Meinhövel Castle
| Meinhövel Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | before 1242 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Castle stable, earthworks and remains of trenches | |
| Standing position : | Ministerial official of a noble noble family | |
| Place: | Nordkirchen , Coesfeld district | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 45 '1.4 " N , 7 ° 31' 58.5" E | |
| Height: | 56 m above sea level NHN | |
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The castle My Hoevel is an Outbound Wasserburg a few hundred meters north-northeast of North Churches in the district of Coesfeld in North Rhine-Westphalia .
Location and current state
The castle was located a good 500 m east of the road on the Teufelsbach , which ran from Nordkirchen to Münster and fed its forces . Remains of ditches and ramparts can be seen in the Meinhöveler Forest . Immediately north of the Teufelsbach there is a round structure with a diameter of 97 meters that rises above the surroundings and is assigned to the former main castle . Except for an entrance from the north, the elevation is surrounded by a ditch that still carries water today. A significantly larger ring structure (diameter 177 meters) adjoining it to the north presumably carried the farm buildings of the outer bailey . It is also lined with a moat on the outside. Until the 1980s, the remains of Meinhövel Castle lay in damp meadows and pastures. The area was then reforested in order to save the cost of complex drainage. During the reforestation, the smaller of the two ring walls in the east was flattened to make the area more even.
Today the site belongs to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , which acquired it in 2004 from the Duke of Arenberg .
history
The Meinhövel family was an old noble noble family whose origins are lost in the dark of history. In older literature , it is assumed that the builder of Meinhövel Castle was Hermann I, son of Ethelhard and brother of Albion . He is said to have died as a general of the Saxons against Charlemagne in 789 near Harstatt and to have been married to Asta, the sister of the Norwegian king.
There was probably a tribal relationship with those of Bevern , Steinfurt and Munster (who have a similar coat of arms) and other Westphalian dynasties .
The Men of My Hovel had extensive estates in Davensberg , Selm and Northern churches and questioned the Vizevögte the counts of Tecklenburg , together with the Count of funds the pin Bailiwick of Mimigernaford presided. During the first half of the 13th century they came into conflict with the Münster sovereign Ludolf von Holte . On June 27, 1242 the Meinhöveler and their allies were defeated by the prince-bishop's troops in the battle of Ermen near Lüdinghausen . Meinhövel Castle was probably destroyed after this defeat.
discussion
Germania Sacra considers the existence of Meinhövel Castle to be unproven and unlikely, but relates this statement to a previous castle on the site of Wolbeck Castle . The fact that the Nordkirchen Castle was actually the ancestral home of the Meinhövel family is, among other things. a. supported by a lawsuit that Bertha von Munster zu Diepenbrock, a descendant of the Meinhövels, brought against the noble Morrien family, who also lived in Nordkirchen, before the Imperial Court of Justice. Morrien denied that there was an earlier aristocratic residence of the Meinhövel family in Nordkirchen when Bertha moved to Nordkirchen, referring to her old rights, to build a residential tower half a kilometer west of the castle stable next to the mill on the Teufelsbach. She has apparently won the process that ultimately led to supremacy in Nordkirchen and her son was able to gradually expand the residential tower into a handsome castle.
It is not absolutely certain whether a battle at Ermen actually took place in 1242. The sons of the widow von Meinhövel are said to have died in the battle. However, according to Peter Ilisch, there are no deaths in the family in the year 1242 and the documents of the time prove an unimpaired relationship with the bishop.
literature
- Hildegard Schlutius: The ring walls in Meinhövel, municipality of Nordkirchen , our district - history and happenings 2013 (history sheets of the district of Coesfeld, 38th year, 2013), Kreisheimatverein Coesfeld eV (ed.), Pages 267–277
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Hildegard Schlutius: The ring walls in Meinhövel, municipality of Nordkirchen , Our district - history and happenings 2013 (history sheets of the district of Coesfeld, 38th year, 2013), Kreisheimatverein Coesfeld eV (ed.), Pages 267-277
- ↑ New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 6, p. 414.
- ^ Rudolfine Freiin von Oer: Münster, Counts of. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 532 f. ( Digitized version ).
- ^ A b Wilhelm Kohl in Germania Sacra NF 37.1, The Dioceses of the Church Province of Cologne. The diocese of Münster 7.1. The diocese. , P. 125.
- ^ Helmut Müller: Davensberg, Burg and Flecken on the Davensberg website
- ^ Wilhelm Kohl in Germania Sacra NF 37.1, The Dioceses of the Church Province of Cologne. The diocese of Münster 7.1. The diocese. , P. 24.
- ↑ Freckenhorster annotated data collection (Part I - 1949) on the homepage of the Freckenhorst Heimatverein