Henrichenburg (castle)

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Henrichenburg
Impression of space through hedges, in the background the Rhine-Herne Canal

Impression of space through hedges, in the background the Rhine-Herne Canal

Creation time : before 1263
Conservation status: Wall and wall course in the form of a hedge
Place: Castrop-Rauxel
Geographical location 51 ° 35 '58 "  N , 7 ° 18' 12"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 35 '58 "  N , 7 ° 18' 12"  E
Henrichenburg (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Henrichenburg

The Henrichenburg is a former castle in the former municipality named after it Henrichenburg , a district of Castrop-Rauxel . The place of the castle complex is today directly on the bank of the Rhine-Herne Canal east of the southern access ramp of the Wartburgstrasse bridge over the canal.

history

A document from 1263 names Arnold Ritter von Henrichenburg as the owner. The castle was located not far north of the Emscher and formed an important fortification on the southern edge of Vestes Recklinghausen on the border with the neighboring county of Mark . In 1382 the von Düngelen family took over the Henrichenburg from the Lords of Oer . In 1480 Arnold von Gysenberg inherited the Henrichenburg. His successors kept it until 1725. Then the plant was bequeathed to the great nephew of the last Gysenberger, Adolf Arnold Robert von Gysenberg, to Clemens August von Westerholt , who then called himself von Westerholt-Gysenberg.

The castle came into the possession of Baron von Boenen through marriage . He sold it in 1775 for 108,000 thalers to Princess Franziska Christine von Pfalz-Sulzbach , the abbess of Essen . After her death in 1776, the castle became the property of the orphanage Essen-Steele as part of the Fürstin-Franziska-Christine-Stiftung . Eleven years later, in 1787, the dilapidated castle was demolished.

Over time, the location of the former castle fell into oblivion. In the 1990s, the city of Castrop-Rauxel bought the site from the Fürstin-Franziska-Christine-Stiftung in Essen and planned a development with single-family houses. When construction began, the remains of the former castle were found. Construction work was stopped and the site was archaeologically examined and refurbished.

Landscape park

At the end of the archaeological work, the remains in the ground were covered with soil and a park was created on top. The layout of the walls was reproduced in the area of ​​the castle with hedges. A wooden bridge leads over a virtual moat and in the area in front of it, pavements show the former course of the walls.

literature

Web links

Commons : Henrichenburg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Fürstin-Franziska-Christine-Stiftung: Timeline , p. 2.