Sotterbach Castle

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The castle Sotterbach is a festival house or Kasteel (Low German for castle ) in the same district of the municipality Reichshof in the Oberbergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .

description

Sotterbach Castle, south side

The two-story massive building made of up to 80 centimeters thick quarry stone walls has eight window axes on its long sides and two window axes on the narrow sides and is covered by a simple hipped roof. Like the outbuildings belonging to the property, the castle is now presented in bright yellow plaster. Inscriptions in the form of iron anchors can be found on three sides: On the northern side of the eaves - "1 7 3 9"; on the western gable side - "ANS"; on the southern eaves side - "AMVL".

history

The number 1739 on the outside refers to the year of a fundamental renovation, not to the year of construction itself, as the building is certainly much older, at least in its core.

Sotterbach was first mentioned in a document as early as 1141 as the residence of a feudal man of Count von Berg , Olfiz von Sittinberg . In 1583 Sotterbach was one of six saddles owned by the lords of Bieberstein , von Karthaus and von Lixfeld in the parish of Eckenhagen .

In the 17th century the estate fell to the noble Ley family , as the name anchors on the south side recall AMVL - abbreviation for Anna Margarete von Ley , through whose marriage the now converted stately castle house came into the possession of Wilhelm Bernhard Hasenclever , judge and rentmaster of the Windeck office .

In the second half of the 18th century , the estate was owned by the Freckhausen organ builders, the Kleine brothers (see also the baroque church in Eckenhagen ), who bequeathed it to their son-in-law Sigismund Roetzel , who was also an organ builder.

Not least by French billeting and imperial troops degenerated into the property, but resisted because of its solid construction the final decline and was in the 70s of the last century are being restored at considerable expense.

swell

  • Dietrich Rentsch: Oberbergischer Kreis. Vol. 1 & 2, Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1967.
    • Oberbergischer Kreis 1. Bergneustadt - Marienberghausen (= The monuments of the Rhineland. Vol. 10).
    • Oberbergischer Kreis 2. Marienheide - Wiehl (= The monuments of the Rhineland. Vol. 11).
  • Jürgen Woelke (Ed.): The villages in the old parish of Eckenhagen. In contemporary images and documents. Reichshof 1978.

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 5.8 "  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 53.8"  E