Wildshausen Castle

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Wildshausen Castle
Creation time : around 1150
Castle type : Niederungsburg, moth
Conservation status: Burgstall, rest of the castle hill
Standing position : Count
Place: Arnsberg - Wildshausen
Geographical location 51 ° 23 '53.7 "  N , 8 ° 10' 12.1"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '53.7 "  N , 8 ° 10' 12.1"  E
Wildshausen Castle (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Wildshausen Castle
Former moated castle Wildshausen, moth hill and moat
Information board in front of Wildshausen Castle

The castle Wildshausen is an Outbound Turmhügelburg (Motte) in today's district Oeventrop of Arnsberg in Hochsauerlandkreis in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

As early as 1249 there is a document that reports on a transfer from the court before the free court in Wennigloh and proves a Schulten von Wildshausen. This was the first datable evidence of the existence of a main courtyard. The owners of the farm were the noblemen of Ardey . A Wilhelm von Ardey sold the office of a wood judge that was connected to the court and the trademark rights in 1310 to Archbishop Heinrich II of Cologne . The Wildshausen manor itself initially remained in the possession of the von Ardey family. All that is known is that the court was subject to tax to the Counts of Arnsberg when the County of Arnsberg was sold to the Erzstuhl in Cologne in 1368 .

There is no reliable information about the construction of the nearby count's castle; the building, however, is likely to have been of a much younger origin than the main courtyard. There are references to first buildings in the first half of the 13th century. Other researchers assume that the building was only built under the last Count Gottfried IV . In the beginning, the complex was less of a fortress than a hunting seat. In any case, there were no castle men like the other castles in the county.

In 1368 the castle, like the entire county, became the property of the Archbishops of Cologne . Two years later it was awarded to the wife of the last count, Anna von Kleve , as a widow's residence. According to a corresponding document from 1370, this had, among other things, the right to drive 100 pigs into the forest for fattening. Further documents prove that the countess had actually lived in the castle up to an unknown point in time. After her death, the facility fell back to the Cologne Archbishopric and was managed by the head winery in Arnsberg. In the following centuries, the castle mostly remained in the direct possession of the Archbishops of Cologne. On December 18, 1463 she was given as a fief to Johann III. handed over by the new house Padberg . He had sold his third of the New House in Padberg to the archbishopric and was referred from Padberg to Eversberg and then to Wildshausen with many promises. Around 1485 his son Johann IV. Von Padberg was enfeoffed with Wildshausen.

There have been violent clashes within the family on several occasions. In 1537 Rutger von Padberg, son of Johann IV., Killed his wife Margaretha von Schorlemer. His brother-in-law Stephan Schade, married to Christophora von Padberg, Rutger von Padberg's sister, became his feudal successor. In 1569 there were inheritance disputes between the two sons Anton and Rutger Schade zu Wildshausen, with Rutger killing his brother. The property later reverted to the head winery. In 1598, Elector Ernst of Bavaria gave the castle and the court as a fief to the hunter, forester and captain of the electoral bodyguard, Wolf Dietrich von Geisberg, married to Catharina vom Alten Haus Padberg, as a hereditary fief.

By the beginning of the 19th century at the latest, the facility fell into disrepair.

investment

At the base of the moth enclosure , the artificially raised moth hill was about 30 × 35 m in size. Today the moth hill is still visible as a 3–4 m high elevation. The main castle was surrounded by a 10 m wide moat . There was also a second moat surrounding the entire castle area. The moat is still filled with water on the south, north and east sides. Since the area of ​​the castle was very limited, most of the farm buildings were outside. The presumed outer bailey has not yet been located.

The castle grounds are now a freely accessible ground monument . An information board provides information about the system.

literature

  • Albert K. Hömberg : Historical news about aristocratic seats and manors in the Duchy of Westphalia and their owners . 12, 1975, ZDB ID 1327687-6 , pp. 22-34.
  • Jens Friedhoff : Sauerland and Siegerland. 70 castles and palaces. Theiss Castle Guide . Edited by Joachim Zeune . Theiss, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8062-1706-8 , p. 152.
  • Carl Kessemeier: The Ruhr villages. On the history of the village community Oeventrop - Dinschede - Glösingen . Stadt Arnsberg, Arnsberg 1982, ( Stadtkundliche Schriftenreihe der Stadt Arnsberg 14, ZDB -ID 260749-9 ), pp. 39–41.
  • Friedhelm Ackermann, Alfred Bruns: Castles and palaces and monasteries in the Sauerland , Strobel Verlag, Arnsberg 1985, ISBN 3-87793-014-X , pp. 128–129.

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