Rodenberg Castle
| Rodenberg Castle | ||
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 Presumed hall |
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| Alternative name (s): | Rodenburg | |
| Creation time : | before 1249 | |
| Castle type : | Höhenburg, spur location | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Ministerial; Archbishops | |
| Place: | Menden (Sauerland) | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 26 '4.3 " N , 7 ° 48' 26.3" E | |
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The Castle Rodenberg or Rodenburg is at the giant head in the area of today's city Menden (Sauerland) . As Spornburg, it was the ancestral seat of the von Rodenberg family . It later became the property of the Archbishops of Cologne . After the destruction in 1301 it was not rebuilt. Today it is a ruin .
history
It was built before 1249. It stands on a mountain spur that slopes north, south and west above the Hönne river . It was the headquarters of the ministerial family of the Lords of Rodenberg . They had considerable fiefs and property in the area of what is now the city of Menden. The Rodenberg family acquired the Free County of Menden from the Counts of Arnsberg in 1272 . Because they abused their rights, the Archbishop of Cologne Siegfried von Westerburg used the opportunity to pull the castle to himself and to provide it with his own castle men. As early as 1262 he raised Menden to the rank of town, which was temporarily destroyed again after the Battle of Worringen in 1288. For lack of money, the castle was pledged to the Count von Berg . He passed them on to the Counts of the Mark . Only Archbishop Wigbold von Holte managed to bring the castle back under archbishop control. Only a short time later, the castle was successfully besieged and destroyed by Count Eberhard II von der Mark in 1301 . King Albrecht granted permission to rebuild in 1306, but this did not materialize. The fortress function was taken over by the walled city of Menden with a city castle.
investment
The castle was examined in the 1950s. A two-part system protected by a system of walls and ditches was partially exposed. In the west of the mountain spur, a building with the dimensions of 18 × 10 meters was discovered and secured. It is believed that this is about the Palas is the system. The ruin is freely accessible.
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literature
- Jens Friedhoff : Sauerland and Siegerland. 70 castles and palaces. Stuttgart 2002, (Theiss Burgenführer) ISBN 3-8062-1706-8 , p. 121
Web links
- Entry on Rodenberg Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".