Rosenau castle ruins

Rosenau castle ruins
The Rosenau castle ruins
Creation time :	around 1222
Castle type :	Hilltop castle
Conservation status:	Wall remains
Standing position :	Lower nobility, clericals
Construction:	Trachyte
Place:	Koenigswinter
Geographical location	50 ° 41 '1.3 "  N , 7 ° 13' 50.3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 41 '1.3 "  N , 7 ° 13' 50.3"  E

Siebengebirge

The Rosenau castle ruins stand on the Rosenau mountain, also known as Große Rosenau ( 322.1  m above sea  level ), in the Siebengebirge nature reserve in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located in the urban area of Königswinter between the Nonnenstromberg and the Großer Ölberg .

history

It is still not known when the hilltop castle was built. It probably belonged to the Archdiocese of Cologne , because the complex fitted well into its castle system, which protected the southern flank of the archbishopric with Rolandseck Castle , Godesburg Castle, the Drachenfels Castle and the Wolkenburg .

The Rosenau castle complex and its owner at the time, Dietrich, are mentioned for the first time in a document dated February 27, 1222. Dietrich von Dorndorf came from the lower nobility and since that time has also called himself Dietrich von Rosenau ( Dietrich von Rosenouwe ) after the castle of which he was lord . After his death, his widow Agnes sold Rosenau to the Heisterbach monastery in November 1243 . In the contract, the new owner was expressly guaranteed the right to destroy the castle, which was a very unusual process.

After a second sales contract was concluded in 1249 because a daughter-in-law of Agnes von Rosenau had raised an objection, the castle was destroyed by the Heisterbach monastery around 1250. The stones were probably reused and were used as building material on the monastery buildings.

In 1885, the Rosenau residential area near the castle ruins had 20 residents in three buildings. In the period from 1896 to 1898, the then owner Anselm Bachem had a hotel built on the site; the building materials were transported from the Heisterbacher Talbahn to Rosenau via a branch track laid in May 1896 . The shell of the new hotel was completed at the end of November 1896, but due to the collapse of the western facade into the interior of the building, it could only be opened on May 4, 1898. To improve the connection of the hotel, the old Stenzelberger Karrenweg was expanded into a road and opened on April 1, 1899. During the laying of paths and the construction of a pavilion , walls were uncovered in 1902, which the Rhenish provincial curator Edmund Renard described as a "[...] elongated rectangle about 18 m wide and 30 m long [...]". After the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933, a road from Heisterbacherrott to Rosenau was built as part of a job creation measure. After the hotel was badly damaged in World War II , the current owner, IG Bergbau und Energie , had the building torn down.

The castle ruins today consist of the remains of a ring wall made of trachyte , up to six meters high , which rise up on the south side of an artificially created plateau. They were conserved in 1990/91 with the help of IG Bergbau und Energie, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the city of Königswinter.

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  Rosenau castle ruins, aerial photo (2015)

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  Rosenau castle ruins, aerial photo (October 2015)

literature

• Jennifer Göbel, Christian Schwabroh: Investigations at Rosenau Castle . In: Harald Koschik (Ed.): Archeology in the Rhineland 1991 . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1326-8 , pp. 124-126.
• Winfried Biesing: The Rosenau in the Siebengebirge. A forgotten castle . In: Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (Ed.): Yearbook of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis 1988 . Edition Blattwelt, Siegburg 1987, ISSN  0932-0377 , p. 128 ff.
• Angelika Schyma: City of Königswinter. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , monuments in the Rhineland , volume 23.5.) Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7927-1200-8 , p. 181.
• Edmund Renard : The art monuments of the Siegkreis . Printed and published by L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1907, p. 155. (= Paul Clemen (Hrsg.): Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 5, Section 4, p. 855) (Unchanged reprint Verlag Schwann-Bagel, Düsseldorf 1984 , ISBN 3-590-32120-2 ) ( Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information according to the digital terrain model and digital topographic map 1: 25,000 (available from the TIM-online map service )
2. ↑ J. Göbel, C. Schwabroh: Investigations at Rosenau Castle . P. 125.
3. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (Ed.), 1888, p. 116
4. ↑ Karl Josef Klöhs: glorious weather on Seven Mountains . Edition Loge 7, Königswinter 2003, ISBN 3-00-012113-7 , p. 155 .
5. ↑ Quoted from J. Göbel, C. Schwabroh: Investigations at Rosenau Castle . P. 124.
6. ^ Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 473 (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007).

Web links

Commons : Burgruine Rosenau  - Collection of images

• Entry on Rosenau in the Siebengebirge in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
• Entry on Rosenau in the private database "Alle Burgen".
• Picture gallery “Auf der Rosenau” 1899–2009