Haller (fortification)
| Haller | ||
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.jpg) Haller, seen from the other side of the valley |
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| Alternative name (s): | Haller Castle | |
| Creation time : | probably 13th century | |
| Castle type : | Hilltop castle | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Construction: | Humpback cuboid | |
| Place: | Monschau | |
| Geographical location | 50 ° 33 '21 " N , 6 ° 14' 29" E | |
| Height: | 452 m above sea level NHN | |
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The Haller is an old fortification structure from the 13th century in Monschau . Today the facility opposite Monschau Castle is viewed as an independent fortification structure and not as a detached watchtower of Monschau Castle.
description
In terms of type, the Höhenburg belongs to earlier tower castles , which consisted of a mighty residential and defense tower . The tower stands over a steep rock. A thick wall on three sides completes the defense concept . The walls are up to 2.5 m thick. It is believed that the tower base was carved out of the rock, as the eastern and northern bases have no edges. How the tower itself and the surrounding area originally looked is not certain due to the lack of sources. The fact that tower and castle do not belong together is proven by the different responsibilities for crew and maintenance . A testimony of a survey of the municipal rights in 1612 with regard to occupation and maintenance: The Haller, a thorn alhie zu monioie aufm berge, is an unforgettable hero by Jro Fürstl. Graces and the same ancestral Christian thoughts must be ime baw vnd custody with facility and kept watch without the burgere being burdened with it. (Translated: The Haller, a tower here in Monschau on the mountain, has been kept in an orderly state of construction, safekeeping and guarding since time immemorial by His Princely Grace and his ancestors of blessed memory, without the citizens ever having been burdened with it.)
history
Today it is assumed that the Haller is older than the castle . The space around the Haller did not offer any possibility of expansion, so the Limburgers decided to found a new one on the other side of the Rur , today's castle. On a watercolor drawing from the 17th century, which goes back to an even older engraving, the tower can still be seen with a roof . The engraving shows the conquest of Monschau in 1543. From a rent master's calculation in 1570/71 it can be deduced that parts of the Haller were removed to increase the donkey tower, the furthest (foremost) wall, roof lines (slate) were kept for reuse. From this it can be concluded that there must have been more building fabric around the tower . Haller probably also had an emergency roof, which a mayor's bill from 1695/96 shows, for roof repairs.
From the second half of the 17th century, the tower served as a powder store . A guard house was set up on the tower .
The final decline will not be dated until the 18th century; all of the images from the period show a roofless ruin , roughly in its present form.
In 1971 the artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude covered the Haller and donkey tower of the castle under the title project mon SCHAU .
literature
- Elmar Neuss: The Monschau Castle 1198–1998 . In: Contributions to the history of the Monschauer Land . No. 4 . History Association of the Monschauer Land e. V., 1998, ISSN 0939-0340 .
- Bernhard Gondorf: The castles of the Eifel and their peripheral areas. A lexicon of the "permanent houses" . J. P. Bachem, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7616-0723-7 .
Web links
- Entry on Haller Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
- Entry on Hallerburg Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stock book 1649 fol. 4: StaM 1. Apt. G 2.
- ^ Elmar Neuss: The Monschau Castle 1198–1998 . In: Contributions to the history of the Monschauer Land . No. 4 . History Association of the Monschauer Land e. V., 1998, ISSN 0939-0340 , p. 26-33 .
- ↑ Review - When Christo packed the castle. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. May 12, 2011, accessed September 23, 2015 .