Vernaburg Castle
Vernaburg | ||
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Alternative name (s): | Krewetburg | |
Creation time : | 1607 | |
Castle type : | Niederungsburg | |
Conservation status: | Ruin, residential tower, 3 corner towers | |
Standing position : | manor suitable for landscape | |
Place: | Salzkotten - Verne | |
Geographical location | 51 ° 41 '15.8 " N , 8 ° 34' 1.7" E | |
Height: | 98 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Verna Castle , also Krewetburg called, is the ruins of a moated castle in the village of Verne (Krewetstrasse 3) of the city of Salzkotten in the circle Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
The castle was founded in 1607 by Wilhelm von Krewet from an important Paderborn ministerial family, which was one of the 'four noble mares and columns' of the cathedral chapter, in order to relocate its seat from the freedom in Salzkotten here. The male line of the Krevet died out as early as 1638 and their goods in Verne with the Vernaburg and the Eulenknapp came to the von Brenken family .
The castle played an important role in the Thirty Years War during the siege and destruction of the city of Salzkotten. After the von Krewet family died out, the castle lost its importance and fell into disrepair. In documents from the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) the castle is mentioned as a ruin, the keep and a residential building were demolished, the moat was filled. It was not until 1990 that a round Gothic residential tower was discovered near the ruins .
Web links
- Document requests for Vernaburg from the Haus Erpernburg archive in Büren / digital Westphalian document database (DWUD)
- Vernaburg ruins , burgen-und-schloesser.net
- Historical information from Verne Vernaburg ( Memento from August 26, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Henkel : History and geography of the Büren district. Paderborn 1974, p. 228 f. Michael Lagers: The Paderborn pin needle in the middle of the 15th century - studies on the development and expansion of power structures of the lower nobility. (= Friedrich Gerhard Hohmann: Studies and sources for Westphalian history. Vol. 74), Paderborn 2013, p. 154 f.