Müttinghoven Castle

Müttinghoven Castle
Müttinghoven Castle (aerial photo 2014)
Creation time :	14th century
Castle type :	Niederungsburg
Conservation status:	No visible remains have been preserved
Standing position :	Aristocratic residence
Place:	Morenhoven
Geographical location	50 ° 39 '21.9 "  N , 6 ° 58' 36.8"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '21.9 "  N , 6 ° 58' 36.8"  E
Height:	150.8  m above sea level NHN

Müttinghoven Castle , also called Haus Müttinghoven , is a moated castle southeast of Morenhoven , a district of Swisttal in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district .

The property consists of a baroque , two-storey manor house from the 18th century as well as more recent farm buildings. Nothing has survived from the medieval castle, but the mansion presumably stands on the old foundations.

history

There are no written sources to date about the beginnings of Müttinghoven Castle , including Muchekoven or Muytekoven .

The castle had an eventful past with numerous changes of ownership. The oldest evidence is a deed of mortgage issued in 1371 for the Vogtei by the Cologne Cathedral Monastery for Reinhard von Buschhoven . Other owners of the bailiwick were

• Johann Laner von Breitbach (1491),
• Ulrich von der Horst zu Hurt (1497),
• Wilhelm Stael von Molenbroch (1498),
• Gerhard von der Vorst-Lombeck (1513),
• Heinrich Degenhard von Schall zu Lüftelberg (1574).

From 1671 Müttinghoven is mentioned as a noble knight's seat. As owners are recorded

• Goer to Müttinghoven
• Frenz zu Mattenfeld.

Today the Müttinghoven house is owned by the Raitz von Frentz family . The property has been leased since 1998 and is used for agriculture.

literature

• 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 , p. 162 .

Web links

Commons : Haus Müttinghoven  - collection of images

• Entry on Müttinghoven Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute
• Entry on Müttinghoven Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".
• Müttinghoven in the castle archive of the Rhenish Bay
• Müttinghoven Castle near the Rhineland Nature Park

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hermann Josef Freiherr Raitz von Frentz, at Müttinghoven Castle. (No longer available online.) Family tree database of the German nobility, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; accessed on May 13, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.