Reineberg Castle

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Reineberg Castle
Reineberg Castle

Reineberg Castle

Alternative name (s): Reineburg
Creation time : 13th Century
Castle type : Hilltop castle
Conservation status: Moat
Place: Luebbecke
Geographical location 52 ° 17 '39.5 "  N , 8 ° 37' 42.5"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 17 '39.5 "  N , 8 ° 37' 42.5"  E
Height: 275.9  m above sea level NN
Reineberg Castle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Reineberg Castle

The castle Reineberg , even Reine Burg called, is a former hilltop castle on the 275.9-meter-high Reineberg in Wiehengebirge in the southern city of Lübbecke in the so called Pure Berger Hagen in the Minden-Lübbecke in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The beginnings of the Landesburg Reineberg are lost in the legend. According to the bishop's chronicles of the city of Minden , the foundation of the castle goes back to Bishop Konrad I von Rüdenberg (1209–1237). Osnabrück sources, however, report that the Osnabrück bishop Adolf von Tecklenburg (1216-1224) was a co-builder.

Reinberg Castle was first mentioned in a document in 1221. At the end of the 13th century, the bishop of Osnabrück and the von Minden were joint "owners" of the castle. Reineberg Castle served the Bishops of Minden as a fortified base for their power. It was about to assert oneself from here against the bishop of Osnabrück , the counts of Tecklenburg and the noblemen of Diepholz . Later its importance grew even more as the administration of the territory expanded. As already mentioned, Reineberg Castle was initially jointly owned by the neighboring Principal Dioceses of Minden and Osnabrück in accordance with a treaty from 1306.

In 1412 we find the knight Dietrich von Münchhausen as pledge holder of the castle in a dispute with his sovereign Bishop Wulbrand and the cathedral chapter of Minden, because he had pledged the Reineberg to Count Nicholas II of Tecklenburg without their consent. The bishop protested and besieged the castle. The Tecklenburgers came to action, but were driven out by Lübbeck citizens with the support of Drosten zum Limberg , Allhard von dem Busche . The attempts by the Tecklenburgers to take possession of the castle had failed.

According to a contemporary description of the Minden canon Tribbe from the 15th century, Reineberg Castle was a strong bulwark .

The Reineburg, like almost all castles of this type, was often pledged due to the chronic lack of money of the sovereigns. Around 1525 we find Johann Tribbe as Drosten zum Reineberg. In 1543 the castle was pledged to a widow Clara von Hatzfeld and her sons Meinolf and Joachim. However, Bishop Georg had scarcely reached the government in 1554 when he made the decision to redeem all the pledged locks of his monastery. Therefore, he also canceled the pledge from the current leaseholder, Hilmar von Quernheim . He wanted to keep his pledge and actually managed to extend it to several years until the bishop finally had the pledge canceled in the spring of 1564. Since Hilmar von Quernheim did not react, the bishop stormed the castle on May 2nd. But as early as 1567, after a settlement, Hilmar was given the castle again as a pledge for twelve years. During the Thirty Years War , the castle on the Reineberg was badly damaged and plundered three times, in 1636, 1638 and 1640.

On September 9, 1636, the Imperial Sergeant Heister had the entire registry burned on the Reineberge. On March 28, 1673, Munster troops took Lübbecke and Reineberg as part of the Franco-Dutch War, as Brandenburg was on the side of the Netherlands . Then it became that the Principality of Minden had come to Brandenburg in the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 - quieter around the old bishop's castle. In 1719 Friedrich Wilhelm I had ordered the unification of the County of Ravensberg with Minden, and the expansion of the War and Domain Chamber in Minden took place in 1723-1808 as supra-local supervision of the administration of the five Minden and eight Ravensberg offices. The Reineburg was pledged several times, including the associated office, and was demolished on the orders of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I in 1723 because it was dilapidated. What was still usable from her was used partly to build the government building in Minden and partly to build the new office building in Reineberger Felde (called "zum Siek"), where some farm buildings already stood.

Eventually the castle came under the general influence of the Bishop of Minden and became a Mindische Landesburg . The entrenchments in front of the castle indicate medieval siege technology. From the domain of the castle, the Mindic office of Reineberg developed, later the office of Hüllhorst . As a rudimentary remnant of this castle complex, only the moat is visible on the summit , which has a total length of 310 meters and is between 15 and 22 meters wide.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Castle Reineberg in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute

Web links

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