Rohr Castle (Blankenheim)

Rohr Castle
	Rohr Castle, preserved tower
Creation time :	presumably 13th century
Castle type :	Location
Conservation status:	Burgstall, small remains
Standing position :	Noblemen
Construction:	Quarry stone
Place:	pipe
Geographical location	50 ° 27 '8.2 " N , 6 ° 44' 2.6" E Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '8.2 " N , 6 ° 44' 2.6" E
Height:	455 m above sea level NHN

former servants' house with tower (2014)

The castle pipe is an Outbound castle in the district pipe the municipality Blankenheim in the district of Euskirchen in North Rhine-Westphalia, High Street first

history

The von Rohr family (also Rore) can be traced back to the 13th century in Bonn. Their connection to the family recorded in Rohr up to the 15th century has not yet been established due to a lack of sources. The last name bearer was Elsa von Rohr, who brought the house to Clais Huist von Ulmen zu Ulmen in the 15th century . Her granddaughter Margaretha Haust von Ulmen then married Thomas Print von Horchheim called Broel d. In 1496. Ä., Herr zu Oberehe und Rohr, electoral Cologne councilor and bailiff in Kronenburg († February 22, 1543), whose grave slab is still in the Rohrer parish church today. Her grandson, the Duke of Jules Chancellor Nikolaus Print von Horchheim called Broel († May 4, 1598), Herr zu Oberehe, Rohr and Rath was perhaps the most important name bearer. From his daughter Margaretha († July 8, 1661) the Rohr family came to Wilhelm Spies von Büllesheim († 1662) through marriage (1617 ). The Spies von Büllesheim then remained in the possession of Rohr until 1794. During this time they repeatedly appointed chamber lords, secret or official councilors in the service of the Duke of Jülich .

Rohr itself, on the other hand, was in Blankenheimer Landen , which repeatedly led to (legal) disputes with the neighboring Duke of Arenberg , who asserted claims on the house of Rohr. The disputes, which also involved a grinding mill located on the Armuthsbach and belonging to the castle , did not come to an end until 1745, when an agreement was reached between the Counts of Manderscheid-Blankenheim and the officials of the Duke of Arenberg, according to which half of the farm was to be reed was an Arenberg fiefdom . The other half went to the Spies von Büllesheim. But the legal division between the Blankenheimers, the Arenbergers and their vassal Spies von Büllesheim remained complicated.

Rohr Castle fell into bourgeois hands as a result of the French Revolution after 1794. The mansion lost its importance and may have been uninhabited since that time. The last remains of it were removed around 1900 in favor of a half-timbered syringe house. The servants' house was inhabited by the village blacksmith around 1893.

description

The irregular layout in the middle of the village was one of the many smaller castle houses in the region that were inhabited by a country nobleman. The area, which spanned a good two acres, was surrounded by a wall almost one meter thick. It is bounded to the north by today's Hochstraße, to the west and south by St. Martins-Weg and to the east by Wendelinusstraße. Designed with several towers, the complex still looked very defensive on a drawing by Roidkins from around 1725, but this probably more demonstrated the status of the owners than corresponded to reality.

The mansion was set back on a moat about 20 meters square. While the servants' house underwent a renovation at least in 1724, other parts of the building seem to be of even older origin. When the memorial was recorded for the inventory of art monuments in the Schleiden district published in 1932, there were still inscriptions on a barn dated to 1706 and 1521. According to Herzog, a tower house comparable to those of Arloff and Kirspenich is conceivable as a 14th century mansion . The extensive outer bailey can be typologically linked to Haus Zievel .

Current condition

Enclosing wall (2014)

Only remnants of the surrounding wall can be found in the surrounding gardens of what was once the entire complex . On the main road leading through the village stands the servants' house, possibly from the 16th century, with an attached semicircular tower. However, nothing can be seen of the actual manor house and the surrounding trenches.

The castle building and the preserved part of the surrounding wall were registered on July 15, 1988 as architectural monument no. 138 and 139 in part A of the list of monuments of the municipality of Blankenheim.

literature

Johannes Becker: History of the parishes of the deanery Blankenheim. (= History of the parishes of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Volume IV) JP Bachem, Cologne 1893, p. 516.
Harald Herzog: Castles and palaces, history and typology of the aristocratic seats in the Euskirchen district. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7927-1067-6 , pp. 430-432.
Hans Lamberty, Willi Mathei: pipe. Chronicle of a village over 1100 years old. 893-1993. o. Verlag, Rohr 1993.
Peter Neu: The Arenbergs and the Arenberger Land. Volume 2. The ducal family and their Eifel estates 1616–1794. (= Publications of the Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz. Volume 67), Koblenz 1995, ISBN 3-931014-26-6 , pp. 321–323.
Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Schleiden district. (= The art monuments of the Rhine Province. Volume 11, Part II). Schwann 1932 (reprint 1982 ISBN 3-590-32116-4 ), p. 318.
Herbert Weffer: family book pipe. The inhabitants of the Eifel village Rohr with Lindweiler in the 18th century. o. Verlag, Bonn 1994.

Web links

Commons : Burg Rohr (Blankenheim) - Collection of images

Entry on Rohr in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Entry for Rohr in the private database "All Castles".