House Saarbrückerwerd
| House Saarbrückerwerd | ||
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| Creation time : | presumably 13th Century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg, island location | |
| Conservation status: | Burgstall | |
| Standing position : | Nobles, counts | |
| Place: | Kleve - Schenkenschanz | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 50 '10 " N , 6 ° 6' 37" E | |
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House Saarbrücken Werd is a Outbound castle (presumably island castle ) in the city of Kleve on the site of today's settlement Schenkenschanz .
history
The island, north of Kleve in the Rhine , had different names in the Middle Ages, such as Heszehusghewert in the 13th century and worth Alpenschen from 1311 . 1257 had Dietrich Luf of Cleves , a younger son of the incumbent Klever Count Dietrich IV./VI. this island as a fiefdom of the Elten monastery . He transferred it to his son Dietrich in 1275. Since Dietrich Luf had been Count of Saarbrücken in the 1250s , the island was given the name Saarbrückerwerd, which was documented from 1343.
In 1343 the grandson of Dietrich Luf pledged his rights to the Saarbrückerwerd to the Klever Grafenhaus; In 1360 Count Johann von Kleve bought the entire legal rights to the island. An encounter between the Count Clever and the Duke of Geldern on the Saarbrückerwerd is documented as early as 1357, and a castle there was mentioned for the first time in 1364 ( huys op den wart ). 1377, in addition to the castle ( Overste hues a) bailey called. The last known written evidence for the castle dates from 1381; however, it should still have existed.
In 1586/87 Martin Schenk von Nideggen built the Schenkenschanz fortress on the site of the Saarbrückerwerd house to control the bifurcation of the Rhine. Parts of the old castle may have been included in the first fortress. At the latest as part of a modernization of the facility between 1611 and 1635, the remains of the Saarbrückerwerd house were completely removed.
literature
- Klaus Flink: Grevenward. Insula in flumine nata - an island story. On the history of the Schenkenschanz , in: Schenkenschanz. "de sleutel van den hollandschen tuin", Kleve: Boss Verlag 1986, pp. 7-20.
- Stefan Frankewitz: State castles, castles, palaces and fortress houses up to 1500 in the mirror of written documents (Historical Atlas of the Rhineland Supplement IV / 12), Bonn: Habelt-Verlag 2007, p. 64.