Seinsfeld Castle
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| Alternative name (s): | Hellermannsfeld Castle | |
| Creation time : | around 1325 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Preserved essential parts | |
| Standing position : | Count | |
| Place: | Field of being | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 3 '42 " N , 6 ° 38' 17" E | |
| Height: | 440 m above sea level NHN | |
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The castle Seinsfeld even lock Hellermann field called, dates back to a moated castle north of the municipality Seinsfeld in Bitburg-Prüm in Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
The exact time the castle was built is not known. It was first mentioned in a document in 1325 when it was transferred from King John of Bohemia to Arnold von Blankenheim .
The oldest building remains of the castle date from the 15th century. Large parts were rebuilt in the 17th to 18th centuries.
In 1794 Freiherr Ernst von Berg sold the castle to the notary Lothar Munich from Dudeldorf , in 1817 it was acquired by Mr Duvain and in 1817 Mr Carl Leist and Heinrich Carl Hellermann from Meisenheim owned the castle, which was now also called Hellermannsfeld Castle . In 1890 the west wing of the castle was demolished. From 1920 the castle was owned by Heinrich Josef Leist.
The west wing of the castle was rebuilt around 1935 and 1949. After the Second World War it served as a children's rest home. Today the castle is privately owned and inhabited.
investment
The castle complex, surrounded by a moat up to 17 m wide and 6 m deep, with a partially still visible wall on the outside, is almost circular with a diameter of 60 m.
On the north side there are still 2.50 m thick outer walls with inner arched niches where a closed battlement with loopholes led to the defense tower in the west of the castle. On the east side you can still see the attachment points of a drawbridge , which has been replaced by a stone bridge today, and two gravestones are set in the stair tower in the inner courtyard.
literature
- Gerda Dreiser: The Wasserburg Seinsfeld . In: Home calendar for the Bitburg-Prüm district (1974), pp. 128-131.
- Josef Heck: Chronicle of the parish St. Dionysius and the parishes of Seinsfeld, Steinborn, Kyllburgweiler, St. Thomas and Zendscheid. The villages and farms of the parish of Seinsfeld through the ages . Rommersheim 2004.
Web links
- Entry on Seinsfeld Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Entry on Seinsfeld Castle in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
- Entry on Seinsfeld Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".