Nienburg Castle
| Nienburg Castle | ||
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 Burgrest Nienburg Ostenfelde |
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| Alternative name (s): | Nygeborg | |
| Creation time : | 14th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgrest, keep stump | |
| Standing position : | Nobles | |
| Place: | Ennigerloh - Ostenfelde | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 51 '40.7 " N , 8 ° 5' 41.2" E | |
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The castle Nienburg is a former moated castle in a forest east of Ennigerloher hamlet Ostenfelde in the district of Warendorf in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
The moated castle, called "castrum tor Horst" in the 14th century, was rebuilt in 1422 as an episcopal fief ("Nygeborg"). The owners were the noblemen von der Lippe until 1358, then a Herr zur Horst followed, 1422 Hermann von Ostenfelde, 1481 Jasper von Oer auf Haus Geist, 1494 Lüdeke von Vinke von Ostenfelde, 1510 Anna von Landsberg, wife of Fröndt Droste zu Erwitte the Droste zu Erwitte came into the possession of the Nienburg in 1540. 1557 Johan von Drost, 1595 Dietrich von Droste and 1622–1638 Johann Eberhard Droste. This was very rich and the owner at that time, Adolf von Nagel, owned the Loburg, the Keuschenburg, was in serious debt. He borrowed money from Johann Eberhard Droste to pay off his debts, but did not think about repaying them. So Johann Eberhard Droste took Keuschenburg in a legal pledge. Dietrich Hermann von Nagel , who lives in Vornholz and a relative of Adolf von Nagel, did not agree with this. As sergeant-general of Prince-Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen, he overran Johann Eberhard Droste, whereupon he was found guilty. Although he appealed to the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Speyer, which then suspended the process, which initially had no consequences. Johann Eberhard Droste was arrested on April 26, 1675 and destroyed on August 7, 1675 by the soldiers of Dietrich Hermann von Nagel on the orders of Prince Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen. In 1685, the Keuschenburg and Nienburg were re-assigned as owners to Johann Eberhard Droste . On November 1, 1697, a relative of Christoph Bernhard von Nagel also bought the Keuschenburg and the destroyed Nienburg Castle from "the blessed Lord von Droste zu Nienborg".
description
The castle rest is hidden on a hiking trail in a swampy wooded area that is difficult to access and still shows the stump of the former keep and moats .
According to a legend, a treasure is said to be buried here, which is guarded by a "giggling and chain-rattling devil".
Web links
- Nienburg nox-westfalica.de
- Nienburg ruins , Ennigerloh city tourism
- The Nienburg project (formerly the ostenfelde.info website in the Internet Archive) ( Memento from January 6, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Westfälisches Landesarchiv Ketteler, No. 146