Kleinenberg Castle

Kleinenberg Castle
Creation time :	middle Ages
Castle type :	City castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Amtshaus, Landesburg
Place:	Kleinenberg , City of Lichtenau
Geographical location	51 ° 35 '1 " N , 8 ° 58' 34" E Coordinates: 51 ° 35 '1 " N , 8 ° 58' 34" E
Height:	335 m above sea level NN

The castle Kleinenberg is an abandoned medieval town castle , which served as a lordly administrative house, in Kleinenberg , city of Lichtenau in the Paderborn district in North Rhine-Westphalia , Federal Republic of Germany .

location

The Burgstall is located in Kleinenberg, northwest of the church square.

history

Kleinenberg is mentioned for the first time in 1221 and designated as a town in 1249.

There was usually a castle in Paderborn towns. In Kleinenberg it is only indirectly attested in written sources . In 1658 the location of the castle stables was named Episcopal Burgplatz, a painting from 1665 shows a corresponding building and in 1780 the square is called 'Freiheit'.

Since the Lords of Osdagessen / Marschall were involved in the founding of Kleinenberg , it is assumed that they owned shares in the castle. With a Burglehen are lords of Calenberg testified on site.

Todays use

Today there are residential buildings on the castle grounds .

description

Before 1926, remains of masonry, stairs, stone flooring and a well were excavated at the site mentioned. On the painting of the city view of Kleinenberg from the vedute cycle of Carl Ferdinand Fabritius from 1665, a building similar to Lichtenau Castle can be seen.

literature

J. Körner: The architectural and art monuments of the province of Westphalia - Büren district. Munster 1926.

Web links

Entry for Castle Kleinenberg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute.

Individual evidence

↑ Unless otherwise stated, the representation follows the entry for Kleinenberg Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute.
↑ See Gerhard Henkel : History and geography of the Büren district. Paderborn 1974, map p. 185.
↑ Michael Lagers: The Paderborn pin needle to the middle of the 15th century - Investigations into the development and expansion of power structures of lower nobility. (= Friedrich Gerhard Hohmann (ed.): Studies and sources on Westphalian history. Vol. 74), Paderborn 2013, p. 403 f. Heinrich Schoppmeyer: The Bishop of Paderborn and his cities - At the same time a contribution to the problem of sovereign and city. (= Klemens Honselmann (ed.): Studies and sources on Westphalian history. Vol. 12), Paderborn 1968, p. 24, 169-183.
↑ J. Körner: The architectural and art monuments of the province of Westphalia - Büren district. , Münster 1926, pp. 152, 161 f.

[1] Unless otherwise stated, the representation follows the entry for Kleinenberg Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute.

[2] See Gerhard Henkel : History and geography of the Büren district. Paderborn 1974, map p. 185.

[3] Michael Lagers: The Paderborn pin needle to the middle of the 15th century - Investigations into the development and expansion of power structures of lower nobility. (= Friedrich Gerhard Hohmann (ed.): Studies and sources on Westphalian history. Vol. 74), Paderborn 2013, p. 403 f. Heinrich Schoppmeyer: The Bishop of Paderborn and his cities - At the same time a contribution to the problem of sovereign and city. (= Klemens Honselmann (ed.): Studies and sources on Westphalian history. Vol. 12), Paderborn 1968, p. 24, 169-183.

[4] J. Körner: The architectural and art monuments of the province of Westphalia - Büren district. , Münster 1926, pp. 152, 161 f.