Kriegshoven Castle

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Kriegshoven Castle
Kriegshoven Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Kriegshoven Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Creation time : before 1250
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Receive
Standing position : Nobles
Place: Heimerzheim
Geographical location 50 ° 43 '35.5 "  N , 6 ° 54' 24"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '35.5 "  N , 6 ° 54' 24"  E
Height: 130  m above sea level NHN
Kriegshoven Castle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Kriegshoven Castle

  • Courtyard entrance

  • Front view

  • Rear view

  • from the southwest

  • from the east

The Kriegshoven Castle is an old chestnut avenue to reach Wasserburg approximately one kilometer northwest of the village Heimerzheim in Rhein-Sieg-Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

The exact date of foundation is not known, but the Lords of Kriegshoven were first mentioned in writing as early as the middle of the 13th century. The collegiate sexton of St. Kunibert transferred a pond to the owner Heinrich von Creshovin in 1247. The preserved core of the castle, a two-story angular structure, dates back to the 16th century. The corresponding impression of a Renaissance castle is still effective today.

A portrait of the building complex from the middle of the 19th century shows neo-Gothic designs in the fashionable style of historicism.

Subsequently, the castle often changed hands. In 1868, the senior government councilor Emil Wülfing acquired the moated castle and expanded the mansion to a three-winged complex in baroque forms by 1869 . After his death, the castle passed into the possession of his son of the same name. The younger Emil von Wülfing's successor was his son-in-law Fritz Albert Eugen von Scherenberg , who was married to Maria von Wülfing. Kriegshoven Castle is still owned by the von Scherenberg family today.

Parts of the moat of the castle complex were filled in at the end of the 19th century.

literature

  • 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. 160 f .

Web links

Commons : Burg Kriegshoven  - Collection of images
  • Entry about Kriegshoven Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
  • Entry on Kriegshoven Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
  • Kriegshoven. (PDF; 1.22 MB) In: Duncker Collection. Central and State Library Berlin, accessed on February 6, 2014 (material on Kriegshoven Castle).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Landschaftsverband Rheinland , Udo Mainzer (ed.): Yearbook of the Rheinische Denkmalpflege 40/41 , Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2009, ISBN 978-3-88462-288-9 , p. 546.
  2. ↑ Wülfing was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on January 1, 1900