Steinbach Castle
| Steinbach Castle | ||
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| Creation time : | 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Place: | Untersteinbach | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 2 '35.4 " N , 7 ° 21' 14.3" E | |
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The castle Steinbach is an Outbound castle in Untersteinbach , about three kilometers north of Lindlar in Oberbergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The Steinbach office in the Duchy of Berg was administered from the castle . The Steinbach Fortress is expressly mentioned in 1397, 1402 and 1423. In a document dated September 6, 1363, the Steinbach office is noted: "Item de Wipperfelde, Bechen, Curten, Oylpe, Lyntlan, Ouerroide, Engelskirchen, Keppel et parochia de Wippervuerde in officio de Steynbech". Until the end of the Duchy of Berg in 1806 it roughly corresponded to the Wipperfürth district that existed from 1816 to 1932 . The origins of the office and castle go back to the 13th century. The locality of Untersteinbach was a farm that belonged directly to the sovereign. Later, in the 16th and 17th centuries, Neuenberg Castle in Lindlar-Frielingsdorf was the seat of the officials .
In the Lindlar church accounts in 1573, 1577 and 1656, however, an electoral court court in Untersteinbach appears. The hall name “am Galgenböschelchen” still seems to be related to it.
The castle was located on a meadow at Siefen Steinbach below Untersteinbach. Only a small amount remained. A small, up to 1.5 m mound contained remains of foundations 10 to 15 m in diameter. The teacher A. Vogt from Linde wrote about this passage in 1876: "The ruins are in a valley, in a meadow and nothing more can be seen than a ring-shaped elevation, sunk in the middle, of small extent". There was a dam below the castle; the dammed pond surrounded the castle house. The last visible remains of the wall and wood of the castle house were removed in 1962; the site was leveled by 1965; there are still stones with traces of mortar on the stream.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Paul Clemen (ed.): The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 5 - districts of Gummersbach, Waldbroel and Wipperfürth. Düsseldorf, 1900.
- ^ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet : Document book. Volume III, No. 1033, page 920/921, document dated October 24, 1397; Volume IV, No. 7, page 6/7, certificate dated March 12, 1402; Volume 4, No. 11, pages 10–12, certificate dated March 13, 1402; Volume IV, No. 147, page 165, document dated April 13, 1423
- ^ Hermann Hengstenberg: The former Duchy of Berg. 2nd edition, 1896, page 26
- ^ A b Karl Wilhelm Heuser: The Steinbach Castle. A contribution to the history of the Bergisches Amt Steinbach. In: Romerike Berge . Journal for the Bergisches Land, Volume 25, 1975, pp. 55-64
- ^ A b Josef Gronewald: Buildings and streets in Lindlar. 1996 ( online ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; PDF; 993 kB).
- ↑ Gerda Panofsky-Soergerl: The monuments of the Rhineland - Rheinisch Bergischer Kreis, Volume 2. Series “The monuments of the Rhineland”, Vol. 18-20, Düsseldorf, Odenthal: Schwann. 1972-1974.
- ↑ Josef Gronewald: Memories: From old Lindlar and my life. Printed by: Druckerei Braun, Lindlar, 1999, page 16
- ↑ Monthly of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , Volume 24, 1917, p. 80. Quoted from Heuser
