January 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ G. Kalesky: From Wasserburg Wasserburg , page 130th
- ↑ Münsterland.de: The headless calves from Kakesbeck