Lindweiler Castle

Lindweiler Castle
Creation time :	presumably 13th century
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	laid down
Standing position :	Noblemen
Construction:	Quarry stone
Place:	Lindweiler
Geographical location	50 ° 27 '30.4 " N , 6 ° 45' 1.3" E Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '30.4 " N , 6 ° 45' 1.3" E
Height:	445 m above sea level NHN

The castle Lindweiler is an Outbound Wasserburg in the same district of the municipality Blankenheim in the district of Euskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Hümmeler Str. 7th

history

While the settlement of Lintwilere was first documented in 1114, an estate located there was mentioned in a document from 1212. Apparently it belonged to the Arenberg family until then , whose members are giving it to Steinfeld Monastery as a gift. Count Lothar von Hochstaden subsequently exempted it from tax, a basic requirement for recognition as a noble residence. In 1328 Arnold von Rohr then acquired a permanent house and outer bailey from the neighboring castle of the same name in Lindweiler, which he entrusted to Count von Jülich as the legal successor of the Hochstaden in 1344 . With the marriage of Bela von Rohr, Arnold's daughter and widow of Johan von Ulpenich, Lindweiler passed before 1376 to her husband Tilman von Densborn . The great-granddaughter Elsa von Densborn then brought Lindweiler through her marriage (23 January 1479) to Wilhelm von Mirbach zu Arloff, who was enfeoffed with the estate by the Count of Jülich in the same year. Later Gotthard von Densborn, son of Elsa von Mirbach's brother Bernhard, is owned by Lindweiler. From him it first passed to the son Johann von Densborn zu Lindweiler and subsequently, via his sister Catharina von Densborn, into the property of the von Metternich family. Catharina von Dendborn had married Hans von Metternich zu Vettelhofen (* 1500), bailiff of Saffenburg in 1541. Her grandson, Edmund von Metternich zu Vettelhofen and Kaldenborn († April 11, 1617) married again in their second marriage (May 9, 1609) in the "Maria Elise Print von Horchheim called von der Broel", a member of the family who were once again wealthy at Burg Rohr . Their daughter Maria Catharina von Metternich zu Vettelhoven († June 20, 1648), who married Johann Freiherr von Harff zu Dreiborn († December 15, 1672), Jülich hereditary marshal, bailiff of Monschau, electoral treasurer and councilor, became universal heiress was.

The von Harff remained in the possession of Lindweiler for five generations, up to Maria Anna Adolfine von Harff († May 18, 1783), who was the only child of the Electoral Palatinate Really Secret Councilor Alfons Damian Hyacinth Freiherr von Harff (* October 7, 1713; † 1757 at the citadel Irlich), in which she married the electoral Cologne constable and chamberlain Clemens Johann Nepomuk Joseph Freiherrn von Manteuffel (* 25 February 1740; †) in 1771 . After the possession of Burg Ringsheim, which came from Harff's estate , had to be sold due to high debts in 1791 , Lindweiler remained in the possession of the von Manteuffel family. In 1810 Anton von Manteuffel (1781–1870) paid off his brothers Max and Carl at Freilingen Castle and thus became the sole owner of Lindweiler, but this too was over-indebted. On January 15, 1846 he sold it for 6,000 Berlin thalers to the pharmacist Wilhelm Arnold Kemmerich, who lived in Erkrath. At that time, the estate still comprised 416 acres of forest, meadows and arable land. The sale Anton stated von Manteuffel that it is in Lindweiler a former manor is, the moment but not in the parish registers had been registered. Should Kemmerich (be able to) register it again, the purchase price would increase by 700 thalers. Kemmerich, who later resided in Bonn, had the buildings that had been neglected for lack of funds laid down and a new manor was built .

During the second half of the 19th century the owners of Gut Lindweiler changed five times to Wackenroder. According to this, the merchant and innkeeper Nicolaus Vosen (1812–1898), who lives in Lommersdorf, would have to end this chain of bourgeois owners through his acquisition in 1891. Vosen also moved into the estate himself and had it run by his numerous children. After his early death, they sell the property together with their mother or stepmother, Anna Vosen nee. Herschbach, in 1902 for 47,500 marks, with mortgages of over 34,000 marks on the property. The new owner was the unmarried pensioner and winery owner Josef von Jordans (born July 9, 1866 in Lüftelberg ; † June 8, 1904 in Bonn) , who lived at Morenhoven Castle . After his death, his nephew, Carl von Jordans (born March 28, 1881 in Bonn) inherited. As in previous centuries, when tenants predominantly lived in Gut Lindweiler, Jordans also leased the complex.

description

According to Wackenroder, the farm buildings enclosed a large courtyard, with their outer walls forming the curtain wall . According to this, the manor house was similar to the comparable facilities in Freilingen , Marmagen or Urft ( Dalbenden Castle ), a two-storey building with an attached stair tower . The water inflow, from which the originally existing water ditches were probably also filled, probably took place via a short tributary of the Wellbach flowing north of Lindweiler.

Current condition

Courtyard on the former castle site

Today's manor was built after the old castle building was demolished in 1846, with the manor indicating the location of the former castle house. Neither structures nor remains of the trenches have been preserved above ground.

literature

Ralf Gier: Freilingen Castle. Edited by Heimatverein Blankenheim. Blankenheim 2002, p. 40ff. (= Around castle and spring. No. 97)
Hans Henn, Annemarie Reetz: Blankenheim. The places of the community Blankenheim in old pictures. Part 2. Meinerzhagener Druck- und Verlagshaus, Meinerzhagen 1984, ISBN 3-88913-081-X , p. 149f.
Harald Herzog: Castles and palaces, history and typology of the aristocratic seats in the Euskirchen district . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7927-1067-6 , pp. 375-376.
Gudrun Wilms-Reinking (Ed.): Anna Schmitz. Nu think ens aan ... A hundred year old tells. Kaktus-Verlag, Münster 1981, ISBN 3-922034-11-X , p. 12ff.
Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Schleiden district. Schwann, 1932, p. 319. (Reprint 1982, ISBN 3-590-32116-4 . (= The Art Monuments of the Rhine Province. Volume 11, Part II))
Herbert Weffer: family book pipe. The inhabitants of the Eifel village Rohr with Lindweiler in the 18th century. o. publisher. Bonn 1994, DNB 952802163 .

Web links

Entry on Lindweiler in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Entry on Lindweiler in the private database "Alle Burgen".

Individual evidence

^ Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Volume 4. Folder 247-356. COBERN-EERDE. (Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, based in Cologne, No. 64). Cologne 1993, p. 526 f.
^ Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Volume 4., folder 247-356. COBERN-EERDE. (Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, based in Cologne, No. 64). Cologne 1993, p. 528.
^ Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Volume 10., folder 765-831. LÖVENICH-MIRMAN. (Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, Cologne seat. No. 78). Cologne 1996, p. 588.
^ Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Volume 7., folder 519-584. GRUITHAUSEN-vd HEIDT gt. HUNGERKHAUSEN. (Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, based in Cologne, No. 73). Cologne 1994, p. 580 f.
^ Ralf Gier: Freilingen Castle. (= Around castle and spring. No. 97). Edited by Heimatverein Blankenheim. Blankenheim 2002, p. 40 ff.
^ Gudrun Wilms-Reinking (Ed.): Anna Schmitz. Nu think ens aan ... A hundred year old tells. Kaktus-Verlag. Münster 1981, ISBN 3-922034-11-X , p. 12.
^ Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Volume 9., folder 666-764. HÜCHELHOVEN-LOUVENBERG. (Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, based in Cologne, No. 77). Cologne 1995, p. 172 f.

[1] Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Volume 4. Folder 247-356. COBERN-EERDE. (Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, based in Cologne, No. 64). Cologne 1993, p. 526 f.

[2] Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Volume 4., folder 247-356. COBERN-EERDE. (Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, based in Cologne, No. 64). Cologne 1993, p. 528.

[3] Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Volume 10., folder 765-831. LÖVENICH-MIRMAN. (Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, Cologne seat. No. 78). Cologne 1996, p. 588.

[4] Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Volume 7., folder 519-584. GRUITHAUSEN-vd HEIDT gt. HUNGERKHAUSEN. (Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, based in Cologne, No. 73). Cologne 1994, p. 580 f.

[5] Ralf Gier: Freilingen Castle. (= Around castle and spring. No. 97). Edited by Heimatverein Blankenheim. Blankenheim 2002, p. 40 ff.

[6] Gudrun Wilms-Reinking (Ed.): Anna Schmitz. Nu think ens aan ... A hundred year old tells. Kaktus-Verlag. Münster 1981, ISBN 3-922034-11-X , p. 12.

[7] Herbert M. Schleicher: Ernst von Oidtman and his genealogical-heraldic collection in the University Library in Cologne. Volume 9., folder 666-764. HÜCHELHOVEN-LOUVENBERG. (Publications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV, based in Cologne, No. 77). Cologne 1995, p. 172 f.