Mauel Castle (Gemünd)
| Mauel Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | 14th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | not available anymore | |
| Place: | Gemünd | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 34 '19 " N , 6 ° 30' 41.6" E | |
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The castle Mauel was a castle in Sarreguemines , a district of Schleiden in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The castle probably stood in the Burgauel corridor , which is now completely overbuilt.
Mauel Castle emerged from an aristocratic seat . The noble family of the same name was first mentioned in 1353 when they were in the service of the Lords of Schleiden. The castle, like other houses in its vicinity, was closely related to the local iron production and processing.
It is known that a Gerhart von Mauel tried with his wife in 1446 to immortalize himself by donating an annual pension to the Schleiden parish church. In the Jülich feud in 1542, the castle was burned down by the imperial troops. The owner at the time, Wilhelm von Goltstein , Bailiff zu Lontzen and bailiff von Schleiden, was financially strong enough to rebuild the property. His son-in-law Johann Schellart von Obbendorf became the owner of the castle through marriage in 1594.
Mauel Castle has always had the right to operate an ironworks , which was mentioned as early as 1420. This right was probably the main reason for the acquisition of the property by Freiherr von Harff in 1658. He will not have had any interest in the castle, which was then already half-ruined. In 1711 the fiefdom was broken . Iron hammers and a paper mill as well as a steel mill were built. The steel factory was the nucleus of the factory that was moved to Düsseldorf in 1860 . The operators of the company Poensgen & Schoeller were then Albert Poensgen and his brother-in-law Friedrich Wilhelm Schoeller .
In 1930 it was only possible to reconstruct the outline of a simple castle house in the form of an angle with a stair tower and a strong corner tower on the basis of cadastral documents .
This castle shows how closely the castles in this area were linked to iron extraction and smelting.
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. 382.