Wolkenburg Castle

This article deals with Wolkenburg Castle in the Siebengebirge. There is also an article about Wolkenburg Castle in Saxony.

Wolkenburg Castle
The Wolkenburg from Great Breiberg seen from
Creation time :	1118
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Burgstall
Standing position :	Count
Place:	Königswinter and Bad Honnef
Geographical location	50 ° 40 ′ 5.9 "  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 56.6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 5.9 "  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 56.6"  E
Height:	324  m above sea level NHN

Wolkenburg Castle and Drachenfels Castle, 1618

The Wolkenburg is an Outbound , d. H. a no longer existing hill castle on the eponymous, today still 324  m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Siebengebirge in the urban area of Königswinter and Bad Honnef ; the name is derived from the clouds that often cover the mountain plateau.

history

To secure the territory against the Counts of Sayn , the Archbishop of Cologne Friedrich I built the Wolkenburg Castle on this mountain in 1118 . He was not sure about the border line in the Siebengebirge and therefore did not build on the more conveniently located Drachenfels . Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden strengthened the castle. The castle was the seat of the Electoral Cologne office of Wolkenburg , which included the parishes of Königswinter and Ittenbach . Due to lack of money, the Archbishop of Cologne, Dietrich II of Moers, pledged it to the Burgrave of Drachenfels in 1425 . After a devastating gunpowder explosion in 1518, it fell into disrepair in the 16th century. It is said not to have been inhabited during the Truchsessian War . In 1740 a tower collapsed during quarrying. The quarry, which existed until 1900, was the reason to make the castle and top of the mountain disappear and to reduce the summit height by about 30 meters.

Cloud burger latit

The cloud castle consists of latite , which is or was preserved in fine-grained form, especially at the top of the mountain. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the stone mined there was used as building material for some buildings in the area .

The buildings built entirely or partially in Wolkenburger latit include the Cologne Cathedral , the castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust and the Bensberg Castle . In Bonn, the stone from the Wolkenburg was used in the construction of the Poppelsdorf Palace and the Old Town Hall . In Königswinter it was used, among other things, at the parish church of St. Remigius , at today's Siebengebirgsmuseum , at Haus Rebstock , at the former Hotel zum Goldenen Stern and, ultimately, as building material for the wine fountain .

literature

• Angelika Schyma : City of Königswinter. (= Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , Monuments in the Rhineland , Volume 23.5.) Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1200-8 , pp. 117/118.
• Edmund Renard : The art monuments of the Siegkreis . Printed and published by L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1907, pp. 115/116. (= Paul Clemen (Hrsg.): Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 5, Section 4, pp. 815/816) (Unchanged reprint Verlag Schwann-Bagel, Düsseldorf 1984, ISBN 3-590-32120-2 ) ( Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Wolkenburg  - Collection of images

• Entry on Wolkenburg in the private database "Alle Burgen".
• Entry on Wolkenburg in the Siebengebirge in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
• The story of the cloud castle

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
2. ^ Beautification Association for the Siebengebirge (ed.): Naturpark-Echo des VVS , 13th year, No. 1, April 2013, p. 6.