Müggenhausen Castle
| Müggenhausen Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | 14th century | |
| Castle type : | Moated castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Place: | Müggenhausen | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 42 '47 " N , 6 ° 52' 40.6" E | |
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The castle Müggenhausen is a castle in Müggenhausen , a district of Weilerswist in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
At the end of the 14th century, a Junker Johann from the Cologne noble family Scherffgin was named. In 1473, Friedrich von Sombreff, Herr zu Tomburg, had to cede his Müggemhausen property to the Duke of Jülich . The ruler was and remained the Archbishop of Cologne until 1794 . After 1490 the castle was owned by Beissel von Gymnich , Grein zu Iversheim, von Goltstein zu Breill and von Schellart. After the Schellart came the Esken and von Siegen, and finally the Barons von Schiller. The last of the family sold the property to Maximilian Freiherrn von der Heysen in 1782, called Belderbusch, the brother of the State Minister of the Electorate of Cologne, Kaspar Anton Graf von Belderbusch. Both had acquired a total of 24 castles and noble estates since 1769.
In the purchase contract, the castle was described as an old, uninhabited castle house, before that a good half-house with a courtyard, barn and stables. The ownership of the von Belderbuschs passed to Karl Freiherrn von Boeselager-Heesen. The family is still the owner.
The castle house, which was already described as a ruin in 1782, is no longer recorded on the Tranchot map of the early 19th century. The mansion area was surrounded on three sides by a defensive wall and had corner turrets and keyhole loopholes . There was additional protection by means of moats within the walls . The area has been used as a garden since the 19th century, only a pond remains of the trenches.
Current condition
All that remains of the castle is a brick wall with two low, round corner towers and the adjoining manor from the 18th and 19th centuries. Century.
The three-winged outer bailey is still used as a farmyard today. It was largely renewed in the 19th century. The Halfenhaus from 1792 was also renovated.
Today the "Horse Clinic Burg Müggenhausen" is located in the property.
literature
- Harald Herzog: Castles and palaces, history and typology of the aristocratic seats in the Euskirchen district, Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7927-1226-1 , p. 391.
