Altenburg House
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| Alternative name (s): | Old castle | |
| Creation time : | First mentioned in 1330 | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, moth | |
| Conservation status: | 18th century building | |
| Standing position : | Noble | |
| Construction: | Brick | |
| Place: | Gangelt- Breberen | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 1 '33.8 " N , 5 ° 59' 49" E | |
| Height: | 60 m above sea level NN | |
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Haus Altenburg , also called Alteburg or earlier Haus Breberen , is a former manor in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Heinsberg , located in the Saeffelbach valley in the immediate vicinity of the Gangelt district of Breberen .
The castle complex , which was built on the site of an early hilltop castle (Motte) by the Lords of Heinsberg and is partly still surrounded by moats , was first mentioned in 1330 as "Hof ten berghe". It is divided into a three-sided two-storey bailey from the 17th and 18th centuries and the three-winged mansion , also from the 17th and 18th centuries, accessible via a rising brick bridge . All buildings are made of brick .
The arched gate of the passage through the outer bailey is decorated with a coat of arms stone from 1714, which shows the coat of arms of the von Blanckart family . In the wall anchors on the north side, the year 1780 is worked on the outside, on the west wing inside there is a double coat of arms of the Bocholtz and Hoensbroech families with the year 1628, and an inscription stone is walled in in the south wing showing the year 1658.
The manor house, with parts from the 17th century, received its current form in 1782 and extends over two floors over a double-T-shaped floor plan, so that the two wing structures protrude like a risalit over the central building from three window axes . The central building has a doorway, the embossed round arched house entrance portal also crowned by the Bocholtz / Hoensbroech double coat of arms. In the basement of the manor house there is a late Gothic pillar that probably comes from a previous building.
The castle is still owned by the Graf von und zu Hoensbroech family .
literature
- Paul Clemen (eds.), Edmund Renard, Karl Franck-Oberaspach: The art monuments of the Rhine province, eighth volume, the art monuments of the district of Heinsberg . L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1906, p. 493 f.
Web links
- Entry by Markus Westphal zu Breberen in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
Individual evidence
- ^ Arge der Heimatpfleger of the district Heinsberg Heinsberg (ed.), Werner Reinartz: U nsere Heimat, der Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg . Buchdruckerei Gatzen, Geilenkirchen 1956, p. 133
- ^ HA Reinick (Hrsg.): Statistics of the administrative district Aachen, third department, second half. By Benrath & Vogelsang, Aachen 1867, pp. 65, 67