Rauendahl Castle

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Rauendahl Castle
Ruhr near Rauendahl, Hattingen

Ruhr near Rauendahl , Hattingen

Alternative name (s): Ruwendahl
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: small residues
Standing position : Nobles
Geographical location 51 ° 24 '30 "  N , 7 ° 10' 49"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '30 "  N , 7 ° 10' 49"  E
Height: 90  m above sea level NN

The castle Rauendahl also Ruwendahl is called an Outbound Castle , the opposite house cliff on the right side of the Ruhr in Welper was. Today this place should be on the grounds of the Henrichshütte in Hattingen .

The Niederungsburg was a base for the Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Westphalia . It supposedly belonged to a Hardenberger who made the area unsafe as a robber baron . In any case, Count Eberhard I von der Mark destroyed the castle in 1287.

When the water level in the Ruhr is low , the remains of the wall and steps of a staircase can still be seen, which presumably belong to the castle complex. In 1803 urns, tools and iron parts from weapons and harnesses were found during the construction of a coal defeat, which were examined and described by Carl Arnold Kortum .

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