Kerpen Castle (Rhein-Erft)
| Kerpen Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | before 1114 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Dukes | |
| Place: | Kerpen | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 52 '15.9 " N , 6 ° 42' 18.4" E | |
| Height: | 80 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Burg Kerpen was a moated castle , imperial fortress and a Franconian royal court in Kerpen in North Rhine-Westphalia Rhein-Erft . It should secure and control the important Erftübergang the Reichsstraße between Cologne and Aachen. Today's Burgstall is located in a new housing estate in the east of Kerpen.
history
The exact time when the castle was built is unknown. The imperial fortress whose Burggrafenamt the aforementioned 1065-1071 for the first time Reichsministerialen of Kerpen to feud have been, has thus already built was given at that time, or which were under construction. Archbishop Friedrich I of Cologne had it destroyed in 1114. Castle and lordship finally passed from Königsgut into the possession of the Kerpen family and were sold by Beatrix, widow of Johann von Kerpen, to her brother Winemar von Gymnich and his wife Johanna on August 2, 1276 . These pledged the castle and the manor to Archbishop Siegfried of Cologne before they were both sold to Duke Johann I of Brabant in 1282 . Archbishop Siegfried von Westerburg destroyed the castle again in the same year . The dukes of Brabant had the complex rebuilt within two years. After Kerpen was owned by Spain from 1506, the town and castle were besieged several times from 1578 and in 1689 the fortifications of Kerpen Castle were blown up by French troops and the living areas burned down.
August Graf von Schaesberg had the moats filled and the ruins leveled in 1793 in order to rebuild the complex as a castle. However , when French revolutionary troops marched in , it could not be rebuilt.
investment
The castle complex was built on a moth with a moat and had a late medieval influence. It had a residential tower with a rectangular floor plan , with loopholes and a device for a wooden battlement . With several defense towers , which stood at regular intervals on the castle island and were equipped with loopholes, as well as other residential buildings, it formed a semicircular island. The buildings were surrounded by a wall ring , some of which belonged to the residential buildings. The gate tower had a brickwork panel with a drawbridge , in front of which there was a second drawbridge to the access ramp.
literature
- Frank Kretzschmar: Kerpen, Kerpen Castle . In: Oberkreisdirektor des Erftkreises (Hrsg.): Kulturregion Erftkreis - Loss of a monument landscape . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7927-1228-8 , p. 64 .
Web links
- Entry on Kerpen Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Entry on Kerpen Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Frank Kretzschmar: Kerpen, Kerpen Castle . In: Oberkreisdirektor des Erftkreises (Hrsg.): Kulturregion Erftkreis - Loss of a monument landscape . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7927-1228-8 , p. 64 .
- ↑ Hans J. Domsta: History of the princes of Merode in the Middle Ages, Vol. 1, pp. 25-28
- ^ Frank Kretzschmar: Kerpen, Kerpen Castle . In: Oberkreisdirektor des Erftkreises (Hrsg.): Kulturregion Erftkreis - Loss of a monument landscape . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7927-1228-8 , p. 66 .