Munchausen Castle

Munchausen Castle
	Munchausen Castle
Creation time :	First mentioned in 893
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	largely preserved
Standing position :	Clerical
Construction:	Tufa
Place:	Wachtberg
Geographical location	50 ° 36 '40.7 " N , 7 ° 2' 40.2" E Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '40.7 " N , 7 ° 2' 40.2" E

The castle Munchausen is the oldest castle of the municipality Wachtberg in Bonn . It stands as a monument under monument protection .

History and architecture

The castle is located in the extreme west of the municipality Wachtberg in the district Adendorf at Swist and was originally with moats as Wasserburg created. The first written mention was in Prüm Urbar of 893. The building fabric in the form of castle keep and gate tower consists partly of Tuff ™ stones.

In the first mention, the castle belonged to the imperial monastery Prüm . After it got to the Counts of Are-Hochstaden , it came to Kurköln in 1246 through the donation of Hochstadensche . It was used as a bulwark and at times as a customs post on the coronation road to Aachen. In 1525 Bartholomäus von der Leyen from the noble family von der Leyens bought Münchhausen Castle and the sheep farm .

From the original, water-reinforced round structure of the 12th / 13th centuries. In the 19th century, only the three-storey palace with a rounded outer wall, two towers, the keep and the gate tower remain. The basalt foundations and the cast concrete blocks were dismantled and reused by the Roman Eifel aqueduct that passed by . At the end of the 13th century, the keep and gate tower were increased by one storey. The walled-up pointed arch of a former passage is visible in the outer wall of the gate tower. A two-storey, plastered house from the 18th century stands on the old wall between the hall and the gate tower.

Today the castle is a riding stables with a restaurant.

Aerial view from the west (2014)

literature

Georg Dehio ; Edited by Magnus Backes: Hessen . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . First volume. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1966.

Web links

Commons : Münchhausen Castle - Collection of images

Entry on Münchhausen Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute

Individual evidence

↑ List of monuments of the municipality of Wachtberg , number A 34
^ Klaus Grewe : Aqueducts. Water for Rome's cities , Regionalia Verlag, Rheinbach 2014. (Part B, Eifelwasserleitung, Chapter 2, The Roman Canal - Quarry of the Middle Ages, p. 292–94)
↑ Georg Dehio; Edited by Magnus Backes : Hessen . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . First volume. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1966, p. 73 .

[1] List of monuments of the municipality of Wachtberg , number A 34

[2] Klaus Grewe : Aqueducts. Water for Rome's cities , Regionalia Verlag, Rheinbach 2014. (Part B, Eifelwasserleitung, Chapter 2, The Roman Canal - Quarry of the Middle Ages, p. 292–94)

[3] Georg Dehio; Edited by Magnus Backes : Hessen . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . First volume. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1966, p. 73 .