Limberg Castle
| Limberg Castle | ||
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 The ruin on the Limberg |
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| Creation time : | 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | Keep | |
| Place: | Prussian Oldendorf - Börninghausen | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 16 '49 " N , 8 ° 30' 30" E | |
| Height: | 190 m above sea level NN | |
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The Burg Limberg is the ruins of a hilltop castle on the 190 meter high Limberg ( Wiehengebirge ) in the district Börninghausen the city Preußisch Oldendorf in East Westphalia Minden-Lübbecke in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
The castle was built in the 13th century on the border between the dioceses of Minden and Osnabrück, probably by the Bishop of Minden at a strategically favorable location. But before that, a castle or fortification is said to have stood on the spot where Duke Widukind also stayed. Around 1300 the castle became the property of the Counts of Ravensberg as a fief and was expanded by them. The castle was first mentioned in documents in 1319. With the death of the last Count of Ravensberg Bernhard in 1346, the Limberg with the County of Ravensberg fell to the later Duke of Jülich and Berg . In 1554 Limberg Castle was damaged by fire, but it was restored. As a result of the Jülich-Klevian succession dispute , the castle was assigned to the Elector of Brandenburg in the Treaty of Xanten of 1614 , who - after it was conquered by the Count Palatine of Neuburg for a few years in the Thirty Years War - had it occupied by a small team in 1647. In the Thirty Years' War, from 1623 onwards, a force of thirty men was supposed to guarantee the integrity of the castle, but they were dispatched to Lippstadt for the siege so that the capture was not difficult for the Count Palatine of Neuburg. In 1662 the twenty-strong crew of the castle was transferred to the Sparrenburg , thus ending the history of the castle as a military station. Regardless of the respective suzerainty, different pawns, bailiffs or droste were always employed at the castle . At the end of the 17th century the castle deteriorated and was hardly usable for military purposes. In 1695 was in a rescript of the Elector Friedrich III. to the Ravensberg Chamber of Commerce advocates demolishing the Limberg house, which no one can live in because of its disrepair. In the wording it said that the Limberg house, which could no longer be inhabited because of its dilapidation, was to be demolished, that it would not be of the slightest use to the public and the country because it was not located on any pass, but could only serve the enemy as a robbery nest during times of war . The tower served as a prison until 1805, and in 1832 the complex was finally sold. In the 1980s, an association for the preservation of the castle ruins was founded.
description
The square twelve-meter high castle keep ( residential tower ) with twelve-meter side length was restored around 1989 and can be visited. Otherwise, some ramparts, remains of the walls of the palace and parts of the curtain wall and the moat have been preserved. Also worth seeing is the 600-year-old " Gogerichtslinde " standing by the castle , which was previously used as a court.
Hand sketch of the ruin from 1850
The ruin in 1905
Floor plan of Limburg 1907
Hiking trails
The Sachsenweg , a 41-kilometer long- distance hiking trail , ends at Limberg Castle , which leads from Ravensberg Castle near Borgholzhausen in the Gütersloh district and is looked after by the members of the Teutoburg Forest Association . - The Sachsenweg with the signpost -Markierung S labeled.
literature
- Bernhard Brönner: Limberg Castle and its history in brief . Prussian Oldendorf 1950.
- Gustav Engel: The Ravensbergische Landesburgen . U. Helmichs Buchhandlung, Bielefeld 1934, ISBN 3-89534-093-6 .
- Gustav Engel: Landesburg and sovereignty on Osning, Wiehen and Weser . Pfeffersche Buchhandlung, Bielefeld 1979, ISBN 3-88024-028-0 .
- Association for the Preservation of Limberg Castle Ruins V. (Ed.): Limberg Castle - the center of a region. Contributions to the past and present . Self-published, Preußisch Oldendorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022386-0 .
- Edgar F. Warnecke: The big book of castles and palaces in the land of Hase and Ems . 2nd Edition. H. Th. Wenner, Osnabrück 1985, ISBN 3-87898-297-6 .
Web links
- Entry on Limberg Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Limberg Castle at Burgenwelt.de
- On the history of the castle
- timeline
- To the Limberg office
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
