Wevelinghoven Castle
| Wevelinghoven Castle | ||
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 Coat of arms of those of Wevelinghoven |
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| Alternative name (s): | Moth in the Zubend | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall, castle hill | |
| Place: | Grevenbroich - City of Wevelinghoven | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 6 '36.8 " N , 6 ° 37' 20.4" E | |
| Height: | 46 m above sea level NN | |
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The castle Wevelinghoven , also known as moth in Zubend called, is a Outbound Turmhügelburg (moth) on Klosterweg on the left Erft banks in Grevenbroich district town Wevelinghoven in Rhein-Kreis Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The castle was the family seat of the Lords of Wevelinghoven and today can still be seen on a hill system on the left Erft shore, directly opposite the former alleged private church and on the foundations of the Thirty Years' War destroyed bailey built farmhouse, which in later times that of the Wevelinghover landlords descended from the landed gentry administered by Deutz .
Around this 8 m high hill there is a younger ditch crossing, which, like the small half-timbered pavilion on the top of the hill, can be assigned to a classical garden . An arm of the Erft that used to flow around the hill can be recognized from the surrounding trees and slight depressions in the terrain. Presumably, today's bed of the Erft (which let the aforementioned arm dry out) was dug in this area by human hands in order to separate the main and outer bailey and to be able to control the access through a bridge. Today the castle site is a ground monument .
history
The castle was probably destroyed in the Cologne War in 1584 and was not rebuilt afterwards, which is indicated by the lack of its representation at the battle of Wevelinghoven on June 14, 1648. The remains of the castle, which was the seat of the Lords of Wevelinghove, are noted on a map from 1782 of the Wevelinghoven rulership , which is first documented in 1075 and then from 1138 until the family died out (1450). Its most important representative was Florence von Wevelinghoven , Bishop of Munster and Utrecht.